{"id":1114,"date":"2012-11-08T06:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2012-11-08T06:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:54:22","slug":"retouching-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/retouching-2\/","title":{"rendered":"retouching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1115\" title=\"unretouch\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unretouch-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0with a couple of minutes in Photoshop (or any other retouching program)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1116\" title=\"retouch\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/retouch-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found the original a bit pasty an flat, in addition to the light flare from the dirty lens, so the first step was an overall contrast and saturation adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Next I tackled the faces covered with flare. I simply made another curves adjustment layer, matched the tone of the &#8220;flared&#8221; area to the unflared area, then masked off everywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Last step was to darken the background. Again I used a curves layer with a mask to control what was adjusted.<\/p>\n<p>As a final last step, I was not happy with a couple of the faces, so I touched them up a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it took me much longer to write this description than to retouch the photo. Yes I could fix the photo quite a bit more. There is a lot of fine tuning I could do, but sometimes a quick &#8220;down and dirty&#8221; job is good enough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PS. One of the responses in the above discussion mentioned that the background light is distracting. I agree, but removing it with the clone tool for example was a bit more work than I was willing to put into the image. Another poster had a better suggestion anyway, just crop off the top&#8230; makes a better composition anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens: \u00a0with a couple of minutes in Photoshop (or any other retouching program) I found the original a bit pasty an flat, in addition to the light flare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,6,15,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adv-retouch","category-medium","category-computers","category-lessons","category-retouching","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}