Photoshop help

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

No prob.... yes its all good...

[riffer]

Here you go fella.

I've tried a bit of a different tack here.

Copied the original pic into a new layer. Run a dust and scratches filter over the new layer, and then masked the entire layer out. Then using the airbrush I've selectively brought part of this layer back in.

This way you don't get the blurring and posterisation this filter tends to produce.

A bit of a Levels filter to remove the yellow cast.

Then airbrushed in a new sky as the old one was over-exposed and you didn't have any decent detail there either.

I would have attached the .psd but its 51.5 MB.

[WRT]

Nice one Riffer, good effort there, in particular a great job of the tank and guard.

[zeocen]

I can do anything others do in Photoshop in CorelPaint... (a many times quicker and easier than I would do in photoshop.. I have prooved it time and again) I have be using it since version 3 and been a graphic artist for 15 years... Corel and Photoshop have been battling it out for years... but thats another story... my point is get to know how to use the application (any application) most people don't before they say it cant do this or that...

I have restored 1000's of photo's in the past... some you would think how can that be done. Designed 1000s of stuff for clients... Don't fall for the brain washing advertistments that this is the industry standard... thats like saying helen clarke is gorgous because she is PM... and then believing it... or mac is better than windoows and linux is better than both... its a load of crap. I get sick of hearing it... My bike is better than yours... its red so it goes faster...

Just to let you know at the time I did my version I was on my Linux system and did the version I posted in The GIMP... now thats one crazy difficult app to learn but again a skilled user can do anything that photoshop users and corel users can do... The version I posted was a quick 5 minute touch up... (including realising oh crap you wanted the rusty bits gone too re-doing and re-uploading... )




I be waiting and expecting the hate mail, and comments... hehhehehe

Yeah, it's more of the users ability and knowledge of the software rather than the actual software itself. I was in the photo restoration business for 3 - 4 years and in that time I found the only thing that made photos better wasn't the software, it was just how long you're prepared to work on them :P

We used a variety of other programs than just photoshop, but the majority were definately done in photoshop.