# Cleaning up a photograph in Photoshop

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**Created:** [February 1, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cleaning-up-a-photograph-in-photoshop/136053 "2005-02-01T22:42:10Z")
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#### Post date: [February 1, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cleaning-up-a-photograph-in-photoshop/136053/1 "2005-02-01T22:42:10Z")

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I searched, but couldn’t find anything to help…  
What I need help with is this:  
I’m putting photographs up on a website for a cilent. They are digital photos that he took himself, but they all look like crap compared to to the old photographs that the original owner took.

I played with them a bit in photoshop, and made them look okay, but still nowhere near the quality of the other photographs. Chances are, the originals were done with a professional, high-quality, expensive camera, but he just has a 500 mega-pixel digital camera. Here are 2 samples:

Originals:  
 ![](http://www.lake-ozark-condo-rental.com/images/92.jpg) ![](http://www.lake-ozark-condo-rental.com/images/90.jpg)

and after playing with it, my image:  
 ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/1102/0dbf0004b3e38ea2.jpg)

What I did was this: I shrunk the original image down to 500px (it was like 2000 something)  
I applied Sharpen Edges, and played with levels, and contrast, and colors, etc. Mostly, I do web-images that are made from scratch, not photgraphs, so I’m a little out of my element… is there any concievable way that I can hope to get anywhere close to the other quality? Or is it hopless…  
I imagine that with the camera he’s using, that’s about as good as it gets, but I’m not sure… any help is greatly appreciated.