Can anyone save this?

[jamieboy]

In my defence, it was a bit overcast and rainy and getting late. And I only have a happy-snappy camera. And, crucially, no talent whatsoever.

My meagre photoshop skills can't make anything worthwhile from this:

Can anyone help? I'd like to be able to see some detail of the car, without the whole thing being really washed out. If it makes any difference, I think I only want this bit:

...although I'll take advice on cropping and stuff as well if you've any to offer.

[mr noble]

As I see in your profile that this is your car.

I would say that the best bet is to wait till you have a spare hour at sunset time one cloudy day, and then go out and re shoot it. Take loads of shots from different angles and with different bits in focus and you will then end up (if your lucky) with one thats really good!

It could be helped out in PS if you send over the full jpg to me or someone I guess, but Pshop can only work with whats already there.

HTH
Greg

[Gemm]

I would probably re-do the shot as well. I think the fundamental issue is that the car is facing the wrong way. It may be cliched but I feel it would be better if the car was looking into the shot.

[V6GTO]

5 mins...needs retaking really...could have done more but it was really looking fake/horrible.



Martin.

[Gemm]

I've attempted a quick rescue. What about this?

Edited by Gemm on Tuesday 15th August 20:38

[_dobbo_]

[jamieboy]

V6GTO said:

5 mins...needs retaking really...

cheers Martin. That's as good as I had hoped it could get - I know that you can't polish poo. I hadn't been able to get it any better than 'really fake/horrible'.

edit because there's more posts there now! Thanks Gemm and dobbo too - to me on my laptop the colours look truer on Martin's, but I'll try them on different screens. Thanks to all of you.

Edited by jamieboy on Tuesday 15th August 21:00

[cy88]

A slightly different approach.... (again 2 mins)



(shame you didn't clean the car when you were at the beach! )

[cy88]

Instead of cloning the whole car from the beach*, I just cloned a couple of the accents - lights / trim etc onto dobbo's version.....I think that this lifts the dull areas in your original






*
From your website....taken at just the right angle (when mirrored)

Edited by cy88 on Wednesday 16th August 09:11

[jamieboy]

cy88 said:

A slightly different approach.... (again 2 mins)

(shame you didn't clean the car when you were at the beach! )

Thanks for these - to be fair, I washed the car and then went out for a run to dry it off.

I quite like it being dirty - shows that it's being used (I hope) properly. There are some clean'n'shiny photos on my website too...

[_dobbo_]

By the way, I meant to say when I posted the picture - very nice car sir!

[cy88]

jamieboy said:

cy88 said:

A slightly different approach.... (again 2 mins)

(shame you didn't clean the car when you were at the beach! )

Thanks for these - to be fair, I washed the car and then went out for a run to dry it off.

I quite like it being dirty - shows that it's being used (I hope) properly. There are some clean'n'shiny photos on my website too...

I only meant from a photoshop perspective

As above, very nice car!

[poah]

here is my crapy attempt lol

[megy]

Here is my attempt, while at work without my usual workflow and actions to work with(excuses excuses).

[megy]

WOAH,,,,didnt realise how fuzzy the car looked on mine till i uploaded it, the version by 'poah' looks good though.

[richb]

jamieboy said:

cy88 said:

A slightly different approach.... (again 2 mins)(shame you didn't clean the car when you were at the beach! )

Thanks for these - to be fair, I washed the car and then went out for a run to dry it off.

"Chammy" works better though

[jamieboy]

richb said:

"Chammy" works better though

I know, I know... but it was February so I could either have the first roof-down blast of the year, or chammy the car dry and roll it back into the garage...


Seriously, thanks to everyone for taking the time to help me out with this.

[megy]

Attempt no 2, slightly better.