Help with touching of photo, please! (urgent)

stevegongruistevegongrui
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hi guys,



A photo of mine has been selected for jury for a photo competition here at my school.



I need to go to kinkos to print it, but before doing it, I am greatly annoyed by the white sky.



I would like to make the sky a lot greyer, like grey rainy clouds but keep the colour of the rest of the image.



I have no idea how to do this but I need to do it quite urgently.





Could someone please help?



Thanks,



here's the picture:





http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rg8s...%20Wedding.JPG





If anyone is willing to help, could you please email me at [email protected]





Thanks to all
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  • Reply 1 of 32
    tacojohntacojohn Posts: 980member
    If you have a subscription to MacWorld there is an article in this issue about "enhancing" the color of the sky in photos....



    October 2003
  • Reply 2 of 32
    formerlurkerformerlurker Posts: 2,686member
    Creative use of photoshop!



    That sky has lots of contrast against the foreground items, so a magic wand select of the entire sky is a cinch in PS. Once it's selected, you can do what you will with it.



    Unless you don't have PS, or don't know PS basics, in which case I got nothing....
  • Reply 3 of 32
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Damn it,



    I do not have a subscription of Macworld nor do I have photoshop.



    Is someone willing to help out a poor soul?



    I will be in debt for life.
  • Reply 4 of 32
    ipeonipeon Posts: 1,122member
    Something like this?
  • Reply 5 of 32
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by stevegongrui

    Damn it,



    I do not have a subscription of Macworld nor do I have photoshop.



    Is someone willing to help out a poor soul?



    I will be in debt for life.



    i'll see what i can do
  • Reply 6 of 32
    aslan^aslan^ Posts: 599member
    Gimp 2.0 was realeased and works well on OS X.



    Why not take a look at that, its a free download and can do that thing you want to do.
  • Reply 7 of 32
    ichiban_jayichiban_jay Posts: 660member
    I'm not that great with PS but this is what I came out with (I AM A NEWB ON PS). I didn't know exactly how dark or what fashion you wanted the grey, so I made 4 versions. Hope it helps some



    Here are the links, each is darker then the other:



    http://shinban.tripod.com/extras/app...n_Wedding1.jpg



    http://shinban.tripod.com/extras/app...n_Wedding2.jpg



    http://shinban.tripod.com/extras/app...n_Wedding3.jpg



    http://shinban.tripod.com/extras/app...n_Wedding4.jpg
  • Reply 8 of 32
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ichiban_jay

    I'm not that great with PS but this is what I came out with (I AM A NEWB ON PS). I didn't know exactly how dark or what fashion you wanted the grey, so I made 4 versions. Hope it helps some

    ]



    You missed some of the white sky (check between the branches of the trees and in the arches of the buildings). Make sure you deselect contiguous in the magic wand options.
  • Reply 9 of 32
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Thanks so much guys for helping.



    Not trying to be an ass, but in ipeons the entire picture looks a lot darker, yet in ichiban's the sky doesn't blend very well with the rest.



    They are already better as is, but I really want to give my best for this competition.



    Guys, thanks so much. You don't realise how much I appreciate this.
  • Reply 10 of 32
    ichiban_jayichiban_jay Posts: 660member
    eh, show's how new I am to ps well, I did it as a gradient, left is darkest, right is whitest. it was a learning experience
  • Reply 11 of 32
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ichiban_jay

    eh, show's how new I am to ps well, I did it as a gradient, left is darkest, right is whitest. it was a learning experience





  • Reply 12 of 32
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    i'm still working on it, but here's a pic for now.



    pic1



    make sure you give it chance to load--its not as pixelated as it seems at first.
  • Reply 13 of 32
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    http://psyresearch.com/images/touch-up.jpg



    How about that? I just messed with the curves a little.
  • Reply 14 of 32
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ipodandimac

    i'm still working on it, but here's a pic for now.



    pic1



    make sure you give it chance to load--its not as pixelated as it seems at first.





    That is looking good, I like the tone of it. thanks!
  • Reply 15 of 32
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I personally like iPeon's image. It brings out the most detail in the sky. ipodandimac, yours is good as well and it doesn't darken the rest of the picture as much, but it also seems to have too much of an outline around the skyline.
  • Reply 16 of 32
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Luca Rescigno

    I personally like iPeon's image. It brings out the most detail in the sky. ipodandimac, yours is good as well and it doesn't darken the rest of the picture as much, but it also seems to have too much of an outline around the skyline.



    ya like i said im workin on it
  • Reply 17 of 32
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    The problem with the ones we've seen is that the sky is actually blue in the original. There are a lot of clouds, but it's certainly not a gray day.
  • Reply 18 of 32
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    just an update--i'm making some pretty good progress with all the highlights and its looking really nice--let me know when the official deadline is (for me to give it to you ) preferably in eastern time, and i'll budget my time.
  • Reply 19 of 32
    ipeonipeon Posts: 1,122member
    Well then...



    Lets add some real clouds.







    Click here for full size.



    Just for fun I did this one.







    Full size here.



    Here's the revised version of just for fun



    Good luck.
  • Reply 20 of 32
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iPeon

    Well then...



    Lets add some real clouds.







    Click here for full size.



    Just for funI did this one.








    Italian%20Wedding%20(Grey).jpg" target="_blank">Full size here.



    nice pics!



    should i keep working or is that what the final product should look like?
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