Hey all...I don't really know anything about photography, so figured I'd post some questions here to see if you guys could help.

My wife took some pictures of our kids, it's pageant time for our local small annual festival. She has to pick a picture of each child to put in the local paper, and I was wondering what is the best way to try and fix some of the pictures?

A couple of the pictures she is wanting to use, there is (in my opinion) too much shadow on their faces...is there any way to fix shadows? Also, there is a small tree stump in one of the pictures, is it possible to remove it and some how photoshop the background in behind it?

I can post the pictures if you like...also any tips for her taking better pictures outside to avoid the shadows etc in the future? It's just a P&S camera, nothing too fancy, has some manual settings, but not a lot, and she loves taking pictures, but she's clearly new to it

Lightroom is the best for fixing lighting, which makes sense from the name, lol. When it comes to the actual photographs, just make sure they're not facing away from the lightsource, and then you won't get the shadows.

As for the tree stump. It can be removed in Photoshop, but I'm not an expert on filling in the background. I know they added something in Photoshop to make that easier, but I'm not sure how to do it myself.

Ok thanks...if anyone here is good at PS and wants to take a crack at it lmk...would be willing to give some fg to fix up a couple of pictures (shadows and the stump )

I could fix the shadow one if you want to PM it to me.

all of that can be done, photoshop would be the best
post the pics so we can see and advise how much work its going to be

Thanks...




This is the one w/ the stump in it, and some shadows:






and the other one w/ shadows:




Thanks

this job did Gimp "in a minute"

Can you tell me how you did it?

dowload Gimp 2.8 (on windows) or Gimp 2.6 on linux.
install it.
open the picture with gimp.
use the tool called clone and proceed by following the documentary: ( http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tool-clone.html ) ( available in ~20 languages)
(press Crlt + leftklick to mark the area to clone from then click the area to clone to) bit of praktice will do the rest
Tip: use a smooth roundish brush and make it the propper size

good luck

p.s: GIMP is awsome! use it

This post was edited by Nutribert on Sep 17 2012 05:17pm

Ok thanks...appreciate that...

This post was edited by memnoch_thedevil2003 on Sep 18 2012 04:48pm