Curves/Specail Problem

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tony cooper
Oct 5, 2006
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I have some digital images taken in the interior of a renovated theater that I need to improve as best I can. Taken with flash, indoors, in an area that was almost dark.

I’ve played around with Curves and can improve them slightly, but would like suggestions of how to go about it better. This is just one of a series of images, so I’m looking for "how to" and not "do it for me".

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/coronado_00 .jpg

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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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Mike Russell
Oct 5, 2006
"Tony Cooper" wrote in message
I have some digital images taken in the interior of a renovated theater that I need to improve as best I can. Taken with flash, indoors, in an area that was almost dark.

I’ve played around with Curves and can improve them slightly, but would like suggestions of how to go about it better. This is just one of a series of images, so I’m looking for "how to" and not "do it for me".

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/coronado_00 .jpg

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be enough detail in the specific image you provide to recover a good quality image – any attempt to pull detail out of the shadows results in blocky jpeg artifacts.

Reshooting aside, I think there is still some hope of getting a good quality image from your originals. One method that can substantially improve the appearance of underexposed images would be to use Dan Margulis’s pseudo profile technique. This is discussed in detail in his book Professional Photoshop, which includes an example of the rather amazing recovery of an underexposed image.

In a nutshell, the technique consists of creating a "false profile" whose primaries are copied from Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB, with a very low gamma value. Then assign this profile to your image – voila instant brightness and saturation. Then use curves to fine tune the result, and there are techniques to deal with the inevitable noise in the shadows..

You may download a pseudo profile at the curvemeister download site: http://www.curvemeister.com/downloads/pseudoprofile/index.ht m —

Mike Russell
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Tacit
Oct 5, 2006
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Tony Cooper wrote:

I have some digital images taken in the interior of a renovated theater that I need to improve as best I can. Taken with flash, indoors, in an area that was almost dark.

Start with Levels to set the white and dark points, then move to Curves.

The dark areas of those images are degraded very badly because of JPEG compression; lightening the image is going to make the severe degradation more noticeable.

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