Dolphin shot-can it be changed for the better?

sacd · 12-05-2006, 7:59 PM

I took this last Friday while on holiday in Majorca. Bewfore I get it printed can anyone improve it in photoshop? I have a copy but it's way complicated so it would be nice to have a bit of input first.
I've only had the camera a month so go easy on me ok?

Thanks guys!!

bowenjones · 12-05-2006, 10:17 PM

That's a pretty good shot mate

I had a little go at touching it up for you. I used Paint Shop Pro X but I think the same method will apply to photoshop. Bear in mind that I was working from your resized image so the finished picture will show more artifacts than if I was using the full size image.
I first opened one of my archived shots of a sky scene in paint shop pro (psp). I resized that to the same size as your picture and saved it as a new image. I then opened your picture in psp and copied it by right clicking on the image and selecting copy. I then opened the the resized sky picture again and pasted the copy of your pic on top as a new layer.
As the sky in your picture was plain and bright, it made the next bit easy. I selected the bright areas using the magic wand tool and then used the eraser tool to erase those areas therefore exposing my sky shot underneath. Once done, I merged the layers into one picture. I then cropped the picture to remove parts of the top, right and bottom a bit before increasing the contrast and saturation a little. I then added a border and applied a little unsharp mask.

Bristol Pete · 12-05-2006, 10:56 PM

Good effort by Bowen and a great initial shot. Here is my effort - I used picassa to raise saturation, slight crop to loose rihght hand side and sharpened it. Then ran it through noiseware to clean it up. Dont know how to odo the skies like bowen so I think his pips that!

sacd · 13-05-2006, 6:58 AM

Thanks guy's I like what you have both done. The sky in particular looks great.
Any chance you could send me that sky archive shot so I can have a go myself?
My e-mail is frjames@totalise.co.uk

bowenjones · 13-05-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by sacd

Any chance you could send me that sky archive shot so I can have a go myself?

No problem mate. Picture sent

Bristol Pete · 13-05-2006, 12:16 PM

Can I have a copy of the sky too please?

bristolpete2002@yahoo.co.uk is my web mail that rarely gets used due to spam so could you send it there please?

Thanks,

Pete.