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hil26

Went to Bodelwyddan Castle for a show, lighting was awful, up at ISO 640 to get some decent shutter speeds, blown sky.

had a play in CS3 - bit of cloning/moving horse etc and new sky

so soes it pass muster as they say?
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creators · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:25 am Post subject:

Very nice job Dave, looks seamless to me.
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hil26 · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

Thanks Keith
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Gilly · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:54 am Post subject:

so ummmmm it looks great, but how the heck did you do that Confused

in plain old English please, so as not to loose us non computer minded folks!

Ta much Smile

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creators · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:45 am Post subject:

I'm sure this has been covered on the forum and I remember Blue coming up with a brilliant way of removing the background but I can't find a single post covering it except one Dave did in Raw, let's hope Dave is not as ga ga as me. Smilie_PDT

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hil26 · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:05 am Post subject:

I'll try and get time to expand on this later but in essence, I was using Photoshop CS3 - but do believe that the process can be repeated in other editing programs.

RAW image was processed to expose for the foreground - sky was just a grey blank in the image.

I then used select by colour range - and selected all the different greys of the sky.

I then unselected the bits in the colour that were not sky related.

Then deleted the selection. This leaves just leaves the foreground - I had to redo process a few times as I was not getting it right at first.

I found a sky I liked - one that looked like it was right for the lighting on the foreground.

Copied it to a layer, place that layer below the foreground layer.

Result was OK but lots of halo all around the tree and between the branches were the original sky had been removed.

I then flattened the layers

Then used a duplicate layer to play around with selection of areas.

Whilst an area is selected, used replace colour selection to replace the blues and whites with a colour from the branch/leaves. Did this a lot, as I was working on small areas to get rid of the halos - needed to get deep into the image at some stages - that is looking at single pixels.

I will try and repeat what I did, along with some screenshots, when I get a chance.

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