Photo correction issue?

hi ,
thank you... I like that sunset picture... real nice.... i am keeping it in my files, hope you don't mind...

What NL mentioned bout noise can help... one thing I found was after i did some adjustment the girls picture wasn't bad and maybe doing a noise adjustment on just the boys. (use select/masking technique to isolate) ... maybe enough.... but you may need t0 use the blur tool or the brush tool and take care of some of those discolored pixals in the face area of the boys..
note: a lot of this depends on how much time you want to spend cleaning it up...... smiling...

also as you get more skilled with masking and such.... you might want to look at using gradients.... now the background was real nice but after editing noticed you lost a lot of richness in the sky trying to bring out the mountains... what you might try is masking the backgound and using a gradient adjustment on a seperat layer and adjust that to where you keep the color richness of the sky but yet bring out the mountains a little bit more...!!

final thoughts.... i have been to perth and darwin (missed out on going to sidney) ..... had a great time there....... and you aussies definitely love your beer.. smiling.....

tooninoz said:

Spent a bit of time following what you both said, and tho' it isnt brilliant by any stretch......

Its a bit speckled and I tried to get rid of that and clean it up a bit, but I figure that;
1. It's an improvement, and in some way, it looks better than with a flash?
2. Its 6am on a sticky, humid morning so it kinda suits that look!

Guys, I cant thank you both enough. My daughter is just stoked and I was also able to apply the same to a cpl of other pics too. If you were in Aussie I'd buy you a beer, but you'll just have to do with this;

Cheers, toon