Hi everybody,

I did some choppin on a picture of my family. We had a picture made for my grandma to hang on the wall. She was very happy with it when she got it, but that's a couple of years ago. Now there are some people on that picture who are no longer part of the family (ex boyfriend/girlfriends you know that huh) so my grandma took it of the wall, wich i understand. But it is the only picture we have of our family together (my grandma's 2 sons/ daughter and the kids) And one of the family moved to another country.. (Suriname) So i asked her for the picture and she gave it to me wondering if i could take those people out so she can put it back on the wall again.
I did get those people out, and must say i am pleased with the new picture but the colors are not good. I printed the image and people look as if they are burned from the sun.
When i started i first scan the picture, but because it's glossy the light of the scanner reflected and it got all white dots. So i took my camera and made a picture of the picture wich i chopped on. How do i get the right colors back and make the people look normal and not so red. please help cause i want to give the picture back to grandma so she can hang it on the wall again.

Here are the links:
scan: http://home.wanadoo.nl/wemibas/scanofpicture.jpg
picture of picture: http://home.wanadoo.nl/wemibas/pictureofpicture.jpg
and finaly my chopped version: http://home.wanadoo.nl/wemibas/result.jpg

I think the color of the little almost bold guy (my dad, now you now why i'm little! ) comes close to what i need to get with all of them.

what version of photoshop are you using, very important

ps 7

ah! maybe someone with ps,cs can go here,
http://www.hallcross.co.uk/free%20stuff/TUT'S/tuts.htm
copy and paste
and down load these two tut's,

color_adjustment.swf
shadow_highlight.swf

that should fix the color problem,
P.S. you did a great job on the picture

thanks splodge!

I had a little trouble with the skin tones at first, but I think this is starting to look fairly natural.



Whaddya think?

Andorians! Well... almost

Oh...

I thought they were SMURFS!

Wait... what was i thinking you're absolutely right reinman!!! It's wendysmurfie's family!

Hi Wendy,
Is this any closer to what you are after?
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b230/bigbuckster/result2.jpg
Took some red out and fixed a few spots/specks...
Cheers,
Brad.

Whahahaha!! They look cute reinman, but that wasn't exactly what i ment. But thanks for making me laugh! I needed that.

@Bigbuck: I think it is!! thank you very much. when i started to play with the colors i couldn't find a goot setting . I am not good with color adjustment need to practice on that more. Thank you for your help, realy kind of you.

great i just wrote good with a T! DOH! now i feel stupid.

I thought it was just your accent.

probably you haven't noticed... but there's an EDIT button on every post you make...

Ms. Smurf - I am 1/2 Dutchy so I understood the "goot".

Laughter is goot!