Need Help Adjusting Outdoor Background

[apexmotion]

Can someone critique the adjustment of the outdoor image on this comp? I posted the original background image and a Photoshop adjusted background. It seems to me it should be more desaturated and lighter like this, but I think I've been staring at this too long. Something just looks wrong to me. Any comments?

Before background image adjustment


After background image adjustment


Any help is appreciated. I need to get this image to our client tomorrow. Yikes.....

-- Rob

[chicoone]

Pick a point between the two images posted. Because you see really good definition in all the internal lights and by the floor light patterns the image say daylight, lighten background but not that much as it really then does not match in my opinion.

Ismael

[apexmotion]

Here's an image about halfway between....

[gadzooks]

I think one problem may be is that the image outside does not match your exterior lighting. The image looks as though its an overcast day. But yet you have sun coming in the windows on the doors. Maybe a diffrent image? Or same image but on a sunny day? Nice rendering B.T.W. Gadzooks

[Aneurisma]

I think your first correction is ok, just raise the contrast a tiny bit and should be fine. The level of desaturation is good also because you don't want people to be staring at the outside, right?

Cheers

[Spikeadeliv]

Use Photoshop

Use Photoshop or whatever and pump some yellow (Ctrl B) in hilites (not too much) into BG image will lighten and look sunny.

[mcphep]

this is always a tricky one. You could place a plane outside the window with the outside tile texture, see how that looks rendered and correct your image to suit.

[dellis]

I would replace the sky in photoshop for the background image and do some colour correction toward sunny daylight.....get rid of the overcast.