Can someone help me make this pic look better?

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Permalink Reply by Cyn on August 6, 2010 at 4:10pm

ahhh making something look better is always how it looks to the artist doing it :) In my eye this photo has some nice elements, but a couple of distractions too.

The first thing I did was clone out the hand bar in the front and what looks like a shoe in the back > then I cropped a little closer to put more emphasis on the subjects > brightened > boosted the contrast > desaturated > sharpened > added a slight brown tint> put a shadow under the dog's nose so the white didn't blend with her face >added a dark edge vignette > softened the edges

So, it may not look any better, but it was fun to do

Permalink Reply by Cyn on August 6, 2010 at 8:50pm

thank you Victoria, your opinion is appreciated and welcomed!

Permalink Reply by Lavpreet Kumar on August 7, 2010 at 2:15am

Thanks a lot for the wonderful work done Cyn. Would love more experiments being done with this pic.
Thanks Victoria for your comments too..

Permalink Reply by Doug Weise on August 8, 2010 at 5:37pm

Nice Job Cyn, I like it a lot. I tried something a little different.

Basically I brought up the brightness, then removed the chrome bar. I cropped the show out of the shot altogether and added a Cutout layer above the original photo then reduced the opacity by about 50%. Unhappy with the texture of the carpet I added some noise to try to cover it up. I don't know that I have improved the original either but I had fun too.

Permalink Reply by Misty Mountain Photography on September 6, 2010 at 1:21pm

I like the colors too , just a simple light issue that could have been prevented by using a flash. All I did was adjust the light and give it a little color boost , it's tough to work on such a small photo but these are my results.