A bit of retouching.

[Geoff]

I posted an image yesterday in the "post photos you took today" thread, one of them had a builders van which was a bit distracting. I had a few minutes to spare today so I painted out the van, as well as a car, 8 people, some signs, and a wheelbarrow.

Here's the before and after:




I think it is an improvement as my eye is now drawn to the main house instead of the white van. (Perhaps we could have a new competition in the forum called Spot the Difference).

Regards,

Geoff.

[Pops]

Re: A bit of retouching.

Definately an improvement

[Barr1e]

Re: A bit of retouching.

I get enjoyment when using brush/cloning tool etc.

You have improved an already nicely taken image of the house (apart from white man van ).

Nice job Geoff.

Regards. Barr1e

[andym]

Re: A bit of retouching.

Bloomin white vans,there always seems to be one about when you want to take a picture.
Yes much better without.

I'm interested why your using ISO640,I know your Nikon is good at higher ISO but I'd have thought base was best in daylight.

[Geoff]

Re: A bit of retouching.

Thanks Pops Barrie & Andy for your comments.

The reason I used ISO 640 for that shot was mainly because I forgot to change it after the sun came out It was quite dull until a few minutes before and I also prefer a slightly faster film speed when out and walking about taking snaps to ensure that the shutter speed is adequate. I believe that one of the strong points with modern digital cameras is the reduction in noise using a high film speed compared to a few years ago.

Last week I was using my camera indooors using ISO3200 and a wide aperture which, using aperture priority, was giving me 1/60sec shutter speed in a dull room. When I went out in the sun I forgot to change my settings and took a few pictures before I realised. The pictures were not great but were all usable after a bit of noise reduction. The example below was taken at 1/6400 sec at f5.6



Geoff.

[Ian]

Re: A bit of retouching.

Nice job Geoff Content Aware Removal in some versions of Photoshop and now in CyberLink PhotoDirector 4 can also make cloning out unwanted objects surprisingly easy

I'm always cursing myself after having changed camera settings for an unusual shot and not changing them back later!

Ian

[Geoff]

Re: A bit of retouching.

Nice job Geoff Content Aware Removal in some versions of Photoshop and now in CyberLink PhotoDirector 4 can also make cloning out unwanted objects surprisingly easy

Ian

Thanks Ian, Ive not upgraded fro Photoshop CS4 yet so I don't have the benefit of Content Aware Removal tools so I still use the "old fashioned" methods. I've seen it in action but there are a lot of things that it can not do. Here's another bit of retouching that I've just done. I don't think the content aware tools could have done this



Regards,

Geoff.