narrow boat

narrow boat - view it large Originally uploaded by tamilian


Unedited version is above. Click the second image to view the edited version in flickr

I did a fair bit of editing to this simple picture.
I used adobe photoshop cs2 for editing.
1. I took this picture hand held so I had to crop it to make it 'straight' first. I used the bridge as my reference. I also used cropping to remove the distracting elements from the picture.
2. There was a cycylist on the left side path. He was a big distraction for the image, so i removed him using 'cloning'
3. The boat was very dark since it was under the bridge, I used 'levels' to brighten it and then used 'curves' to give it some contrast.
4. I sharpened the picture selectively.
5. I also enriched the saturation of the boat to bring out the blue colour and hide its scratches.