Picture Editing

[Blaupunkt]

below are 2 pictures of the alamo, the 1st is origonal and the 2nd is my edited version, i was hoping someone could point out some techniques and things to try when trying this type of editing.

i personally think this came out resonably good for my 1st "big" project, but im sure it could be done better, i had to be alittle creative with the fence towards the right hand side.

i used MS Digital Image Pro 10 to edit the pics.

Origonal Picture


Edited Version

[slipe]

You did a nice job on the cloning. The edited image looks to be overly sharpened to me. The foliage looks better in the original – probably because of sharpening.

[Blaupunkt]

thanks, about the sharpening though, im never to sure whats enough, to much or even not enough, is there a "rule of thumb" kind of thing to go by when sharpening images ?

[Widowmaker]

The sharpness of the original seems right on. Good cloning with the exception hand rail area. The horizontal bar is not ined up all the way across and duplicate cloning spots are seen in the same area.

[Carrots]

The foliage looks better in the original, but I like the texture of the building better in the sharpened version.

[mgipe]

Amazing! Could you also take out the hand rail?

[Blaupunkt]

yep, i guess i could have taken it out, would have made it easier as daft as it sounds the little hand rail gave me the most problems.

i guess it all comes down to experiance and trial and error and trying different things.