work needed?

[moonstar777]

can anyone make it sharper and perhaps lighter....or do whatever else u think needs to be fixed.....

[limecity]

i think most can be done is just use the sharpen tool in photoshop. not sure. maybe other sifu can ^^

and need to auto level too

[ShaolinTiger]

It's light enough but the problem is it's not soft, looks like shutter speed was too low and you've got handshake.

This is about as sharp as I can get it on low res image.

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[noordin]

ST has done a great job, considering the constrains.

[noruazumi]

ok, here's my quick try. not sure if this work or not.
the low-resolution photo is tricky.
and a lot of highlights area too.
and this photo also a bit blurry due to slow shutter speed.


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[moonstar777]

thanks one and all for the tips....:D....

[noordin]

Wah......Zumi cleaned the face as well! :D

[noruazumi]

ok, another one. nothing much different from the previous one.
just a little tweak here and there.
i still can't find a way to make this photo looks more interesting. :(
btw, here is it.
on left is before, the right one is the after.

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Wah......Zumi cleaned the face as well! :D
thanks to SKII filter plug-ins for photoshop. :D
just kidding.... hehehe.

[leschang]

my try:
burn and dodge tool mostly, before that i converted it to Lab and sharpen on L channel.
contrast on skintone was reduced by using screen layer blending.

[Freaky]

A pic like this is hard to fix, esp the blur, so i'd just apply a PS filter to it. sumtimes can get good effect and salvage a good pose.
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[moonstar777]

i like noruzumi's one.... its really brings out the eyes and the skin looks great....thanks for the comments and the help..:D:D

[rae128]

Remove blemishes.. smoothen face(blurring)... sharpening (overlay blending mode of desaturated High pass filter)... whitening eye(dodge tool)... tune down bg highlight(burn tool).. increase the saturation.... n trying the dave hill effect... but as usual i fail on it... heheh.. thats all i remember.

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