Help required fixing this image

[CanonChrissy]

My friend took this on her phone - can anyone advise on how to get it right, get rid of glare etc? Happy for you guys to change the image.

Cheers

[colinb]

If you are using photoshop or Lightroom a quick slide of curves or levels will help

[ElvisCole]

I would use Photoshop - camera raw filter-dehaze. Just a quick go I achieved this.

[CanonChrissy]

It was never taken as a raw image so not sure how I can use camera raw.....can you explain 

Thats a cracking improvement though - cheers. Can you talk me through it?

[Ryewolf]

Umm.. something has gone a bit awry in the sky...

I had a go too

[fuzzyedges]

Photo shop cs4 

curves and crop to get shut of the sky plus a slight sharpening 

mouth lassooed copied pasted and saturated to make a little redder 

 

 

[CanonChrissy]

Thanks guys u r all better at this than me!

[Ryewolf]

Sorry I forgot to say what I did with mine, I selected the sky, inverted selection added a small feather, then used the Darken RGB to get rid of the haze - done in Paint Shop Pro, then ran it through Photomatix Pro 5 to play around with the white/black clip and midtones. Photomatix doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Lightroom has, but alas my aging Win XP pc won't run the latest version of Lightroom.

I also did a crop similar to fuzzyedges....

[ChrisLumix]

Haven't changed it like those other goes - I've just done a bit of burning to get rid of the upper haziness. Only took 2 minutes (you can tell, can't you!)

[CanonChrissy]

I will post my attempts later......rubbish in comparison to you lot

[Clicker]

 

Nice job folks ...

Hi Chrissie I suspect you have compressed the image to fit it on here with the ceiling of 500 kbs  being the rule .. The file size of the image  is  only 378kbs  and only approximately 500 pixels wide ...not ideal for restoring  . Most of my iPhone pics are about 1.8 Mb and can be worked on quite easily  so  if you could let me have  the original large file from her Phone ( unless she has only given you the compressed version too ) I can probably do a much  better quality restore that the one I am posting ...lol 

 Send me a personal message if you want me to try restoring on a bigger version, if you have it, and I 'll  send you my email address to send it to. No obligation if you don't want to ...it's  just an offer .

I have cropped it as the sky seemed superfluous and badly blown ...

 

 

Edited September 10, 2015 by Clicker