Re: [photoshop-beginners] Slide help neede

John,

It appears that overall there is a slight contrast problem.  There appears to be a yellowish white haze over the entire image.

If you increase the contrast about 10 - 20% the background does not look as bright and the people in the foreground look a bit better as well.

You can use the L channel of LAB if you do not want to mess up the color too much but you would have to make a copy of the image, convert it to LAB color space and adjust the L channel using a curve or just increasing the contrast of the L channel. There are other tools uyou can try as well but the contrast appears to be the real problem.

 

Greg Groess
greg@curvemeister.com

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From: "johnb163@bellsouth.net" <johnb163@bellsouth.net>
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 3:50 PM
Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Slide help neede

 

I am scanning old slides and need some advice with PS. Here is a link to a jpg (the original is a large TIF file) of one of the photos.

http://www.pbase.com/jhb_photography/image/144620230

The background to too bright. I want to darken the background, while not touching the girls. I thoght about using the "burn tool", but thought someone might know of a better way.

Any suggestions?

JohnB

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