Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Gothenburg Opera

Gothenburg Opera

The image appears in the article Gothenburg Opera and in the article Gothenburg. See reasons below at the previous image. Image created bu Wikimedia Commons user Erik031.

Nominate and support. - Krm500 22:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

My biggest concern is the quality of the image. There is a lot of noise that appears to be JPG artifact. Also, the boat in the foreground is distracting, and something about it doesn't have that strong of a wow factor. Maybe more dramatic colors or lighting, or maybe a different perspective, or maybe some levels adjustment in photoshop could help.--Andrew c 23:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have photoshop but since I'm using a six year old computer, Photoshop is not a program I prefer to open. And it's been a long time since I used it so I was hoping that someone here could spice the picture up a little. The wow factor isn't quite there (yet..) since the image is rather grey and dull right now. The boat is no concern to me, the guest harbor is located right next to the opera and the opera house was designed as looking like a boat from the water. Since I'm a local the boat actually gives the picture another level to me, it adds to the feeling of being close to the water. I hope someone could do their best work with the image since it has potential. --Krm500 22:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As far as "interest" goes for a featured encyclopedic image, I consider this pretty average. I'm also not quite in favour of the boat in front of the building. My primary concern si also quality; there is a huge amount of compresison artefacts in this image... If this is the original that the camera produced, you may be out of luck (ruined picture, and change your compression settings!) but otherwise, could you upload the original? A bit of playing around with colour levels and saturation could indeed spruce up the image. Note, however, that it's typically impossible to make dramatic changes to the "interest" of an image with this sort of manipulation. See the Edit 1 version for my subtle attempt, but with your JPEG compression, there's really not much I can do - any sharpening or processing just makes the artefacts worse. Dawidl 07:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm not the uploader of this image so I can't give you any better quality. Maybe if the image is sized down the compresions wont be as noticeable? --Krm500 12:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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