Can this one be saved?

[GrantT]

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject.php?id=99015

I had a feeling this one was going to be rejected, my question is can anybody modify it to upload quality?

Here is the original cropped and resized.

[AJ]

Hi Grant,
Do you have the bigger version still? This one will not survive being expanded back to 768 high and has suffered a fair bit. I think the grain will be it's downfall. I gave it a quick go:

It's hard to get a good shot on such a dull day isn't it?
Cheers!

[indian airlines]

Here's my shot at it. I changed the contrast, brightness and gamma, and sharpened it a bit. However, it still has a lot of grain.

[SWA733Captain]

That one doesn't appear to have the stuff. Just taken on too dark of a day and a bit too far away. It's also quite grainy. Definately one for the personal collection.

[indian airlines]

Here's my attemt at getting rid of the grain. It's very silly - I doubt it even worked. This is what I did. I used the smudge tool in Microsoft Photo Editor, and smudged out all the grain around the aircraft. Naturally, I cannot smudge out the grain on the actual aircraft itself. So what we have now is a complete mess, with the sky un-grained, the aircraft grainy, and smudgy borders on part of the aircraft (grain smudging-out accidents.

Oh yeah, I hand smudged out the grain, by rubbing the mouse pointer all over the picture.

"Vows never to waste 20 minutes doing stuff like that ever again:

[GrantT]

Vows never to waste 20 minutes doing stuff like that ever again

Thanks for your effort anyway but i think SWA is right, this may be a lost cause. I won't let it bother me to much, i had only had my camera for one day when this picture was took.

Thanks again for the help.

[BA747-436]

Dont use the smudge tool, looks bloddy aweful.

[Ilbap]

Dont use the smudge tool, looks bloddy aweful.

It looks like it is a scan of a print which got wet...



Still, I've never managed to get a decent shot of an aircraft taking off

[indian airlines]

Yeah, I know. That was a waste of time. Well, atleast it removed some of the grain a bit.

[JeffinDEN]

I could tell from looking at the original....it is a gonner..... didn't even try that one.

[Ilbap]

I could tell from looking at the original....it is a gonner..... didn't even try that one.

You're probably right. I tried anyway as I didn't want to be left out

[Philipp]

I tried it with "Neat Image" ... so now it has nearly no grain! After that i changed gamma and contrast with ACDSee and sharpend it a lil' bit!
Mh, not bad ...

[BA747-436]

No offense guys, but this ones a lost cause. There's just to many things running against it.

But feel free to carry on trying your best with it...some interesting results

[GrantT]

No offense guys, but this ones a lost cause.

Yeh i kind of threw in the towel last week but i do appreciate the help, thanks again.