So I have to admit I took this assignment a bit too far and got in a little over my head. When looking through images to adjust, I found one that had shadows and aimed to replace them imperfectly. My first attempt was enough to feel I could ask my wife for a handful of pointers and try again. My second and third were not much better, but I felt I was on to something. Now after try four (by which I mean starting from scratch each time) I'm willing to admit I was attempting something that neither matched our week's requirement nor my skill level. I only present these to show I was doing something this week.

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I guess I aimed too high because I felt I had enough experience with level adjustments to look for a bigger challenge. For example, I've scanned hundreds of images using both a slide and normal scanner and often these require level adjustments. But in the end I decided to make my task easier and chose the following three images to adjust - original first:

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Brightness +65, Contrast -50, Saturation +20, Lightness +8

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Brightness -50, Contrast +88, Saturation +18, magic tool wand sky and brightness -35, contrast -50

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Saturation +46, then I adjusted Brightness and Contrast but I don't have specifics
5 comments:
You did a good job Jay in correcting the shadows in the photo thus making all of them usable/showable. I do have a question though Jay - how did you remove the shadow across the face (person on lower right side) without the tone being uneven? Thanks!
Jay: Good job on the shadow picture. Yes do tell how you got rid of the shadow. We will learn a tool next week that it s possibility, but this is great. The toad photo is awesome and your face on the hiking photo stands out. On the last photo a lot of color (green particularly) was brought out by light and contrast!
I"m also wondering how you achieved removing the shadows from the face. I find that really impressive.
Sorry I missed this inquiry. Well, I suppose I removed it but not very well. First I used the magic wand to select the shadow area on face. I then increased the brightness till my skin looked somewhat normal colored. Then I increased the red and adjusted the green and blue. Maybe a little more tinkering, but I quickly (after 4 tries) realized it was a bit out of my league.
Thanks for posting how you were able to do that! It came out really well, escpecially since it was something that you haven't done before.
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