The August Tutorial discussion

[Gare]

I'll go first: there's a new video tutorial on the Xone

>>>here<<<

It's worth working through if you ever wanted to do some fun, fairly photorealistic retouching.

Okay, it's your turn.

-g

[stygg2003]

My first attempt at Birdhaus, learned a little more from this first part

Stygg

Seems a bit of centre this first image, uploaded image 2, sorry about that.

[germaine]

my trial
greetings

[Gare]

You show inventiveness!

Good submission, very original!

I've been known to get the bird from people over the years.

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

Great submissions from Stygg and Germaine!

I did this one making use of the eraser tool that is new in DPX and P&GD2013 The eraser tool when used with a soft nib makes it easy to blend photos together, I tucked a couple of bird houses behind branches by first cloning the background photo, then drawing a shape around the branch that I wanted to be over the bird house and select shape and cloned photo and ctrl +3. Then I went in with the eraser tool with a very soft nib and erased around the edges of the clipped branch and erased between the leaves etc so you could see the bird house peeking through.

Another technique I used was to adjust the lighting and add a bit of blur to the smaller birdhouses that I tucked behind branches to add to the illusion that they are further away.

[stygg2003]

Really great image Francis, looks like I'm missing out on a lot by not upgrading but I'm weakening by the image!

Stygg

[Gare]

Very funny, Frances!



Toucan play this game, you know!

-g

[angelize]

Ok here is the bird bath photo. I used the magic erase tool to remove the toucan all in one go and it worked better than I thought it would. I used a combination of magic erase and manual cloning to repair the bird bath and fix the surface of the water. I also made use of the right click flatten trick and I also used the shape builder with a very soft nib on the mask layer and adjusted the hue of the water to help blend my cloning.

Of course I couldn't resist adding Mr Toucan back in another spot (Hey I think he's cute) and a butterfly fluttered into the scene!

[Gare]

That's actually very good, Frances.

Bravo!

I disagree with the scale of the butterfly, but I'll lean toward "fantasy composition" here.

-g

[Big Frank]

very good frances