What do you all think???

[bluthundr]

Posted up a few days ago about getting my first dive camera, abeit a relatively cheap one. I don't really have any experience with Photoshop, so I looked at some of the tutorials I found in here and played with it a bit.

This is before and after photoshopping shots of a picture I took today. What do you all think?

Before:

After:

 

[undefined]

May I post an edited copy of your photo for comparison?

 

[Harshal]

Have you tried using underwater setting on your camera, if you have one? That helps with the light and compensates for the color loss.

 

[SteveFass]

With something like this, after fixing the green tint and decreasing the sharpness and whatnot, I would cheat a little. I would decrease the distance between the two fish (not sure how much, maybe 1/2), and i would offset them more from the background --now you have green fish on a green background. And crop in tight.


Keep at this photo - I like it.

 

[bmemike]

One thing that I'd try doing is to select just the fish and auto-levels on them to make them "pop". If you're good at adjusting the levels on your own, you may prefer this over the auto-levels (though they're _usually_ good in many situations).

You'd then want to adjust the levels of the background to have them stand out a bit less than the fish. The fish, of course, should be the focus of the piece, not the background so much.

Getting good with level adjustment is an important photoshop skill.

Good luck!

 

[bluthundr]

May I post an edited copy of your photo for comparison?

Go for it!

I played with it a bit more last nite after looking at some more tutorials and downloading some macros. I think this is gonna be rather difficult for me as I'm pretty significantly color blind...

As for the rest of the advice, thank you - I'll try it out.

To answer someone's question: no, my camera doesn't have an underwater mode. I've been playing around with auto and manual modes, flash settings, iso, etc.

 

[Fastmarc]

A quick attempt by me. No sharpening.

 

[azcaddman]

my shot (from the low res version in post 1, could be better with orig file).

 

[undefined]

A little CS2 fun - nothing major. Sorry if I went overboard on saturation.

 

[60feet]

I'm new to PS2, but here's my attempt, including a bit of cropping and blurring of the background.