artifacts

I need just a bit of help with an image that I am trying to correct. Am having no problem with the color levels or the brightness/contrast. My problem is that after I have adjusted all the needed levels, brightness/contrast, etc I am stuck with an image full of what I call artifacts. I have tried everything I can think of to clear this up but obviously there is something I am missing. Hope someone is able to help me with this. The image that is posted is the original that has been untouched.

[URL=http://renegadewarriors.com/images/artifacts.jpg][/URL]

Thanks,
Elf

Probably one of the worst photos I have ever seen. The long and short of it is - you can't polish a turd.

Count this photo as pretty much unsalvageable and then learn to use the camera as best as you can. It looks like the picuture was taken in low light and that no flash or lighting was used.

What resolution is the original piccie and what was the camera that you or the taker of the photo was using?

Your best bet is to convert the piccie into various formats like cmyk, lab and rgb and see if any of the colour channels contain most of the 'bad' information. If so replace the offending channel with the lightness channel from the lab copy.

As I say, making something from nothing is not possible, but good luck trying.

Well now that really is a bad image (the quality). My guess is it is from the web ! Do you really want it this size? Well resizing the image will reduce some of the roughness. Also maybe the dust and scratches filter from the nise filter may help. But most likely it may not help all that much. Sorry i cannot help more!



-TheWatcher
DragonFrost Graphics

Oh you might want to try some iso noise plugins for reducing some of the noise, but in all honesty you will be whistling in the wind. I would suggest methods such as blurring some of the pixels to reduce noise, but the damage is so prevelant that it will be next to useless.