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photosbyvito · Jul 8, 2004, 11:08 PM

haha....if you want...i'll try, save you some work

but, i have to know first, how did you go about changing the sky? i mean, around the trees? feathered alot? or?

Vito

geoffs · Jul 8, 2004, 11:20 PM

I would like to know how you did that too because my eyes would have been popping out of their sockets after such a painstaking edit session!

mactek · Jul 9, 2004, 5:56 AM

I guess I didn't realize that was supposed to be difficult...
I used the magic wand to select the sky (which was mostly white around the trees), reduced the selection by 1 pixel so I wouldn't get any tree parts, and deleted it (the sky). I then copied the sky from a different photo, enlarged it so it would fill the entire area and pasted it into a layer behind the trees. It just worked.

Maybe I should changed the reflection to match the clouds now :idea:

mactek

ohenry · Jul 9, 2004, 8:17 AM

I'm not so sure that the reflection is all that far off. The angle of thecamera, angle of light, etc will alter reflections so ifone didn't see the original, I doubt they would be able to tell that the reflections were out of sync with the clouds without really close examination.

If I were to try to enhance this picture any, I would concentrate on trying to recover some of the details lost in the shadows without disturbing the highlights.

geoffs · Jul 9, 2004, 9:43 AM

mactek wrote:

Quote:

I guess I didn't realize that was supposed to be difficult...
I used the magic wand to select the sky

You must have the magic touch. Every time that I try to use the magic wand it never comes out that good :-(

iacopo · Jul 9, 2004, 5:25 PM

hope you don't mind if i used your shot to experiment a bit in PS. i have tried to "reconstruct" some clouds details adding some noise, then adding some distorsion, then blurring end then adjusting levels and saturation.....here is the result. i am not good with the magic wand as you can see :-(
iacopo

mactek · Jul 10, 2004, 8:43 PM

Ok, since I have had no luck enhancing the original sky, I went outside and took a new sky photo that was similar to the original sky. I then used the "extract" tool to remove the sky. Extract works even better than the magic wand!

Hope this one meets approval :-)

mactek

Jul 9, 2004, 5:25 PM	#16
iacopo Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 309	hope you don't mind if i used your shot to experiment a bit in PS. i have tried to "reconstruct" some clouds details adding some noise, then adding some distorsion, then blurring end then adjusting levels and saturation.....here is the result. i am not good with the magic wand as you can see :-( iacopo Attached Images

Jul 10, 2004, 8:43 PM	#17
mactek Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 347	Ok, since I have had no luck enhancing the original sky, I went outside and took a new sky photo that was similar to the original sky. I then used the "extract" tool to remove the sky. Extract works even better than the magic wand! Hope this one meets approval :-) mactek Attached Images

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Jul 8, 2004, 11:08 PM	#11
photosbyvito Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 5,710	haha....if you want...i'll try, save you some work but, i have to know first, how did you go about changing the sky? i mean, around the trees? feathered alot? or? Vito

Jul 8, 2004, 11:20 PM	#12
geoffs Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 2,025	I would like to know how you did that too because my eyes would have been popping out of their sockets after such a painstaking edit session!

Jul 9, 2004, 5:56 AM	#13
mactek Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 347	I guess I didn't realize that was supposed to be difficult... I used the magic wand to select the sky (which was mostly white around the trees), reduced the selection by 1 pixel so I wouldn't get any tree parts, and deleted it (the sky). I then copied the sky from a different photo, enlarged it so it would fill the entire area and pasted it into a layer behind the trees. It just worked. Maybe I should changed the reflection to match the clouds now :idea: mactek

Jul 9, 2004, 8:17 AM	#14
ohenry Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,676	I'm not so sure that the reflection is all that far off. The angle of thecamera, angle of light, etc will alter reflections so ifone didn't see the original, I doubt they would be able to tell that the reflections were out of sync with the clouds without really close examination. If I were to try to enhance this picture any, I would concentrate on trying to recover some of the details lost in the shadows without disturbing the highlights.