Simviation Forum - The Photoshop Challenge...

Sep 26^th, 2005 at 4:00am

Wing Nut Offline
Colonel
Hoy-Hoy!

Gender:
Posts: 14173

Every once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet and like to spend the evening playing with Photoshop to see how good I really am. I also like to see how good everyone else is too... Grin

We've done this before, but not for a while, and not with such cool subject matter. I have the original scan available, if you want a higher resolution to work with.

So, the challenge is to take this pic from my personal collection of WWII pictures and see how you can improve it and neaten it up a bit.

Good luck and may the force be with you! Grin

HP p7-1300w
AMD Athlon II X4 650 Quad-core 3.2 Ghz
23" HP Widescreen monitor/19" Dell monitor
Windows 7 Home Premium
16 Gb DDR3 PC10600 Ram
1 Gb GeForce GTX 550Ti video card
1 TB RAID Drives

If you want to see the most beautiful girl in the world, CLICK HERE!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 5:16am

Woozy King Ex Member
Forza Lazio!!

Gender:

I might give it a go when I get home...in about 7 hours or so Grin

&&SS Lazio Website

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 6:53am

Willit Run Offline
Colonel
Jack's Back!!
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Posts: 4030

I love a good challenge!!!

&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 7:22am

Craig. Offline
Colonel
Birmingham

Gender:
Posts: 18590

very quick try. Theres alot of dirt on the picture that will take time to remove. time i dont have. Someone here will i bet.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 9:51am

Wing Nut Offline
Colonel
Hoy-Hoy!

Gender:
Posts: 14173

Let's post the replies in a separate thread, so it doesn't get too big here... Grin

HP p7-1300w
AMD Athlon II X4 650 Quad-core 3.2 Ghz
23" HP Widescreen monitor/19" Dell monitor
Windows 7 Home Premium
16 Gb DDR3 PC10600 Ram
1 Gb GeForce GTX 550Ti video card
1 TB RAID Drives

If you want to see the most beautiful girl in the world, CLICK HERE!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Sep 26^th, 2005 at 10:48am

Willit Run Offline
Colonel
Jack's Back!!
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Posts: 4030

Can you e-mail me the higher res.?
cyates@transaxle.com or gcy229@comcast.net

Thank you!!

&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Sep 30^th, 2005 at 8:43am

USMC_BEANS Offline
Colonel

Gender:
Posts: 164

Hell Kev, I knew you were an old tanker, but not that old!! Grin

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Oct 1^st, 2005 at 12:49am

gw Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Posts: 175

I'm not very good with any graphics editor but here's a question for someone who is.

It seems like brightening the image might bring out detail in the dark area at the bottom but wash out other areas. Would it be possible to break the photo into sections like the dark area at the bottom and the driver and enhance those areas separately?

gw

Cessna N7654 ready to copy IFR clearance to KSMF.&&&&Cessna N7654 cleared to KSMURF as filed.&&

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #8 - Oct 1^st, 2005 at 1:07am

Wing Nut Offline
Colonel
Hoy-Hoy!

Gender:
Posts: 14173

A better way to do it is to see if your program has a Gamma feature in it. This will actually change the exposure of the shot to something more reasonable. I run Photoshop CS and Imageready, and Photoshop does not have it, while Imageready (also by Adobe) does...

Failing that, you can select the area you want in most programs and change the settings for that particular area...

HP p7-1300w
AMD Athlon II X4 650 Quad-core 3.2 Ghz
23" HP Widescreen monitor/19" Dell monitor
Windows 7 Home Premium
16 Gb DDR3 PC10600 Ram
1 Gb GeForce GTX 550Ti video card
1 TB RAID Drives

If you want to see the most beautiful girl in the world, CLICK HERE!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #9 - Oct 1^st, 2005 at 6:03pm

beaky Offline
Global Moderator
Uhhhh.... yup!
Newark, NJ USA

Gender:
Posts: 14187

Her's a quick attempt with the GIMP, just using Contrast/Brightness and a little sharpening:

The problem with this image is that the top part is way more exposed than the bottom. so I adjusted it in sections: the fender down, then the turret, then the subject... all so he wouldn't be so washed-out.
Didn't have much luck with the gamma adjustment, but that's still new to me...
Looking again, I see I over-sharpened him a little, and probably should've airbrushed the edge between him and the sky...
but not bad for about 5 minutes' work... Grin

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #10 - Oct 2^nd, 2005 at 11:28am

Rifleman Offline
Colonel
" Full size A/C are just
overgrown models ! "
Tropical island in the Pacific

Posts: 6622

Need more res........can't enhance when basic info is missing......one can only guess so much as to how things should look.......

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #11 - Oct 2^nd, 2005 at 3:02pm

Tweek Ex Member

Here's my attempt. I've brightened the lower half of the tank, and darkened part of the upper half and the chap inside! Also, I've quite successfully removed a few of the major scratches on the photo (theres quite a big scratch running from left to right)

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: