Replacing artificial background with sky

[PhilM]

Hi Acorn,

Thanks. Yes, I should have had more faith in the background erase function! I was avoiding it because I didn't think it would handle the holes in the trees very well.

After background erase I had to repaint the ridge line and magic-erase an artefact at the end of the street. The trees are a bit fuzzy around the edges but I think it looks OK:

[gwpriester]

Looks convincing.

[Acorn]

PhilM, you can then use the Clone/Stamp to sharpen up some of the outer leaves.
The aerial upright needs a but more of a sharp edge but all good otherwise.

You can almost see Gaddesden Place in the distance.

I assume you visited Pendon Museum - https://pendonmuseum.com/3d-photograph-collection.

Acorn

[Boy]

Very nice scene and the new sky looks pretty good but there's still a bit of ceiling to be seen at the right (and a bit at the left) side of the left chimney. There's also some left between the tree on the right and the roof.

Is that an aerial on top of the middle chimney? It looks a bit off, especially with the puff of cloud at the top.

[PhilM]

Improvements as suggested, thanks (but I left the cloud alone):


Yes, Acorn, I visited Pendon on Saturday for the first time. It's a wonderful, inspirational place if you're a GWR railway modeller.

I took some focus stacks using my SmartPhone and merged them using (ahem) Affinity Photo to give greater depth of field. Camelot / Designer Pro sadly doesn't have that ability yet.

I have a few more stacks to process.

[handrawn]

that is looking good

[Boy]

Improvements as suggested, thanks (but I left the cloud alone):

Looks crispier now.

[bwood]

Improvements as suggested, thanks (but I left the cloud alone):


Yes, Acorn, I visited Pendon on Saturday for the first time. It's a wonderful, inspirational place if you're a GWR railway modeller.

I took some focus stacks using my SmartPhone and merged them using (ahem) Affinity Photo to give greater depth of field. Camelot / Designer Pro sadly doesn't have that ability yet.

I have a few more stacks to process.

That really looks good @philm. A great job and representation of what Pro + can do. I wish I had a little more time to really delve into the photo components of Xara. One of these days I’ll retire a few clients and work on photos.
-Bill

[MarcT]

Nice to see you are finally learning the program.

Of course I'm joking, you have the ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE !!!!

Marc