My first "major to me editing"

[mj702002]

Hopefully I will upload in the right order...first should be a copy of the original and the second should be my edit. I used the "blue skies" thing and did my best to remove the jump in the foreground.
I would like to see what you can do...and also how you did it and why!:)

This is the orig.

http://www.proudphotography.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=192&pictureid=1389


My attempt at editing is PSE 7

http://www.proudphotography.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=192&pictureid=1390

Ohh, I did use a part of a shot from another picture that had a jump that was facing the same as the part removed...will get that uploaded if you need it!
Thanks!

[mj702002]

Here is a shot for the "jump" if you need it

http://www.proudphotography.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=192&pictureid=1392

[Pat]

Hi mj. First off, this was a little difficult to work on as it was quite small. I like to magnify areas that I'm working on and this pic became quite pixelated at even moderate magnification.
OK. Methodology: First, of course, was massive and often minute cloning (a fair bit of single pixel level cloning) to get rid of the foreground jump. I used the footing from the third pic and applied quite a bit of skewing and scaling in an attempt to fit it in. I'm not quite satisfied with the result, but the working material was limited.
I then applied a split tone overlay: blue on the upper half, a creamy orange-yellow on the bottom, followed by a soft 10% erasure of the clouds to a lower, original layer; merged the layers. Applied a 100% blur to the blue area of the sky.
Then I blurred out (100%) and cloned out jpeg artifacts along the tree/sky line. Finally, I boosted shadows 50% at a tonal width of 50% and a radius of 30 pixels, in Photoshop cs4.
For your first attempt, you picked a doozy. :)

[mj702002]

Thanks Pat...Yours is a whole lot better than what I tried! The picture size? I didn't resize it...should I have just put the link in from photoshop?

[coffee]

I took a different approach to it. There was still some work to do on the right bottom to clean things up, but ran out of time.

[Pat]

....... The picture size? I didn't resize it...should I have just put the link in from photoshop?
Although it appears bigger on your first post in this thread, if you left click on it and check "properties" it shows as 600 X 400 pixels, the size I got when I downloaded it.
Generally speaking, for posting on the web, i work on my images at 700 or 800 pixels on the long axis, but I never do that degree of cloning. (little if any, actually, for a photo site).
Note: If you open and save a jpeg (or jpg) image repeatedly in photoshop, you will lose quality each time due to jpeg compression. If I find I have to do this I ramp up the jpeg "quality" slider to the max in a subequent save. Not entirely sure to what degree this may help, but it would seem to stand to reason.
Note 2: I'm not sure what you mean by "link...from photoshop", or if it's even possible, but it sounds like a major security breach. You wouldn't want to provide a link to your computer from a public forum. :cool:

[mj702002]

It looks like I lost a lot in uploading to here...this is what the original shot was/is...I had just converted it from raw and saved in highest quality...then uploaded it to here.
Image size
3888 x 2592
File Size
5454 KB

[mj702002]

Thanks Joseph...Doing what you did seems like for me (just learning how to work with that program) would have been easier as you removed the base of the jump standard and of course cleaned it up where the jump in the foreground was!

How did you guys keep the shadow...or did you add it back?

[verikos]

I took a different approach to it. There was still some work to do on the right bottom to clean things up, but ran out of time.


Great edit Joseph.