Hi Paul, I never tried cloning and manipulating a photo in such a manner. I gave it a try using some of my own patented techniques <yeah, right!>. What do you think?
http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/cloneshower.jpg Good or bad, your instructions provided the impetus to give it a try. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist > To increase canvas size in PhotoShop, just go to the "Image" pull- > down menu at top, then select Canvas size. It will show the current > size. Just make the vertical size one inch bigger and select okay. > This will give you a half inch of canvas at the top and bottom. Then > use your clone tool, selecting a brush that is just about half the > size of the empty canvas strip. Set the brush at maximum softness and > pick up parts of the bottom row of hay stubble and start laying it > into the half inch space. Don't use the section directly above the > empty canvas. Mix it up, so you can't notice any repitition. You can > place little bits in here and there to eliminate any pieces that are > obvious repeats. When working right below the bale you may have to > increase hardness some and use a smaller brush to avoid any overlap. > If you wish, you can blur the foreground a little bit, although it > shouldn't be necessary. Eliminating the bale is a bit harder, since > you have to extend the one behind it. But it's certainly doable. You > can see the entire top edge of the bale behind the offender, so it's > just a matter of cloning in the part below it. You would use some of > the existing bale to do that. You would have to create a right-side > edge, but that's not very difficult if you work in small pieces, and > check your edge lighting in respect to other bales. The way to become > proficient at these things is to do it. Just make sure you save your > work with a different filename. Then you can always go back to the > original. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
