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Photoshop experts, can I ask a favor?

Zenmervolt

Zenmervolt

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Can anyone help me make the picture that I've linked below intelligible? My office did a suit day a while back and that's the collective picture of the guys who participated. Unfortunately the camera person didn't think about the backlighting and metered the shot wrong. Can anyone here help me by bringing out the foreground?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zenmervolt/Suit_Day.jpg

Thanks in advance!

ZV
 
Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Flash would of helped a bunch.
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I am aware of this. But I didn't take the picture and they wouldn't compose it somewhere else that wasn't backlit.

ZV
 
you can't photoshop what's not there.

the original's contrast came out so dark, there's virtually nothing to 'restore'. If you raise the contrast or do some fancy PS stuff, it would still look crappy...
 
Originally posted by: LanceM
How good do you want it to look? 'Cause this one is still going to look pretty bad.
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I'll take what I can get. I know it's not going to be great by any stretch.

Goku; the camera was just a little HP. Doesn't have RAW capability. What we've got is what we've got.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Can anyone help me make the picture that I've linked below intelligible? My office did a suit day a while back and that's the collective picture of the guys who participated. Unfortunately the camera person didn't think about the backlighting and metered the shot wrong. Can anyone here help me by bringing out the foreground?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zenmervolt/Suit_Day.jpg

Thanks in advance!

ZV
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Don't blame the camera taker only.... there were at least 11 of you... one of you could've had the foresight to think about the lighting!
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
http://eckliptic.theeternal.org/Suit_Day.jpg

The original picture itself was so low quality that the more you mess with it the weirder it'll look. And you'll start picking up a lot of the background. i tried to light it up a little bit and bring out a little more color. But i dunno much about photoshop stuff.
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Yeah, I messed with it and mine came out basically the same; a little brighter, slightly less contrast and saturation, and an unsharp filter to try and blend the facial tones some but the quality is still horrible.

Suit_Day.jpg

 
Originally posted by: Savarak
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Can anyone help me make the picture that I've linked below intelligible? My office did a suit day a while back and that's the collective picture of the guys who participated. Unfortunately the camera person didn't think about the backlighting and metered the shot wrong. Can anyone here help me by bringing out the foreground?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zenmervolt/Suit_Day.jpg

Thanks in advance!

ZV
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Don't blame the camera taker only.... there were at least 11 of you... one of you could've had the foresight to think about the lighting!
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Two of us did, we were voted down because the photographers and everyone else thought that the alternative was an "ugly" background.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Savarak
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Can anyone help me make the picture that I've linked below intelligible? My office did a suit day a while back and that's the collective picture of the guys who participated. Unfortunately the camera person didn't think about the backlighting and metered the shot wrong. Can anyone here help me by bringing out the foreground?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zenmervolt/Suit_Day.jpg

Thanks in advance!

ZV
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Don't blame the camera taker only.... there were at least 11 of you... one of you could've had the foresight to think about the lighting!
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Two of us did, we were voted down because the photographers and everyone else thought that the alternative was an "ugly" background.

ZV
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Eh? You have not yet established yourself as resident tech guy? At my work, if i say, they basically accept as truth.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
do you have a higher rez picture than that? That looks like it was taken from a camera phone.
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It is what it is. I'd forgotten my camera or we'd have one in RAW format to play with.

ZV
 
Ahh...shadows are usually easily brought out with PS levels, but in this case I guess the darks were "blown out" like highlights would be. Complete loss of detail, so it's going to be impossible to make it any better.
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Savarak
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Can anyone help me make the picture that I've linked below intelligible? My office did a suit day a while back and that's the collective picture of the guys who participated. Unfortunately the camera person didn't think about the backlighting and metered the shot wrong. Can anyone here help me by bringing out the foreground?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zenmervolt/Suit_Day.jpg

Thanks in advance!

ZV
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Don't blame the camera taker only.... there were at least 11 of you... one of you could've had the foresight to think about the lighting!
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Two of us did, we were voted down because the photographers and everyone else thought that the alternative was an "ugly" background.

ZV
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Eh? You have not yet established yourself as resident tech guy? At my work, if i say, they basically accept as truth.
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Dude, I'm in HR. The last think I want is to be "the tech guy" for a group for whom plugging the laptop into the docking station is a complex computing task.

ZV
 
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