"adrian kinzy" wrote in message
I just received my wedding photo and they are horrible! 40% are very dark, especially the ones that me and my bride are at the altar. The
photographer
has agreed to refund me 50% of what I paid in addition, giving me a photo
cd
of the entire wedding photos. My question is:
Could Photoshop fix photos that have a very dark background?
Probably, but it depends on how bad they are, and the quality of the images otherwise (focus, etc.)
If so,
could a guru give me some instruction how to do so.
Some of us do this stuff for a living…. don’t know what your day job is, but could you teach us to do whatever it is you do at a professional level in a few minutes in a newsgroup? (Not being snide, just honest. This is not a cookie cutter process…it is a highly intuitive sort of thing that relies on
experience and a high level of skill with a specialized set of tools. )
These are pictures of one of the most important moments in your life. You don’t get a "do over" on these….
Pick 2 or three that are really important to you and spend the refund money on professional editing, then go ahead and try to tackle the rest yourself. Work slowly, pay attention to all the details, and when you are done take a disk to a professional printing service
When you want to begin
Never work on the original, make a copy
Don’t save images as JPG’s
Buy a copy of Katrin Eismann’s
Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, 2nd edition.
and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers:
A Professional Image Editor’s Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh & PC By Martin Evening
Read them cover to cover. Pick one image and try to use
what you learned. Compare your result to the professional retouch. Read the books again. Start over and do the repair again. Make notes as you work. What did you do? What settings
did you use?
Now try applying those settings to each of the new photos