Photoshop tutorial: reducing tungsten dicolouration and photo shine.

This post is dedicated to teaching my self a few things in Photoshop. I don't know where to begin so if one wants to learn, one should teach. I'll be running through just experimenting seeing how certain tools work and how they enhance an image. 

This is the basic image that I'll be messing around with. Its a illustration done with biro.

Here all I have done is gone to Image → Auto colour. This has removed the dicolouration from the photo taken in indoor (tungsten) light. I have also cropped the image to remove some of the negative space around the illustration.

Here I have used the Burn tool all over the image to get rid of the shine from the photo. It has made the whole image a bit darker however it does still have a bit of shine on it but there isn't much more we can do about that.

Here I have used the Dodge tool to re-highlight the vivid red areas as they began to blend into black with the last step.

Here I have gone to Images → Adjustments →Exposure and put the Gamma correction to 0.79. This has made the image a lot darker without adjusting the contrast. After that I went over the vivid red areas again with the dodge tool. This image looks a lot less washed out than the previous.

I feel like this is a good base image to use for more obvious editing and enhancing.

Just messing around with filters, layers and whatnot...