re: #175 CleverToad

Alleflippenlujah, I am gobsmacked. That’s Photoshop??? The focus is sharpened, the faces are clear, the colors are true, even to the green of my little sister’s lace dress and the ribbons of the flower girls’ bouquets.

I thought I could maybe make the image a little clearer. I didn’t know someone could reel back time 55 years. I have tears in my eyes, looking at this. Thank you so very much, Bubba Zanetti!!!

I love you lizards!
And I definitely have to learn how to do this

I think I only made three adjustments, using the easier tools. A pro would probably use different techniques, like using Curves and Levels on the individual color bands.

I used the Color Balance tool to get the colors looking better. It’s just three sliders and you slide them back and forth until the colors look right.

At that point things looked pretty good but I still had a little purplish cast to things. I used Hue and Saturation to target the purples and desaturate them a little.

I probably used Levels just to fine tune the brightness of the image.

I ran the basic Sharpen tool that doesn’t have any settings. Also before I saved the image I made it smaller and used the Bicubic Sharpen resampling.

That’s it. It’s not anything you couldn’t learn in an hour or two.