The Salvage Yard Photo Gallery by Carmen at pbase.com

The Salvage Yard

Shots that really needed some help. The Photoshop edited images are on the left; originals on the right.
I've found one of the most useful tools in many of these rather damaged shots is the 'Autolevels' function, followed by a bit of tweaking to calm down some of the over-saturated colors. I probably could arrive at the finished state manually, but when there's so much to fix, autolevels gets you pretty close to where you need to be with just one click.

Some of these were really too far gone and probably should have been chucked back in the dumpster, but you just never know what's hiding underneath all that grime! (Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.)

DSC01926_focus magic.JPG	DSC01926_focus magic sharpen.JPG
DSC01926_unedited.JPG	DSC01926.JPG
DSC03857.JPG	DSC03857 al_sat reduction.JPG
DSC03856.JPG	DSC03856 al_sat adj.JPG
DSC03859.JPG	DSC03859 con_sat adj.JPG
DSC03885.JPG	DSC03885 al_sat adj.JPG
DSC04231.JPG	DSC04231 adj.JPG
DSC04177.JPG	July 23, 2005 Musical Maize Maze Johnny Cash & Conway Twitty
DSC03839.JPG	DSC03839 al_sat adj.JPG
DSC03880.JPG	DSC03880 ad.JPG

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Dave Beedon		23-Sep-2005 17:17
I agree---Auto Levels is a wonderful tool. So is Auto Contrast and Auto Color Adjustment (or whatever it's called). I have used them all. Photo-editing software is one of mankind's greatest inventions.

laine82		28-Jul-2005 08:51
Care to share how you achieved these excellent results, Carmen. The save is amazing.

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