Before & After - My cat Tandi

[Jessicayla]

Hiya guys. Been a while. I've been caught up with my jobs and playing Skyrim. Decided to take a break and edit a photo that I've been wanting to for a while. Caught this one really quickly while I was setting up a rat photo shoot. Tandi was on the ground while the lighting set up was much higher up, so obviously it was underexposed. Nothing photoshop can't fix though! Before:

After:


I wanted to make it more interesting color wise, but wasn't sure what to do. Feel free to edit your suggestions and post them here

Some things I'm not happy about - grainy quality because of the lightening and the loss of detail in the darker black parts of her fur. Other than that, I'm happy with it!

 

[Jessicayla]

And here's another. Decided to change the background color on this one too.. that background I used is pretty ugly.

Before:


After:

 

[IamSam]

Hey Jessica, I lightened Tandy up with a curves adjustment layer. I then used the Brush Tool on the layer mask to bring back some of the darker areas. Kinda of like a dodge and burn.

Using the inside of the ears as a guide, I added a little color (mostly red) with a Hue & Saturation adjustment layer.


edit: darkened her a little

I always love these types of threads so I can see how everyone else is making adjustments! Thanks!

 

[Inkz]

Hey Jess...

Happy Christmas. A very dark image to start with. But you managed to sort that.

Had a go myself.

 

[IamSam]

Almost the same adjustment on the second photo. It's hard to judge her natural color.


edit: darkened her a little

 

[Jessicayla]

Very nice adjustments! I'm interested to see more!

I like the details that you kept Sam, but she is a pretty dark cat so the black parts seem too light to me.