Any way to rescue this picture?

[slothmeister]

Hi guys, i took this shot a few months ago and had forgotten about until i was sorting all the old pics out.

Is there a good picture in it?

Anyone with some PS skills advise on what could improve it?

 

[Zheka]

Can you give link to original?

 

[Russinating]

My attempt:

Selective brightness\contrast & curves and some cloning

 

[GSXRMovistar]

My attempt, I prefer to do this sort of stuff in Lightroom but don't have access to that at the mo.

Maybe a little OTT on the colours:-

 

[slothmeister]

Ohhhm me likey rghjones!

Any chance you can talk us through what you have done?

and for Zheka ----- http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t10/slothmeister/DSCF0050.jpg


edit... hmm that's not original, it should be a lot bigger!

 

[Russinating]

Well it's pretty much just what I said, but:

- Duplicated the layer, increased contrast, reduced brightness, and tweaked curves to achieve the graffiti look, then erased the rest of the image (path and can) from that layer.
- Did the same for the underneath layer (just the path and can), but increased contrast and increased brightness as well
- Made a separate layer of the just the can and tweaked that individually because it was too dark using the same values as the path
- Cloned out the rubbish and sticks on the floor and paint of the low wall

That's about it

 

[blueCAT]

Ah.. too slow! Here's my attempt

 

[Zheka]

 

[slothmeister]

thanks guys, me thinks i'll have to scratch up my skills on PS, they all look great.

 

[slothmeister]

any better?

 

[Helium_Junkie]

My take on it.
I have rotated the canvas so that the can is vertical, increased the contrast slightly, increased the saturation of the blue channel, then applied some slight sharpening.

There are some excellent edits in here, depending on what you want from the image, it was already pretty good imo