Tutorial: Restoring a Dark Image in Photoshop
I’ve written about restoring dark images before, but the other day I was working on a less radical image than the ones I was writing about then, and I thought a more detailed step-by step tutorial might be in order. In the image above — a picture of the western group of ruins at the Maya site of Kabah in the Yucatan — the original is on the left and the corrected version on the right. Follow me through the process here.
Posted: April 25th, 2007 under art and illustration, computing, maya.
Comments: 9
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Comment from Carla
Time: April 25, 2007, 7:14 pm
Very cool!
Comment from Icenode
Time: April 25, 2007, 9:28 pm
Nice job of breaking down the steps. I’m going to link to this article if you don’t mind.
Good work.
Comment from Adidas
Time: August 30, 2007, 4:21 pm
That’s impressive, thanks for tutorial. But, I have one question, is it possible to import Models from 3D Studio Max to Photoshop? if I want to give the picture some 3d effects.
Comment from cristina busk
Time: November 29, 2007, 10:14 am
If you visit my site, which is quite of age, you will see that photography is about using a flashlight correctly. Still, I would never be able to manipulate to such an extent. Nice. I like professionalism.
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Time: January 24, 2008, 5:01 am
[...] it a bit just by moving the center and right levels sliders — I didn’t want to use my regular technique for lightening dark photos, because I wanted to keep the sense of gathering darkness. I also increased the saturation just a [...]
Comment from Misty
Time: March 24, 2008, 10:06 pm
Your tutorial on restoring a dark image has saved some of my most precious photos. This worked SOOOO well. Thank you! Thank God that there are people out there who post helpful information.
Comment from xensen
Time: March 25, 2008, 6:59 am
Thanks, Misty. That’s good to hear!
Comment from invisible detector
Time: June 3, 2009, 11:16 am
Dude, you rock!!
I like how you did much brighter picture but I don ‘t went so well that the following steps
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