Touch up help please!

kaylahunsader · May 30, 2011

These are not my best photos by far I don't think, but any how.....I want to make them look the best I possibly can. Any advice on anything I could do to them in photoshop. Also, feel free to touch them up yourself and then let me know what you did. Look forward to any comments!
Ps. Which do you think is best, or the best 3?

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This one is out of focus, but I want to keep it. Any suggestions on how to make it look decent, or cool?

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Eventer · May 30, 2011

I like the ideas, but looks as thought they are tinted a greenish colour? Reflection from the dresses or surroundings, not sure probably easily fixed. They all look a bit OOF too.
I like number 5 best, the colours are definatly the best for sure, its not the sharpest but I still like it.
Have you edited them at all?

KmH · May 30, 2011

kaylahunsader said:
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I corrected the white balance, cropped a bit, sharpened here and there, added some light to compensate for the 'raccoon eyes' (dark eye sockets) caused by not using fill lighting, adjusted the mid-tone contrast some, and gave it somewhat of the popular 'vintage' or slightly faded look by not converting my edit from the ProPhoto RGB color space (the editing color space I use), to sRGB. Oh I used ACR and CS5 to do the edits.

kaylahunsader · May 30, 2011

Wow! I apsolutly love the look of this now! Thank you!!!

kaylahunsader · May 30, 2011

The only editing I have done is trying to fix the greenish tint a bit, but I can take some more out to try and fix that. What is OOF?

CCericola · May 30, 2011

Out Of Focus.

clanthar · May 30, 2011

Hi,

Your camera was set to auto white balance and you're working with the camera JPEGs. Auto white balance doesn't work. It never has and it's not going to any time soon. You only have to compare the girls and their clothes between photos 2 and 3. This will keep happening to you as long as you keep the camera wb set to auto. Check your camera's features and if it permits custom WB get one of these: Michael Tapes Design - LensAlign - WhiBal - IJFR - WhiBal Certified Gray Card for White Balance If it doesn't, get a camera that does.

Without the additional enhancements that Keith made -- just so you can see the color:

Joe