Tower Bridge

On a rare sunny day....
Taken with a 15mm fisheye, then corrected afterwards.

I think its a bit bright on the left and I dont think that splash of red on the left helps, having something bright in the corner draws the eye away from the main image, the other reds are ok though, apart from that it a nice shot.

I would suggest using the gradient tool in photoshop to adjust the levels on the left and then crop that red out, you could also crop the sky slightly if you want to retain the panoramic effect.

If you need to know how to do the sdjustment just shout

Nice shot although perhaps could do with a bit more perspective correction? Tower Bridge is falling over, falling over, falling over, Tower... [shut up Lockyear!]

Spider... why not let us all know what you would do? Everyone's photoshop technique is different, and it is good to see what others would do.

Best wishes, Kris.

Your not bothered about Giles' image, you just want to pick my brains

Anyway, for what its worth:

OK This is just a quick fix to darken the left side of the image in keeping with the rest, this is for Photoshop7 so the shortcuts (-) may be different for other versions of PS (though I doubt it)
I'm not going to bother with a sample image, just try it on this one.

1) Select the rectangle Marquee tool (M) & select the entire image
2) Select edit in Quick Mask. (Q)
3) Select Gradient tool (G) and draw the line diagonally from bottom right corner to top left corner.
4) Exit Quick Mask (Q) which should leave the left side of the image selected (but it will still be graduated to the right.
5) Open Adjust Levels (ctrl+L) and drop the middle slider to about 75, you can also try other adjustments if you like.

I find the gradient tool useful for adjusting portions of an image , it can be a bit fiddly knowing where to start the gradient but after using it for a while it becomes second nature, just remember that the start of the line is the part least. affected by the grad and the end of the line is the area most affected, get it the wrong way round and your adjusting the wrong area

Thanks for the tip. I've had a go at darkening the left side. I've toned down the remaining red in a rather hamfisted way too. It looks a lot better. There's still a slight pin-cusion affect, couldn't quite get rid of that.