I'm wanting this photo of my son enhanced, preferably with no dark areas left. Thank you, much appreciated

Do you have a RAW file for it? Or just jpg?

What do you mean by no dark areas left? Original image would help too.

No RAW file, i had lost the original file, this is the only copy of it i have.



Well, when i print it out, the lower area of the image is really dark.

I came up with this using Photo Editing Tools. Not much better and someone might be able to lighten it up better than this but I thought I'd post this just incase it helps.

Here's my go at it. I tried to lighten up the dark areas while losing as little detail in the light areas as possible.

check it.

Enjoy

-Dax

I decided to use a Smart Filter on it due the pixilation that occurred lightening it, so it did stylize it quite a bit.
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And yeah, I personally opted for losing detail out the door, as I thought it was not significant to the overall photo itself and I actually though the hard light coming from the door looked better, just my personal opinion.

I don't do much photo editing, but here's my go:

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Sorry, I preferred not to bring out the fill light as the it really brought out the artifacts because of the low resolution. Heavy noise reduction made it look plasticy which I just couldn't have!

I didn't even think about fixing the pixilation so here

-Dax

here is my attempt.. very hard with such a small photo.

One last take

Wow, Giga, yours really 'feels' the "let me the **** out" message

Thanks everyone, giga you rock man. I see what you're saying, much appreciated everyone.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but i've found the original.

Here is my attempt.

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atlef.

How about this
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I still have the full size one if you want it pm me.

Some rough work. I added a bit of glow for a nice soft effect. All resized to 800px.