I guess there's little you can do about the decor in the view of the
restaurant, talk about 'busy'... but one thing I can suggect is
blowing the dust off the photos before you scan, plus taking some
glass/window cleaner on a soft cloth & polishing the scanner bed.
Both will help leave you much less to do in cleaning up the
background! I do think rescanning at a higher res will help...
The cake - I don't know what other people think, but I'd suggest
first getting rid of whatever is in the left hand background, it's a
very quick job with clone tool/airbrush in photoshop, so it should be
in your graphics package too & if the client's willing, cropping &
axing the satellite cakes - another good reason for rescanning at
higher res to give yourself some wiggle room ..... Then you really
need to adjust the levels so you can actually see the midtones in the
yellow flowers properly & the texture & shadows on the icing - at the
moment they're completely washed out, & just doing this will improve
the picture hugely. Give it a go! Then we're onto
sharpening/blurring....at the moment the focus is on the fabric in
front of the cake, rather than the cake so I'd say a little of both
necessary to bring up what you want the spotlight on BUT - All this
of course is down to the photographs you've been given, and
chargeable to the client because you can spend a LOOOOONG time on
this. I reckon if they won't pay, then better scanning is the most
they can expect of you - better advise them to get a good photograph
taken. It might pay you to team up with a good local photographer
whose work you could recommend in future?
I've just paid the taxman & delivered all the damn forms - yes it's
that time of year here, and I'm going to reward myself by taking the
rest of the afternoon off & taking the dogs out for a run... well,
the dogs will be running, I will be wandering along behind enjoying
the sunshine.
Franni
Okay. I posted the pics online here:
http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/testpics.htm. I put the actual
sized pictures below with smaller versions on top so you can see
what I am aiming for. I realize that I need to clean up the
background in them but any other feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Riva
Franni Vincent wrote:
hi Riva,
If you have the original photos, you shouldn't have a problem - no,
scratch that, your ONLY prob should be the quality of the
photos.... I recall only too clearly having to remove in photoshop
the litter which a client was too stupid/idle to sweep away before
taking the photo.... (unfortunately couldn't fix the faces of his
sales staff!)
But as someone (ross?) said earlier, scanning the originals at a
higher resolution's going to be your best bet. Why don't you upload
one & give us the URL so we can have a look at it?
Franni
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