Would love some help..

[4labs]

I want to give this picture to my friend as a gift but I would love to know a way to sharpen it up a bit. For all you editing gurus I'd love some help.. I have PS CS but would try anything. It was shot with a 3.5-4.5 28-105mm Nikor lens 800 ISo F5 ,1/60 @ 105mm. Thnxs in advancehttp://4labs.smugmug.com/photos/16150939-M.jpg

[lr1811]

I want to give this picture to my friend as a gift but I would love to know a way to sharpen it up a bit. For all you editing gurus I'd love some help.. I have PS CS but would try anything. It was shot with a 3.5-4.5 28-105mm Nikor lens 800 ISo F5 ,1/60 @ 105mm. Thnxs in advancehttp://4labs.smugmug.com/photos/16150939-M.jpg

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[4labs]

http://4labs.smugmug.com/photos/16157406-M-0.jpg


I think it should work now

[Khaos]

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[lr1811]

I by no means no what I am doing in Photoshop, but I like to play around anyway...

[wxwax]

4labs, not an expert, but here are some suggestions.

Overall you need to raise the saturation. Also, over most of the baby's face, you need more light. And it looks a little noisy, so you might play with a discreet amount of Guassian blur to sweeten the shot and remove the noise.

First step, IMHO, would be a Curves layer to raise the brightness and contrast. Then mask off the left side of the baby's face, which is fine. Then another Adjustment Layer for Saturation. Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.

Lots of folks here at better at this than me, and may have better suggestions.

[GerryDavid]

Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.
Im a fan of leaving the previous layers in tact. Instead of merging/collapsing them, you can select the top layer *not sure if thats important to this*, select all *ctrl a* and ctrl+shift+c, then ctrl v. The ctrl shift c thing copies all the layers as if they were merged. And the ctrl v pastes it as a new layer.

By leaving the layers in tact, and never touching the background layer *duplicate if you have to, ctrl + j*, you dont loose anything, and you can go back and change something if you have to. But this does result in huge files.

[4labs]

4labs, not an expert, but here are some suggestions.

Overall you need to raise the saturation. Also, over most of the baby's face, you need more light. And it looks a little noisy, so you might play with a discreet amount of Guassian blur to sweeten the shot and remove the noise.

First step, IMHO, would be a Curves layer to raise the brightness and contrast. Then mask off the left side of the baby's face, which is fine. Then another Adjustment Layer for Saturation. Then collapse your layers. Make a duplicate copy of the image. Put a mild Gaussian Blur on it, then play with the Opacity slider to see how much you need.

Lots of folks here at better at this than me, and may have better suggestions. Thnxs for taking the time.. I have no idea how to mask off one side but everything I tried.. Still needs work but I'll get it..

[4labs]

I by no means no what I am doing in Photoshop, but I like to play around anyway...
Thnxs for teh big improvement... I think the edges are a bit too blurry for me but it is still much better than mine..

[4labs]

This is what I got so farhttp://4labs.smugmug.com/photos/16171468-M.jpg

[bfjr]

That looks better, smooth out the complextion like the one "Khoas" posted, and I think you'll be golden. :thumb

[Angelo]

I can't advise on PS but it is a great shot worthy of attention. Good luck with it.