Basilique du Sacré Coeur Paris, France

This old slide was scanned using a nikon coolscan v and photoshopped

slightly, including changing to grayscale and adjusting contrast and

levels. I am pleased with the result so far but feel it could be

much better. Any and all comments or ideas are welcome. Thanks.

Just guessing by what I see here, but it looks like you could really add impact to this image by punching up the contrast, especially in the midtones. I played with this in ps and I'll up load a copy of what I did.

 

Made two duplicate layers of the background. One layer I ran through "highpass" filter, under "other" in the filters, set blending mode to "hard light" and adjusted opacity down to about 50-60 %. Second layer I ran through "Custom" under "other" in filters and used default settings. Used "Normal" for blending mode and set opacity to about 56%.

 

I was working with a small jpeg in 8-bit mode, so artifacts were accentuated, but if you start with a good 16 bit image you should get good results. Try to get some detail in that hotspot just to the right of that large dome.

 

Nice image!

By the way, I also had a curves layer to bright the image slightly. Put my dot in the center of the line and adjusted slightly left and to the right.