Undoing My OTT PP

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I've got a picture that I love from about 2-3 years ago now. It's a landscape, the light was great and I haven't seen clouds like it since.

Trouble was I was a bit of a rookie and PP'd the shizzle outta this thing. Saturation and clarity to make your eyes bleed.

I've still got the TIF - is there any way I can, for want of a better word, 'reset' this thing to it's original state using Photoshop or Lightroom? I've tried crudely reverse engineering it but it seems beyond repair.

Any help would be great - cheers.
 
Possibly an oh dear moment???

This is why even 2 to 3 years ago I, even before I was using RAW workflow, I only ever worked on copies of the SOOC JPEG i.e. I always had the original copy of the source file (HDD space has never been so expensive that retaining the original files was a burden IMO) should I want to do just what you seem to be saying..............go back and revisit the image for another 'fresher' go at the PP. That is why I now have grown to like LR for the way you can create many virtual copies and work on each independently of each other and all the steps are part of the history but that is no use in your situation now AFAIK.

For your sake I hope others with the PS skills could perhaps ride to the rescue with more positive news and support.
 
The saturation is fixable, but not the clarity I think. :(
 
Box Brownie said:
Possibly an oh dear moment???

This is why even 2 to 3 years ago I, even before I was using RAW workflow, I only ever worked on copies of the SOOC JPEG i.e. I always had the original copy of the source file (HDD space has never been so expensive that retaining the original files was a burden IMO) should I want to do just what you seem to be saying..............go back and revisit the image for another 'fresher' go at the PP. That is why I now have grown to like LR for the way you can create many virtual copies and work on each independently of each other and all the steps are part of the history but that is no use in your situation now AFAIK.

For your sake I hope others with the PS skills could perhaps ride to the rescue with more positive news and support.
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Yeah it's been bugging me for ages and just decided to try and do something about it.

Keeping the original RAW file would have been a good idea but at the time I thought my PO was the bees knees so no need to keep the original :)

I know it's a long shot but if you don't ask you'll never know.

Ps here's the shot on Flickr:


Horse On The Hillside (Explored) by Danny Birrell, on Flickr


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Try opening the image in camera raw, drop the saturation and give it some negative clarity, I doubt it'll be perfect but I'd expect it to be a lot closer to what you shot.
 
Pretty much as Wayne said really, I also had a little play using Vibrancy or Hue / Saturation, (CS5)
Either will "turn it down a bit"
TBH I wouldn't say the WB was way out, its the warm light you would expect, but again this can turned down in
ACR should you so desire.
obviously I won't post the results and you have edit set to no.
 
danny_bhoy said:
I've got a picture that I love from about 2-3 years ago now. It's a landscape, the light was great and I haven't seen clouds like it since.

Trouble was I was a bit of a rookie and PP'd the shizzle outta this thing. Saturation and clarity to make your eyes bleed.

I've still got the TIF - is there any way I can, for want of a better word, 'reset' this thing to it's original state using Photoshop or Lightroom? I've tried crudely reverse engineering it but it seems beyond repair.

Any help would be great - cheers.
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Sorry.... can't "reset" a bitmapped image file format. You can try and retouch and adjust it to calm it down a bit, but stuff like clarity and detail enhancements are there forever. It will always be a compromise.


For any beginners reading this. Shoot raw. Stop processing stuff to death.
 
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