aironite

Kind of tough to do....... one problem is the brick sidewalk- yellow tint scattered among them. Adjust the levels and you'll see how bad it is.

I had a job like this one.... I replaced the the sidewalk with one specially taken at night . Good thing I knew the area where the photo was taken. And then color tinting work and others. Wellll... the client loved it but it took weeks to do.

It takes time coz I have to do it bit by bit.... if possible pixel by pixel. I'm saying it can be done but takes a whole lot of time , patience and experimenting.

Silky

If you really have the time, I'd recomend what dv8 said.
Here's a quick fix I did using noise reduce filter, shadow & highlights, BC, and selective color.

Smoke420

man this photo is shot

I would take a photo of the same exact spot if I had a camera!

- Al

ronmatt

this is a bit more subtle than patrick's. just opened the 3/4 tones and did some curves in cmyk

Raven

\:/ Well, here's my attempt...if you want the bricks or any other areas smoother you could use the blur brush on them and disolve the jpg artifacts out as much as you want.? Any color you don't want use the desaturation tool/brush over until you like the color.
---Maya

Smoke420

that's very good! How did you do that? [saywhat]

Raven

Thanks! What I looked at first was those orange shorts, and also I noticed the yellow banding and extra blue jpging coming through everywhere...although it looked like there might be some bluish light being cast from the alleyway on the right, so I didn't want to get rid of all of it. The yellows also suggested some warmth in the evening lighting from the table side. I went to the hue and saturation mode and tried getting those orange shorts a more real tone with the evening lighting = desaturating the red and yellows a bit. I also changed the cyans to a lighter shade and desaturated some. A couple of times I used mulitply and soft light on the layers varying the opacity just to enhance the depth of the scene. Although it made the photo darker I raised the contrast to help even out the banding (but you could further fine tune that out with a little more time spent). In the areas which I thought needed a bit more deepening of shadows I used the burn tool/brush = I like using the size 300 airbrush reduced to whatever size works on the area. In areas I wanted to lighten I used the dodge tool the same way. I played with the color versions and added a warmer yellow and red tone to the entire pic just slightly. Areas which needed smoothing I used the blur tool/brush. After all adjustments I tried out the auto contrast and auto color corrrect to top it off and got what you see here with a lot of coloring back to a very faded original photo. It could be further enhanced if you wished to spend more time on it. I wouldn't write off this pic.
---Maya