Advice plz

[DinoNuggets]

So i'm in photography class and me being new to this kind of art same with photoshop i was wondering what could make this image better looking cause my teacher told me today that it looks somewhat boring. this is my photo

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[0l3n]

Im guessing your allowed to use photoshop right?


If so, you could try to do something along the lines of:

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[Grounded]

well the plastic bag on the left takes too much atention! and it shows nothing! thats why ur teacher says its boring!

and ol3n has a nice idea! u can play with it that way!

[DinoNuggets]

that looks really cool could you tell me what you did there? im new to photoshop...

[0l3n]

Well, first thing I did was to slap on a B&W gradient map because, well, the colors were a bit dull and bland.

Sharpened/blurred.

After that, some extensive use of the burn/dodge tools and I used a brightness/contrast layer.

Lastly I added the red color and set it to... god, cant remember what I set it to, nevermind just experiment, and I added some black and white brushing on the sides with a large soft brush.

Not really detailed but its the best I can do at 2am.

[DinoNuggets]

Well, first thing I did was to slap on a B&W gradient map because, well, the colors were a bit dull and bland.

Sharpened/blurred.

After that, some extensive use of the burn/dodge tools and I used a brightness/contrast layer.

Lastly I added the red color and set it to... god, cant remember what I set it to, nevermind just experiment, and I added some black and white brushing on the sides with a large soft brush.

Not really detailed but its the best I can do at 2am.

alright sounds cool i'll play around with the stuff you just told me when i go back to school monday
i'll post a final picture soon by tuesday or thursday