nighttime butts need photoshop
 

heres a pic I found on Webshots of five women in some kind of a dare. Anyone want to try brightening it? It has so much potential...

Klondike

Photoshopped
 

OK, First, I tried in photoshop, you friend, auto-levels. This stretches the dark and light areas to fit uniformly across the image, which, while makes them image contain the same information (number of values) according to the computer, each value is displayed further apart (from light to dark) giving us the ability (without our eyes) to see more clearly.

Now, because the bright sparkly thing is so much more contrasting than the rest (why the camera did such a crap job!) the auto levels will not 'cut off' information. We do not want to the sparkly white thing, so I blacked it out (using a nearby colour) and then auto levels. Wow, noisy but better [output 1].

I can do better, so using levels, I manually adjusted the levels, evenly, then modified the brightness contrast, and did localised touchups, [output 2].

If anyone needs more info, i'll see, but if you take digital camera images, don't rely on internet processing, at ***LEAST*** see if it looks better with auto levels applied.

:cool:

tough to do
 

Thanks for the effort - nice! I gave it a shot and found it was hard to improve. Here is what I came up with. Not as bright as I'd like, but I didn't want to lose the realism.

Klondike

Auto levels
 

The last one looks like just auto levels (which is choked because of the bright sparkler).

But it is closer to original.

For the one above, I used the lasso tool to cut out the babes (making them a separate layer) so that I could process them separate from the background (which was causing problems for several reasons) Then I tried to deaden the background a little. The babe layer then got enhanced contrast, brightness and saturation. For the new one (below), in addition to the above, I tried the auto smart fix (following your lead there - didn't know about it before). That brightened the babes more, but I still couldn't approach yours though in terms of level and contrast.

So we've got five variations - that ought to satisfy most people except I left the stringy white thing alone :)

thanks!

Klondike

microsoft picture it
 

auto adjust on contrast and brightness 1 try

Nice pic and nice work!

Where on Webshots was it found?

Regards Sytry2000