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Please find this case study that covers some of the basic techniques that can help enhance a photo or correct some of the mistakes made during a photo shoot.Mosly oriented towards begginers.
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Author: ~silentkeystroke
Poor shooting conditions, wrong setting on your camera, or shot taken in too much of a hurry can result in a photo that does not meet the expectations you had while standing there.
This articles gives a few basic Photoshop tips to enhance such a photo.
Thank you!
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Hello!
I've featured this tutorial in my journal !
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your attention to detail and your cleaning up of the distractions in the image was really good, but i actually like the colours of the "before" image better. The contrast you set was way too high, making the colours look garish and harsh. You turn the lovely soft orange typical of a sunset and the dusky blue of the sky into yellow and turqoise.
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I must admit that I am addicted to your tutorials! All of them are excellent and this one is no exception (I now think of all of the photos I've thrown out that could've been improved using these techniques >_<
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very nice though i think it looked better before the contrast beef^^ maybe 30 contrast max i wouldn't put more, but of course to each his own^^
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it says "file not found" - probably this tut got lost during the dA server crash like so many others from 2004 and 2005
therefor you might want to check your other submissions as well
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what a difference.... i also prefer levels to brightness&contrast, but it's a good tutorial anyway.. altough i try to use these techniques as few as possible
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WoW!!!!! you turned a really rubish picture into well a master peice!!! I'm so glad i found this page!!! thank you so much!!!
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I've been dieing to know how to do those high contrast dark room picture alterations!!! 
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I usually prefer changing the Levels to Brightness and Contrast, gives a much better result.
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I really despise the amount of manipulation done to photos before posting around here, like this one could be. It makes it almost fake, IMHO.
Good article. I may use some of the techniques with some photos that didn't turn out well, as you suggested.
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We are going to release a tutorial on borders very soon actually
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The final image isn't at all what you saw or what you tried to capture.
It is a photo-manipulation, or at very minumum darkroom photography. I believe that you shouldn't alter images more than to correct slight mistakes. With the effect you put in, I would say definitely manip, because there is no way I can easily think of to do that in a darkroom
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well i like some things about it...
but i like the picture after toning more then after the lighting part...
but hey! nice tut.!
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Personally, I don't like the end effect. Although dramatic, it is very unnatural and the coloring is very harsh. The blue could have been increased without washing out the red so much. Using that contrast washed out a lot of important parts. The last paragraph said the purpose was not to make another photo...but the changes did make another photo instead of just enhancing the photo that was present.
My recommendations for the coloring and contrast would be efficiently learning curves.
Howver, these are my opinions and people have very different perspectives and likes.
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Short, straight to the point, my style for tutorials.
Only con: Brightness/Contrast, as mentioned earlier.
Would it be possible for me to submit tutorials here?
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Yes of course. Just send us a note with the list of ideas you have or a link to existing tutorials that you think would be hepful and we can include them here with the photo-class layout.
Thanks a lot for the offer!
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another great article.
nothing really new, but it gives hope to hopless pictures. i should stop deleting photos and try to fix them.
cant wait for the next article !
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thanks for this guys...i'll read it and return and comment...
but thanks in advance for doing this... 
greatly appreciated by the manip-challenged among us...
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really good tut. Definately helps to turn an amaturish gallery photo into a work of art. Good job.
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Damn, I pressed fav instead of download.
Any way to un-fav it?
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hit 
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Great write-up! It's simple but very effective, thanks!
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Yet again you've presented a great tutorial that is easy to understand. These projects are really helping me learn Photoshop - thanks!
~ Casey
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Very nice and interessing tutorial. Very well done too!
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Even though I'm not a beginner, this is still an awesome article. I'm glad you guys finally updated with another.
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very helpful tutorial, and very helpful comments! photoshop is a huge program and can be very intimidating to beginners. these tutorials make it very easy to learn quickly. thanks!
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I enjoyed it a whole lot i think it is very helpful.
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I'll make my negative point first: Brightness/Contrast is a terrible command, and I hate to see anyone use it, let alone recommend it (even to beginners). I'd encourage anyone to spend five minutes learning Levels to accomplish the same kinds of results with much less destruction to what's right about the source pixels.
But there's plenty good here! It's a great "start-to-finish" task-oriented exercise, and I'm especially crazy about the "look through my eyes" kind of narrative as is used soooooo well here. (I'm working on one of these myself, actually.) It's often just as important/too often left out in a tutorial to share sensibility as well as technological methods, so this gets high marks.
Nice tone of voice, well illustrated, and I always admire brevity (as its my own greatest failing, 
Nice use of the Color Balance command too. I'd "add" to the tutorial to make sure that "Preserve Luminosity" button is checked "On," or tried both ways.
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Wouldn't it be cool for us to contribute? I'm currently writing a tutorial aimed into my gallery, but ~ photo-class is a centralized account available to a larger audience... hm.
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hehe... damn, good thing i read comments before commenting, i was about to say the exact same thing.
do i sound as a fan of yours now?
although i did like the tone of the tutorial, and the result, i would have used several layers, and of course levels/curves to play with the contrasts and colours.
hehehe.
love.
...
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Well you know I would normally never care to bash anything or anyone, but Brightness/Contrast is just so wretched that it's got a permanent place on my short list. I've been thinking about it since last night, and I do believe it is the only feature I would prefer to see removed from Photoshop.
Or I suppose it could be retooled, to perform its operations at a quality approximating Levels. But just something to take the destructive potential away from the user who can't see how awful it is. And that's not knocking any user or their eyes. Rather, it's that continuous tone images have a lot of subtlety within them that's hard for anyone to actually "see." Therefore, a command that destroys exactly that subtlety seems subversively dangerous.
However, I DO know this tutorial is written for beginners. By every other standard, I think it's great! (And it makes me even more excited about the "mid-level" one of comparable nature I should be delivering within a couple of weeks, cause they're very thematically similar. But, of course, this one scores huge points for its brevity, clarity, and vision toward helping beginners specifically.)
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have you ever thought about posting a tutorial (or more than one) to ???
would be a perfect thing...
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oh well... IMHO doesn't totally live up to Photo-class level. Anyways it's good you uncover basic techniques for those who are new to digital photography.
But i'm really looking forward to articles and tutorials on more advanced things like lenses, for example. Anyways, keep up this activity, at least something good there is on da
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We need to have tutorials that can be helpful to all sorts of people, to beginners to intermediate to (in the future) advanced photographers...
Glad that you are honest though, that means a lot!
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Great stuff, really useful and i agree about the framing of the photo's.
Keep em coming please
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kickin, thjis should help alot of people starting out.
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yeah nice tutorial ...
definitely what i'm trying to do in my work 
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