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Well, when I was creating one of my first web sites
(www.thebluebirdranch.com),
I wanted to show off some of the tricks I did with Photoshop.
I got 25 pictures, most of which were decent enough to use
for the site, but there were some minor flaws to the pictures.
The most common problem is lighting. There are various filters
and adjustments I run to fix those. But, more recently, I
have begun to fix the pictures themselves. See below for examples. |
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This was
a good picture of the red barn. I really did not have
to do much to it except crop it and go. There was
one thing that bothered me about it. To the right
of the barn was a vehicle. So, using the clone stamp
tool, I was able to remove the vehicle and replace
it with some of the "natural " landscape |
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This was
a good picture of a potential herd sire for sale,
but it was behind a fence. When I cropped and resized
the picture, the fence was even more prominent. So,
I removed it, again with the clone stamp tool.
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Here was
a dark picture of Lil' Red. I brightened it and adjusted
the colors so you could see him a bit better.
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There are
some subtleties to this picture that I didn't like.
I knew I would crop it in a landscape fashion, but
that made a pole from the fence go right through the
doe's head. So, I removed the fence. Also, you may
be able to tell that there is a shadow on the doe's
face, caused from a piece of hay growing out of the
ground. I removed both the hay and the shadow. And,
P95 was too dark, so I cut him out, and fixed the
colors on his head and body to reflect better lighting. |
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Finally,
I had a good picture of the pond, and I had a good
picture of a doe. But I thought they would be better
together. Since the dried field has a dull color,
I spiced it up with a more vibrant orange/yellow feel.
Then, I cut out the doe and put her in a much better
place (at least I would rather be by the water than
in the other field). It is one of the tenets of tourism
photos. "Get a good one of me with the Eiffel
Tower in the background." No one wants to just
see pictures of me, and no one really wants me showing
them pictures of the Eiffel Tower, but somehow, putting
both of those together seems like a good picture.
Well, the bluebird on the fence seem seems to think
so. |
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