Need help editing a pic in photoshop................

I have a photo that I have to edit and make it look professional by the morning....it is part of a portfolio that i have to hand in.....I am new to photoshop and the person who was supposed to help me is really sick...can someone please help me with this picture? I would really appreciate someone's help. i can send you the image if you would be willing to help.....
I would be willing to pay for help.....just let me know how much you would charge

thanks,

Ryan

 

Hi Ryan,

What exactly do your require doing to the photo,
State what you need and send the pic so i can help you better.

Dilla.

 

Hi Dilla,

I have a pic of a friend.......I am trying to make a random portfolio for an assignment at school......the pic is nice but needs that professional touch.....i am not familiar with photoshop...and i have all my pics ready except this one......i would really appreciate your help......if you could just make the pic look more pro i guess.....its like a modeling picture......if you would like i can pay you..just let me know how much you would charge......i have to hand this portfolio by end of day today..thank you so much!!!! i have attached the pic....

Ryan

 

what you could do is erase the background you can use the eraser tool, or the pen tool then you can add the man to any background you like.

search google for photoshop tutorials on removing the background from the image

hope that helps

thanks
andy

 

If you look at the original image, you can see in the right side the shining effect from the alley. To isolate this and take out the extra objects, create an outline of the alley shape with the pen tool, fill it white and apply a white outer glow. To restore the image into better quality, go to adjustment layer>photo filter>warming filter LBA. This adds a warmer tint to the image and creates more attractive colors.


Go to adjustment layer>hue/saturation> and in the master tab, put saturation to +10. Again this saturates the color to give it a vibrant boost. Go to the same hue/saturation and under the pulldown menu, click reds. In the reds saturation, put the slider bar to +6. This will accent and saturate the red in the bricks, and the tone of your model's face.


Go to adjustment layer> levels and play around with the sliders until you receive the effect that you desire (for this photo, I pulled the middle gray slider to the right at 0.91. The levels adjustment layer will control the different shadings of white and black, and their differing contrasts.


As a final touch, I went to adjustment layer>curves and played around with the middle point until the right shadowing is added.

This all for more enhancing the quality of your photograph. There's other tips and tricks like lens blurs from alpha channels and more, but the basics are here.

 

To add to the good work that xD did, I put some blurring, sharpening and lighting on :

 

To add to the good work that xD + Hecky did, I put it thru some more filters :

 

I don't know if this is still open, but if it is, then here is my attempt:

 

thank you very much for all that have helped me out.........it is very much appreciated!!!

 

Couldn't resist... Not your most conventional edit though.

 

Good job done on above photograph, it was easy and Revilo118 had done a good job in this.. congrats

 

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