Photoshop your sign pics?

[Mergingtraffic]

Those that take road/sign pics...do you photoshop your pics at all? For example do you use anything for sign color or to make the buttons in button copy stand out?

Or have you gone all out and made a cloudy sky  a sunny blue one?
Or have you ever over killed your photo with photoshop layers?

I ask because I use an iphone 4 for my pics, nothing fancy, but a day may come when I want to fix up my pics

[formulanone]

I'll tinker with them a little - usually just removing excessive blue or green or adding some contrast.

I've only tried layers once, but the effect felt a little cheap:

[Alps]

I'll GIMP in some brightness for a particularly dark photo, and I do use some stretching tools for odd-angle photos to make signs more square, but that's about it.

[NE2]

In before RaymondYu.

[dgolub]

Not extensively.  I'll crop and resize my pictures, and in some of my older pictures I've removed the windshield wipers or rearview mirror and replaced them with pavement or sky.

[AsphaltPlanet]

I photoshop most of my images before putting them online.  I usually play with the colour, or rotate them slightly to try to improve how they look.  I enjoy messing around with photoshop.

Sometimes I try to remove overhead hydro lines from photos that I think are in the way as well:

before:


after:

[Truvelo]

I'm a member on another road forum where you have to guess the locations of pictures. Because some of them are obvious I've taken to heavily modifying the surroundings. Here I've made a suburban location look rural. I've even changed the colour of the bus because someone will recognise the operator.

[jeffandnicole]

I'm a member on another road forum where you have to guess the locations of pictures. Because some of them are obvious I've taken to heavily modifying the surroundings. Here I've made a suburban location look rural. I've even changed the colour of the bus because someone will recognise the operator.

Personally, that's taking it way too far.  If you have to guess the location, the surroundings are an integral part of the location.

[Truvelo]

Personally, that's taking it way too far.  If you have to guess the location, the surroundings are an integral part of the location.

True, but there's a very knowledgeable bunch on that forum who will recognise the location instantly if I didn't erase the surroundings.

[kkt]

True, but there's a very knowledgeable bunch on that forum who will recognise the location instantly if I didn't erase the surroundings.

From MASH:

Hawkeye: - G.R., right?
BJ: - "G.R.," right.
- An actor.
- An actor.
- A living American actor.
- Right.
- G.R., George Raft.
- He's just a living American.
-All right. All right. All right. All right. Uhh. Gene Raymond.
- Nope.
- Uh. Gregory Ratoff.
- Nope.
- Ya give?
- Give.
- Gerald Rassmussen.
- Who is Gerald Rassmussen?
- He was my high school drama teacher. Terrific actor.
- Who ever heard of him?
- Everybody, if he hadn't died.
- You said living American.
- If I'd said dead, you'd have guessed Gerald just like that.
- You're mental.

[KEK Inc.]

Personally, that's taking it way too far.  If you have to guess the location, the surroundings are an integral part of the location.

True, but there's a very knowledgeable bunch on that forum who will recognise the location instantly if I didn't erase the surroundings.

Doctoring a photo to make it look like it's truly rural sort of invalidates the game.  I think blurring or pixelating obvious clues is better.

[jeffandnicole]

Personally, that's taking it way too far.  If you have to guess the location, the surroundings are an integral part of the location.

True, but there's a very knowledgeable bunch on that forum who will recognise the location instantly if I didn't erase the surroundings.

I think you just need harder locations to identify.  Or crop the photo.