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Post by John on Dec 7, 2015 22:21:32 GMT
Thanks for the responses. Excellent advice here. Great help. John, you are most welcome! Hope these suggestions will work for you. Preciate you taking the time to look at my problem and helping. With me, when people help me its like throwing spaghetti at the wall. Some of it sticks and the rest slides off. I tried to select the limbs in my photo to put the sky behind but it won't select the individual limbs. I hope I've missed a setting with the sliders but I followed Morganti's tutorial carefully. I think its a great tutorial and a powerful tool if I can make it work. Anymore hints? Feel free to work on my bridge photo if you have time.
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John
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Post by John on Dec 6, 2015 16:26:22 GMT
Thanks for the responses. Excellent advice here. Great help.
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John
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Post by John on Dec 5, 2015 17:00:13 GMT
Just uploaded a bridge photo in sloaners gallery. Trying to make the sky look a little better but all the limbs are in the way. Any suggestions on how I can improve it other than cropping out them out?
Love taking pictures but doubt if I'll ever get good at post processing.
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John
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Post by John on Dec 2, 2015 14:21:03 GMT
Welcome. Lots of help and advice available here.
What part of Jolly Olde do you hail from?
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John
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Post by John on Nov 20, 2015 15:14:38 GMT
The state of the forum is good. KUDOS to all administrators.
The only issue I have is with the galleries. Its cumbersome to scroll thru the old ones to get to the latest post so is it possible to have the latest post displayed first? Would eliminate the need for me to delete my older posts as often.
Thanks
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John
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Post by John on Nov 2, 2015 20:57:42 GMT
Just posted a waterfall pic in my gallery and I have a post processing question. This shot is SOOC, and when I start processing it, would it look better with the limbs in the foreground removed? Any advice appreciated. John
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John
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Post by John on Oct 14, 2015 21:31:10 GMT
Are you using the clone tool or are you using the brush tool? They work entirely differently. Using the brush tool to cover up an area won't work like the clone tool. I'm going to assume when you mentioned 'brush' you were referring to the brush choice when using the clone tool not that you used the regular brush tool for this purpose. To start with -- you aren't removing anything with the clone tool, you are covering up by putting something new over the area. By saying something is left over when you use the clone leads me to think you are not using the clone tool. However, it could just be that the brush you are using with the clone tool is a soft one and you are seeing feathering around your cloning. Wherever there is a feathered area of your clone, there will be less opacity and your original area will show through that feathered area. When using the clone tool, you choose what part of your photo you will use to stamp over the area you are fixing. You hold down the alt/option key and click on an area and you grab a part of that area - the area you 'grabbed' is then stamped over the area you wish to cover up. You move over to the area and click - this stamps whatever you choose with the alt/option key OVER the area you wish to cover up. Careful cloning choice should prevent shadowing. Making frequent new choices while cloning should help, too. Changing the choice size while cloning will help you finesse it. Your problem is probably brush choice. Choosing a different brush to clone with may help. A brush with a soft edge will leave an area of softness around your cloning. This is a good thing when you are cloning things like leaves, etc., but not good if you want to clone a hard edge. Changing to a hard edged brush to clone a hard edge, should help. There are also different modes for the clone tool - I usually use normal, so I'm not familiar with how the other modes act. However, your problem may be that you are using one of the other modes. If after all this - you still think the clone tool is acting funny, try resetting the tool. If the tool options are at the bottom of your screen in your version of PSE, you will find reset at the far right of your tool options bar. It looks like a few lines - click on that and 'reset' is an option. If your option bar is at the top of your screen, you'll have to look around for reset, I don't remember where it is on older versions of PSE. Once you reset it, it will go back to the most used options - so that might be a good place to learn how to use the clone tool because the settings will be at their best choice. Thanks for taking the time to answer. Had no idea I could reset the tools so easily. Your answer was spot on and it seems to correct my problems. Now for a confession. I said it was a brush I was having problems with. That's not completely true. It was the Clone stamp and the Spot Healing Brush tool. If I had given you the right information it may have made your answer easier. Again, thanks. You're dealing with a cyber challenged operator here. John
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John
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Post by John on Oct 14, 2015 11:26:31 GMT
When removing bright colored items from a photo, the brush and stamp leaves smudges and ghosts on the image. Is there a secret to using these tools I don't know? I have the opacity set at 100, is there another setting I should change?
Thanks John
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Post by John on Sept 20, 2015 21:54:02 GMT
ok, I didn't realise. But it's difficult and nearly impossible to give meaningful critiques of web images unless you look at the actual data because the image will appear slightly differently on every screen, especially if screens are uncalibrated. eg..I read alexr suggests darkening the highlights but when I look at the rgb values of the bird's breast region in sloaner's posted image I see they are virtually all 255,255,255 (pure white) and so darkening the highlights will have little, if any, effect at all and certainly won't restore any detail. Hopefully the original photo, before any PP, has more detail. sloaner: if you have the original SOOC photo and if you would like to post it I or someone else might be able to advise on PP it. bosely Thanks for taking the time on my shot. I have no problem with you editing my files as long as you don't mess with my original. I'll dig the SOOC file out and post it. John
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John
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Post by John on Sept 10, 2015 12:39:52 GMT
Das Rathaus Nice shot. Very clear.
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John
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Post by John on Sept 8, 2015 13:48:01 GMT
Hi John I've just been to my gallery to see what options there are and I see 'Edit' to the right, above the image. Click that and you can delete your photo and any comments you made but that will presumably leave an 'empty' post. I suspect that's not quite what you want, though. One of the other folks who are much more knowledgeable and experience than I am will surely be along soon and can let both of us know the answer I do like your panoramas that you've just posted though, as well as the previous ones. Such a shame if you take your images away Julie Julie Thanks for the compliment today. I'm in a good mood now. John
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John
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Post by John on Sept 8, 2015 13:46:11 GMT
John....You should be able to remove the post with the images you don't want by clicking the little gear and from the dropdown menu ......select remove post. Helen Thanks, life is good again.
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John
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Post by John on Sept 8, 2015 13:00:28 GMT
Now that I've found out how to add files to my gallery, is there a way to remove them?
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John
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Post by John on Aug 29, 2015 13:29:05 GMT
Has a much more natural look, sloaner. Your background is nicely blurred and the feeder is sharply in focus. Thanks. Hard to get a yellow jacket to pose.
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John
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Post by John on Aug 29, 2015 13:26:16 GMT
Nice one!!! Thanks Julie
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