Tony,

What do you mean by that? Interested in constructive criticism.

Thanks in advance.
"tony cooper" <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:7991t3hqpt37hg368ta7j5b9tsmdvonfe8@4ax.com...
> 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