Lace in photoshop

[perlab06]

I NEED HELP!!   i have this maternity picture, i want to turn it into high key , but my floor is showing through the lace of the dress, i am a newbee at this photoshop thing! PLEASE help with any ideas... Towasrds the bottom the lace looks weird and has some unwanted artifacts that i know wouldnt print well... Any help is much appreciated. Thank You

[bzareenk]

Can you elaborate more on that?

Which unwanted artifacts are you referring to?

[perlab06]

on the knee the lace looks like some black spots on it

Bahaar Khan​

[bzareenk]

You can adjust the curves and make it look more white so that the lace is visible!

[perlab06]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[bzareenk]

Welcome. Please mark the answer correct if it helped you!

[Terri_Stevens]

your image is quite underexposed and can be corrected as Bahaar has said, but it is also far to highly compressed and if you look at it closely you can see the characteristic mosquito artefacts due to the jpeg compression. I would suggest boosting the net contrast of the image a little like below. Just ask if you require further assistance, but you will get better results if you work on the image in an uncompressed file format.

[perlab06]

i have it in raw form, i added a jpeg here because it wouldnt allow me a higher resolution... there's other thing wrong on the image im just going to give up on it.. i cant get sharp etc..

thank you for the help

[Terri_Stevens]

What you could try is using Silver Efex Pro which is part of the Google Nik collection of plugins. It comes with a series of presets that work very well with B/W images. The image on the left uses the neutral preset and has been sharpened a little, the one on the right is your original. You do get a lot more of the girl's face revealed. With a Raw file without the artefacts should give reasonable results. The Nik collection is free by the way.

Google Nik Collection

[perlab06]

thank you Ms. Stevens i appreciate that. i will give it a try. have a great day