tough photo ,thechinque ideas welcomed

[egosbar]

hi everyone , just trying a photo for my son in law , the sign is all over the place , ive tried to clone some of the pattern , ive tried exposure burn at 70% on the white parts of sign which helped but it still looks awful

some techniques you would use in a case like this id be very interested to have a look at and practice

 

[Dataflow]

how does this look?


basically all i did was smooth the image on a duplicate layer.
then added the detail back using the hightpass filter plus some color correction

 

[egosbar]

the boy looks great , i hadnt started any work on the color or the pig yet , i was focusing on the sign in the backround , i was hoping to find a technique to tidy that up, also the pig looks like hes back end dissapears , in the original there is a dark shadow in that area but i can work on that later

 

[Tom Mann]

At the risk of stating the obvious, there are a lot of problems in this image that good photographic technique could have prevented. Doing a proper job of fixing them (eg, reconstructing the blown areas of the sign, the hind end of the pig, etc.) will take much more time than I'm willing to invest, but here's a quick pass over the image to try to improve the overall appearance without getting into a lot of detail work.

HTH,

Tom M

 

[NemesisWorks]

Man he looks like Nicolas Cage

 

[egosbar]

yeah mate i didnt do the photography he did in the night with an iphone , i agree most of the pics im getting asked to do something with have poor photography

good job though thanks for the effort , it does look a lot of work i think

 

[sprucemagoo1]

I often think using the colour replacement tool on areas that have had colour warped is usually a good idea, but that is just my opinion.

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[egosbar]

I often think using the colour replacement tool on areas that have had colour warped is usually a good idea, but that is just my opinion.

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awesome improvement , thanks it was out of my league but dam it shows what you can do even with a poor picture

 

[ALB68]

This my first post here. Here is my shot at this photo. Added a border in addition to other manipulations.View attachment pig%201-1.psd[

 

[ALB68]

My apologies. Here is the JPG in lieu of the PSD.

 

[MikeMc]

Tom.....you seem to have the best of the bunch. Was that PS or magic filters?