I have a picture that I like but wonder if it can be made better?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12918935@N00/430355238/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12918935@N00/430355238/
Any one want to show how better than can do
- Thread starter Rooky007
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Jimmy_Lemon said:You could really give it the works in photoshop and crop, blue the sky, green the grass and trees and tweak the building....giving you something like this:
You can download the Photoshop file (.PSD) HERE (about 4mb - please say if you downloaded it so I can delete it)
For stuff like this the colour balance in Photoshop is you friend
Download wont work mate
And that picture is fab how do you change it all do you have to select what you want changing or does it all change the same time?
Jimmy_Lemon said:oops fixed the link to the download now - wish I could spell
The way I do it is to make a couple of copies of the same image (select all, copy, paste) so you end up with 4 or 5 layers in photoshop with the same thing on each. Then select the top layer and go to Image>ajusmtents>colour correction and shove the blue slider upto the top (so it makes the whole image fairly blue) then using the eraser tool rub out anything you dont want to be blue - this will show you the original image where you are erasing (as thats whats on the layer below)...repeat this process for the next layer, but now try green...and make the grass and bushes look a bit greener. Then use the eraser to rub out the church, so again it shows through to the layer below. Now you have a green "mask" at the bottom and a blue mask at the top...so all I did next was use the Brightness & Contrast tool to brighten and contrast the church building itself a bit..... think thats about all I did. Cant remember.
Not sure if you can do all of this in elements - never used it, but imaging you can do most of that as its fairly basic (not 100% sure you can do colour correction).
I go and try and find a trailware of Element for Mac if you find it give us a shout
