My Skating Kid needs fixin'

[Parrotrosie]

Would anyone like to try fixing this image? It is my daughter, and it was originally shot in raw and converted to JPEG. I hate the blue dress on blue background, and is it slightly out of focus? Or just grainy? It was my first attempt with the Cannon D20, using a monopod , and whatever the hubby had the camera set to, which was apparently...poor setting for the situation.

 

[LaFoto]

Tried to do some about this photo, but you are right, she is not tack sharp to begin with, and I could do nothing about the cropped off scate at the bottom.

But here's what I tried. I'm not the big photoshop whizz, though:

 

[julie32]

Hey there,
Don't have much time at the moment, but I did something you may like and made her blue dress stand out even more. I sort of like it better this way. What do you think?

Click the thumbnail to enlarge...

 

[clee27]

i tried...hopefully it'll be okay....i don't like too much space so i cropped out the top a little and saturated it a little....let me know what you think...

1. soft filter

2. No soft filter

 

[Parrotrosie]

WOW! I tried and tried with Adobe elements to make this shot tolerable and could not! You all came up with not one, but four decent fixes!

I like the contrasted background color change - makes her stick out more.

I like the greyscale background also, it pops out the subject of my photo.

I like the soft filter, makes me look like I meant to do that...LOL, but I like what you did with the second one better - it actually looks more focused...

Did you just bring up the saturation? What else did you do? I have quite a few like this that I would like to play around with but really had no clue where to begin.

I only have adobe elements on my computer...what program do you all use?

I have been using a point and shoot camera for years and going to the cannon 20D, I am feeling pretty newbish....thanks for the help!

Thanks so much for all the great results!

 

[Parrotrosie]

OH...one more question....for the three of you....how did you outline the subject? For example, how did you get the background into greyscale w/o the subject going the same?

 

[clee27]

I like the soft filter, makes me look like I meant to do that...LOL, but I like what you did with the second one better - it actually looks more focused...

I did a little more saturation and I also did the "unsharp mask" it's great for the "more focused" look <3 xooxoxoxox have fun! I used adobe photoshop <3 xoxooxox

 

[Wyjid]

here's my attempt to combine the elements of a few of the previous posts. sign colour change. softer feel, but still sharp. slightly desaturated background. and fixed her foot as my own addition. hope you like. this was a fun one. maybe you'd like a touch more contrast/saturation but i like the colours a bit softer. you can change them if you like.

 

[Parrotrosie]

WOW...you gave her a foot! And a mighty nice foot I might add...!

You guys are great! I can see I have a lot of work to do.....

I like all the reworks, for all different reasons! Thanks!

I tried using the unsharp mask tool, but it seemed to either get grainy looking or fake looking....none of these appear that way.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[frfefarfearz]

lemme try.. hmmm

 

[frfefarfearz]

simple edit with lightroom

photoshop

 

[julie32]

I did a quick desaturate of the whole shot, then I cropped some of the top off to give it more of a a rectangular look, then I used the history brush and painted her color back in!
Photoshop CS2!

 

[MelodySoul]

Here you go.

 

[King Mango]

Wyjid... How the... :loopy:

I like elements of all of them. Wyjid's foot of course, but LaFoto's yellow background and Melody's re-work really make her stand out too.