On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:48:41 -0500, "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.invalid>
wrote:

>bolo wrote:
>> "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.invalid> wrote:
>>> bolo wrote:
>>>> "dvus" <dven1@adelphia.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> bolo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Spent a few very brief hours in Garden District of New Orleans a
>>>>>> couple days ago. Beautiful scenery. I was so excited snapping
>>>>>> away i did not realize i needed to adjust my polerazation filter
>>>>>> to remove the glare. Any suggestions on fixing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.cadotonic.com/garden
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I appreciate any suggestions i can get. Granny, KatWoman,
>>>>>> Colin???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> My stab at it:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/...6686236964202][img=http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/45515/2000126686236964202_th.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> (sorry about the 2 mile long url, it's a freebie)
>>>
>>>> I could not see anything here. Thanks for the attempt, could you
>>>> tell me what you did to fix it?
>
>>> [please don't top-post in here, it's a pain to reformat]
>>>
>>> It'd be a lot easier to tell you if you could see it, but of course,
>>> like anything free, that image site doesn't work very intuitively.
>>> Let me try another and I'll tell you what I did. You'll probably get
>>> better work from the pros in here anyway.
>>>
>>> Wait, that url above is doubled up or something. Lemme try half of
>>> it... http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/...26686236964202
>>> seems to work ok.
>
>> Actually devus, it looks great, now tell me what you did. I teach a
>> beginning photoshop class, and i use these things you all tell me in
>> my class.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>
>[*please* don't top-post in here, it's a pain to reformat]
>
>Ok. I simply grabbed a chunk of the shutter/wall above the flare with the
>rectangular marquis, copied it and pasted it on top of the flare. I actually
>forgot to feather it a little so I got those faint horizontal lines you can
>see. The resolution of the original is pretty low, so you wouldn't want to
>feather it more than a pixel or two. Then I used the clone tool to clean up
>around the paste a little along with the dodge and burn tools at low
>settings to avoid over-fix.
>
>The faint flare above the window was easy since there's good image info
>within, the burn tool at low settings took that right out. I thought about
>masking it and using some adjustment like layers or darken/lighten but it's
>easier to avoid edge artifacts if you do it by hand.
>
>I noticed the glare on the back of the fence was a bit much so I selected
>one area of it with the magic wand and then used Select/Similar to get the
>rest. The trick for me is to experiment with the tolerance of the wand since
>it also adjusts the tolerance of the Select/Similar operation. (I think I
>used 16). I went into QuickMask mode to paint out some sections of the house
>that got selected but I didn't want to touch and then used the Burn tool to
>calm down the bright highlights a little.
>
>That's pretty much it, if it were mine I'd adjust the Levels and bump up the
>saturation slightly, but I'm assuming you have a higher resolution original
>that you're going to work on so I didn't bother. However, keep in mind that
>some of these guys in here are much more accomplished with Photoshop than I,
>so you ought to wait and see if they have better advice. I'm just an amateur
>that does it for fun.

Too bad you couldn't change the composition.


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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida