Anyone wanna help a brother out?

[scootermcq]

I know one of my weaknesses is Photoshop.... I'm using only about half the power of the program that I could be harnessing. Here is the thing..... it's my parents 50th anniversary, and I want to touch up a photo from their wedding. I know I can do more, but here is a before and after example. Any of you retouch artists want to help point me in the right direction?

[ishootRAW]

The retouching is good. then I would start with color correction and contrast. If you want to PM me, and maybe a full size copy I will see what I can do.

[autofocus]

Scott, for the fun of it I played around with it (always up for a challenge) All done on an uncalibrated laptop (so who knows?)..started with auto color, a lot of selective color adjustments thereafter..a little vignette added to deemphasize that background. It has the potential to be worked and fixed, but will take a fair bit of work. I'm not saying this would be the finished product, but I believe the overall tones are a bit better after a few of these steps

[Izzy]

I need an unadulterated scan of the pic. Then I can show you what magic can happen. I am guessing that this was shot on Kodachrome, I think I can emulate the true colors from the day it was shot. I am willing to do it if you send me a link to the pic.

[scootermcq]

Nice improvement Vince.....

Sent you a PM Izzy.

[CurlyCorry]

Originally Posted by scootermcq

Nice improvement Vince.....

Sent you a PM Izzy.

sure hope ya post the results.... we want to see!!! LOL

[Izzy]

Putting the magic on it right now. Working at 200% ( I work at pixel level) - Stevie Ray turned up loud

I think I should have this done today - Starting to despeck the clothing.

What size do you want this printed at when I am done? I will produce one at scan size and one at whatever size in Onone.

[Izzy]

Here is the retouch. I worked at 200%. Despecking this image was the toughest part. Cleaned up clothing and - blah blah blah. Like Dave Hill explaining his work flow.




Here is a link to the finished tiff file. If you need it resized just say so and I can resize within reason.

http://www.thomasneubauer.com/images/Scan002-2.tif

And the jpeg

http://www.thomasneubauer.com/images/Scan002-2.jpg

Crits are welcome. I think I did a pretty good job on it. Wish I could have killed the color cast but I feel that adds to the nostalgia of the image. The trick it to never add anything to the image while correcting it. Got rid of the glare on the hanging brass plate. It was like a burning highlight and detracted from the over all picture.

[ishootRAW]

here is my entry. I took izzy's and color corrected, and some magic. Then ran through perfect resize. Some people bash PR. but I really like it.

http://matthews-photography.co.cc/Scan-.jpg

[CurlyCorry]

Originally Posted by ishootRAW

here is my entry. I took izzy's and color corrected, and some magic. Then ran through perfect resize. Some people bash PR. but I really like it.

http://matthews-photography.co.cc/Scan-.jpg

I shoot: Your color correction is a bit pink on my screen. Great job Izzy.