Monday, February 1, 2010

Taiwan 18

This is one in which I freely used creative license to tidy up a bit.

First, the boat swan had a number of scratches and marks that had to be removed.

Next, the real swan was originally further in the distance and a bit smaller. In Elements 7 it was selected out, copied, enlarged, and pasted to look as if it were closer. The selection ran about 15 pixels beyond the perimeter of bird itself (plus the smudge of reflection), with the soft-edged brush so that the water would blend when pasted. Finally, the void in the original location was cloned in with surrounding water.

It was fortuitous that the swan was captured in the background, and even more fortuitous that the enhancement described was made easy with today's technology.

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