my first attempt at PP

[wckeep]

Originally Posted by Jae

Very nice job! When I looked closer to where the leash was though I did notice some blue spots. I know this is not the critique thread so feel free to delete if necessary. Just thought you might want to know.

no by all means. the pics i want heavy criticism for i put in the other sections, but the pics i put here i still like to hear feedback for. thank you for the input!

[wckeep]

Originally Posted by chireau

If you wouldnt have said it was PP, probably would have being unnoticed.


Human eye is really good a detecting repeating paterns, and other visual quirks.

Many says that it's all in the sampling, and choosing right brush size (choose one that will take the least amount of "stamping" to achieve the cloning process).




Again, nice job!

so your saying i would benefit from using a larger brush size?

[chireau]

Well, as much as possible!

Some situations will require smaller more repetitive stamping to get a good result, (depending on texture, etc). I guess we learn to dose this over time.

But that's how I learned it in school. The reason is because you need to use a smooth transition brush (0% hardness), or else you will see the brush strokes... but then each stamp makes some sort of blur around it as a transition... the more strokes the more blurry it get and you loose the original texture.

Also, for skintones, just try to use the healing tool instead! It works magic on the subject's face!

For larger sufaces, copy a portion of another area that you SEE will fill almost perfectly (patern and tint/color etc). Then fine tune with level, curves, brightness / contrast etc etc... And some more stamp tool to blend the edge perfectly!.

Thats why is was saying its all in the right sized brush and choosing the right sampling for the cloning process (using numerous and especially combined different selection methods!!! You can even select by color range, etc etc...).

Have fun PP'ing! (i'm loving it!).

[chireau]

If you learn ONE thing in Photoshop...


SELECTION METHODS!!


Anything else is a combination of this...

[jocelynaz]

I think you did a great job with the PP! Congratulations! I agree with a previous post that many people will not notice where you cloned the leash out. Wonderful job...

[wckeep]

Originally Posted by chireau

Well, as much as possible!

Some situations will require smaller more repetitive stamping to get a good result, (depending on texture, etc). I guess we learn to dose this over time.

But that's how I learned it in school. The reason is because you need to use a smooth transition brush (0% hardness), or else you will see the brush strokes... but then each stamp makes some sort of blur around it as a transition... the more strokes the more blurry it get and you loose the original texture.

Also, for skintones, just try to use the healing tool instead! It works magic on the subject's face!

For larger sufaces, copy a portion of another area that you SEE will fill almost perfectly (patern and tint/color etc). Then fine tune with level, curves, brightness / contrast etc etc... And some more stamp tool to blend the edge perfectly!.

Thats why is was saying its all in the right sized brush and choosing the right sampling for the cloning process (using numerous and especially combined different selection methods!!! You can even select by color range, etc etc...).

Have fun PP'ing! (i'm loving it!).

thank you so much i will definately take what you said and apply it towards my next photoshop job

[zetson]

For a second I thought you had added the leash, LOL, since it was presented last...

Very nice cloning. If you didn't know it was cloned out, it wouldn't have showed.

[murfam]

Very good work, the result was well worth the time and effort.

[wckeep]

i thought i'd update everyone a little. in another thread someone made a suggestion about some pp work that should get done on my photo. so i thought i would point everyone in that direction to see one of my follow up attempts.

diving into his bunker

[blejavac]

my brain expected the 1st photo to be before PP so I was surprised to see some1 put the leash on a dog in PS - lmao! then I read around the photos and figured it out. glad I was "fooled" w/ job well done..
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