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Darken background and enhance image foreground


ashwinkumark

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can anyone guide me taking out most of the background from the image and enhance the foreground.

Here is an example of what I am looking for:
Enhanced image
IMG_20120702_155101.jpg


Raw Image: IMG_20120706_233531.jpg
 

Savage

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I was able to create this picture from the original you gave me.
flowers.jpg

Here's what I did:
1. Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight and then brought the shadow to 0%, brought the highlights up to 50%, and turned the midtone contrast to +77.
2. Image>Adjustments>Curves and brought that to about Output: 125 Input: 197. But you can recreate this doing many other techniques I'm sure. I just did a pretty simple way of going about this.

If you you find that the image is still too dark, try Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast and bringing the levels up to Brightness: 106, Contrast: +30
 

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