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Old 11-16-2009, 05:47 PM
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Hello,

I took this at a Halloween party a few weeks ago and the lighting was really bad so as I was adjusting my camera settings I took this photo and at first was going to trash it, but I love the expressions on the faces of the mother and daughter in the top left.

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I tried to adjust the photo in Photoshop with curves, levels and the exposure adjustments and then it looked really grainy so I added the Orton Effect on as well. I like it much better but I'm still not really happy with it... any suggestions on how to improve this shot, or should I just trash it all together?

After

Thanks!
~ Rebecca

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Old 11-16-2009, 10:32 PM
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Doing the Orton should have pretty much removed the grain. BUT, cropping down an image and then enlargig it will produce distortion.
Before you do anything do a noise removal step. Crop your image and try using several layers of using the unsharp mask. Do it little by little and it may help
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