Need some help

[RL168]

Hello,

This is a picture I took a few years back with my old digital camera. Here is the original photo.

I increased the contrast in photoshop and got this.

I noticed there is this blue tint on the background. Anyone know how I can decrease that bluish tint and make the background sharper? Or if you have any suggestions to make this picture better, please let me know. I am using photoshop element 4.0.

Thanks!

 

[mr e]

I probably would've selected only the background and adjusted the blue levels to reduce the amount of blue, then you can sharpen as well without messing up the foreground.

I don't know about Photoshop Elements 4.0 specifically, but that's how I'd do it in general

 

[PNA]

Nice shot....However I'd try cropping off the sky completely, not level and too much contrasting differences.

 

[RL168]

mr e & PNA,

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it out in photoshop.

rl168

 

[darich]

I took the liberty of downloading your image and having a play with it on PS CS2 since your images are ok to edit.

Here's what i got after about 5 minutes worth of editing.

i adjusted the levels
changed to lab colour, selected channels then sharpened the lightness layer.
converted back to rgb.
used an orange warmup filter with 25% intensity.
rotated the image slightly to level the horizon then cropped out the sky and corners of the image where i had blank canvas visible.
saved the image.

 

[PNA]

Now that's what I had in mind......nice!

 

[darich]

Now that's what I had in mind......nice!

Thanks!