shadowed photo

**John W. Love** · 02-12-2009, 6:04 PM

Ok, I'm trying to engrave a valentine's day present for our son from his new wife... however the photo she wants engraved on granite was taken outside and one side of her face is heavily shadowed. I lightened the photo and increased the contrast but when engraved one side of her face doesn't even appear... is there a way to correct this?

sorry the pic is small had to resample to .75 inches wide to get it to fit on here lol

Thanks!

**Tim Bateson** · 02-12-2009, 6:14 PM

Use the Burn tool over the lighter areas, the Dodge tool over her left eye to lighten it. Then adjust the contrast. Here is a quick shot at it. It would look better if done with the original photo.

**Scott Shepherd** · 02-12-2009, 6:27 PM

You can zip the file and it will allow you to post a much larger file. Just right click on it and send it to "Compressed Folder", then you can upload that.

**Mike Null** · 02-12-2009, 6:50 PM

I adjusted this using the tone curve and the vignette tool.

**Anthony Welch** · 02-12-2009, 8:01 PM

Tim,

What program has these tools. If Photopaint, I've been unaware of them and could have accepted some photos from clients that I rejected. Some guidance is requested, if you don't mind.

Anthony

**Chip Peterson** · 02-12-2009, 8:10 PM

Those are in PhotoPaint

1- Adjust ..tone curve
2- Effects...Creative...Vignete

I know it's not much, but after all I've received from you all, I just got thrilled by helping someone else!

**Tim Bateson** · 02-12-2009, 8:32 PM

I used Photoshop CS

**Scott Shepherd** · 02-12-2009, 8:39 PM

Tom Knight, new guy on this forum, and the creator of AdvancedArtist.com does some killer things with Photopaint. It's one of the training sessions in the package I mentioned on the other thread.

I honestly had no idea how powerful Photopaint was until I saw Tom using it.

**Steve Clarkson** · 02-12-2009, 8:43 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Shepherd

Tom Knight, new guy on this forum, and the creator of AdvancedArtist.com does some killer things with Photopaint. It's one of the training sessions in the package I mentioned on the other thread.

I honestly had no idea how powerful Photopaint was until I saw Tom using it.

Does he cover how to read a histogram????? I need tone curve and contrast help!

**Scott Shepherd** · 02-12-2009, 8:45 PM

I don't know, I haven't gotten that far yet

It's 30 some hours worth of lessons and stupid work keeps getting in the way of my leisure time

**Mike Null** · 02-12-2009, 8:46 PM

Anthony

I just use PhotoPaint for my own amusement but it is a fine program--especially since it's "free" with CD.

Do a search for tutorials on google. There are a bunch of them --again--free.

I'd send links but I'm on a new PC and haven't got my favs listed yet.

**Anthony Welch** · 02-12-2009, 9:09 PM

Thanks Mike,

I use the tone curve and vignette quite often. It's the shadows mentioned earlier I'd like to lighten and leave the rest of photo as is. I will do some research and see how it's done. I just never have heard of or know of a "burn" or "dodge" tool, unless they are called something else.

Now that I know they exist and this is possible to do I'll figure it out.

Anthony

**Mike Null** · 02-12-2009, 9:50 PM

Anthony

I just bought a tutorial from Jeff Harrison at Graphics Unleashed. (very much against my principles)

But I needed it for a project I'm working on. It's about how to make various metallic effects. here's one.

edit: Well that doesn't look nearly as good here as it does in Photopaint.

**Leo Graywacz** · 02-12-2009, 9:58 PM

Screwed around with it quite a bit, used Paint Shop Pro

**Steve Eide** · 02-12-2009, 9:58 PM

Mike, it looks like metal to me. Just use some highlighting for reflections and it would become very heavy.

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