Anyway to enhance this photo

[laffinorse]

Hello all,

Managed to get a pic of a Buzzard, but it was at 17.38 tonight, therfore pic quality not good
Now Purchased Photoshop Elements 4, and working through How To's Etc.
Is it possible to make the photo clearer in Elements 4.



Taken with Fuji S5000 auto setting 6mb TCON 1.7 attached

Cheers

[nightshade]

Auto Smart Fix in the general fixes palette may do it
then sharpen it a little, failing this someone clever will
be along soon
always work on a copy!

[Wilf]

You should be able to get some detail back into the plumage. Try using the Levels adjustment.

[John]

I have copied and pasted your image into Photoshop. Using levels I have used the middle arrow to adjust the contrast and the plumage has come out relatively well. However you can't sharpen it anymore as you already have an halo effect around the edge of the bird, possibly due to slightly over sharpening already.

It's still not a brilliant image but at least you can see it much better.

It's a shame we can no longer hyperlink an image straight from your PC as I could have shown you the finished article.

John

[laffinorse]

Originally Posted by John

I have copied and pasted your image into Photoshop. Using levels I have used the middle arrow to adjust the contrast and the plumage has come out relatively well. However you can't sharpen it anymore as you already have an halo effect around the edge of the bird, possibly due to slightly over sharpening already.

It's still not a brilliant image but at least you can see it much better.

It's a shame we can no longer hyperlink an image straight from your PC as I could have shown you the finished article.

John

John,

Tried out the above, quality still not good, you advice gave a start on elements4

Thanks

[Wolfhill]

Try using a fuction called Shadow/Highlight, this can be found under Image then Adjustments.

[eeyore]

I downloaded it and tried a varety of levels , hue , saturation etc etc issues , trouble is that the relatively low res leeds to haloing round the image. you might be able to do more with the high res version but this is one of those ones that would be easier to get right in camera.

does your s5000 have a histogram feature ? if it does it is wll worth using it to check the exposure as it is far more reliable than doing it by eye on the LCD. In this case you needed to set a bit of +ve exposure compensation - although that would have bloqwn the highlights in the sky admittedly

[laffinorse]

Originally Posted by eeyore

I downloaded it and tried a varety of levels , hue , saturation etc etc issues , trouble is that the relatively low res leeds to haloing round the image. you might be able to do more with the high res version but this is one of those ones that would be easier to get right in camera.

does your s5000 have a histogram feature ? if it does it is wll worth using it to check the exposure as it is far more reliable than doing it by eye on the LCD. In this case you needed to set a bit of +ve exposure compensation - although that would have bloqwn the highlights in the sky admittedly

Thanks for all replies,

Been Playing about with a program call Neat Image Neat Image - best noise reduction for digital cameras and scanners (Free) and photoshop Elements and all your suggestions, as I am no expert attached best I could come up with. Can someone out there with the expertise, try Neat Image and report back.

Thanks
ps earlier photo of buzzard a start of thread