Help with fence color smoothing

[Alex Gorton]

Good Morning,

I work in a small print shop and we have a customer that wants us to clean up a few of his pictures (of fences). He basically wants us to get rid of the natural blemishes (mostly color-wise, not the knots in the wood).

The JPEG that I have attached shows what he is talking about. The vertical planks towards the right side are much darker (almost blackened comparatively).

I have tried using the dodge and burn tools among a few others, but to be honest, I am still very much a newbie when it comes to Photoshop. Does anyone have some suggestions on how I could fix this?

 

[iDad]

I would take the left side of those boards copy and paste over the darker side then blend it in

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Don't know if this is what are you aiming for, just used levels to make the image lighter and the mostly dodge midtones and shadows whit a low exposure while protect tones active.



also, you can desaturate the image and apply a color overlay plus some dodge, again
until you get what you want.

there's some other methods but this will be my approach.

 

[Steve]

Some of the knots need work but is this what you're looking for?

 

[iDad]

 

[TerryC]

LOL......you guys crack me up. I need a new fence in my yard, so I'm thinking iDad's is the color I would choose.

 

[iDad]

Hey Terry I have a fence I can sell ya.LOL