Paris Metro sign

[RavingMad]

Hello, World! This is my first time posting here. I took a picture of a Paris Metro sign that I'm rather pleased with, but I'm disappointed that half the glowing M was burned out. Can any PS wizard make the entire M light up? Thanks in advance!

 

[Eggy]

Something like this?

 

[chrisdesign]

Or like this?

 

[Eggy]

Forgot some reflections...

 

[fredfish]

To be honest I like the original that has part of the sign not working! It makes it real.

Cheers

John

 

[RavingMad]

@chrisdesign that definitely brightens it up, but I'd like to see the intense glow like the right side of the M has.

 

[RavingMad]

@Eggy, I really like what you've done – thank you! And here's where I look a gift horse in the mouth...

It seems like the face of the M on the left side should be glowing to match the glowing face on the right side; what you've done seems to be more along the top of the M. I've circled what I mean.


Also, is the reflection you added on the circle a little too green?

 

[Eggy]

Unless someone else jumps in I'll have a look at it tomorrow...its bedtime in my timezone...

 

[Eggy]

There was indeed way too much green in the picture although if you look carefully there's some green in the original too.
Here's the corrected one

 

[RavingMad]

Eggy: thank you for your photo editing! I know this particular forum isn't meant to be a tutorial, but if you can give me a broad idea of how you did what you did, I'd certainly appreciate it.

 

[Eggy]

No problem.

I made a selection (rough) of the illuminated part on his own layer, flipped it horizontally, free transform, warp and pupput warped it to match the non illuminated part.
I merged those two layers and with the clone stamp tool I made the necessairy adjustments.
With the pen tool I made a selecting of the metal rings on the left, apply a color layer and exerimented with blend modes until I found a match with the right part.
I applied a layer mask to brush away the transitions and dodged the parts in need of more reflections, burned on the other places.



Made a snapshot (ctrl+shift+alt+E) and corrected that 'new' layer where needed.

 

[RavingMad]

Eggy: Huh! And here I thought it would be difficult and complicated .

I'm fairly skilled in Lightroom but an absolute amateur in Photoshop. Thanks again for the work and the explanation!

 

[Eggy]

This is one way to tackle this correction, but as always in PS, there are many ways to do it.
The art is to make it as simple as possible...