More Stayner Family

So I decided to work on these photos again. I have been so determined to fix them by getting rid of that nasty noise. There still is some noise there--but from the original photo they are a big improvement. I found some little tricks in Photoshop Elements to tame down the mess. I am learning sooo much--learning that I need to learn more about my camera and lighting situations. My friend that I took these for asked if I could photoshop some faces from another photo so that they would all be looking and they would all have pleasant faces. I did it and it might be obvious--but, oh well. It was a fun thing to practice doing.

BEFORE

When I zoomed in to fix this and to lift the exposure a bit the noise was aweful. There is still noise on the edited version but it looks a little better.

OK--so it probably looks obvious what I did to edit this photo. Ü

AFTER

BEFORE

Another noisy photo that every time I tried to bring up the exposure and lighten I'd see that darn noise. Hopefully I toned it down a bit in the picture below.

AFTER

BEFORE

This photo was the worst one of all three of these. His shirt was full of the nasty pixels and noise. I ended up doing a color replacement and then adding a little texture to his shirt. After I color replaced the shirt turned pretty shiny--looked very strange. Hopefully the texture helped to tame that down. Their faces were hard to get to sharpen up as well.

AFTER