Post processing Example

Hi there, for those interested, here's a little example of what to do or what "buttons should be pressed" for what I think is a regular Digital Post process.

As you can see in the first image, the RAW file, there was a lot to be improved, the white stain (an Ibis) behind the vutulre had to go: What I did was just copy and paste some grass from the other side of the image and pasted over the Ibis, then carefully cloned the untidyness.
Also as you can see, although the EXP doesn't look that bad, the contrast and color were a bit off: so those are other things to play with, just with levels, or curves, and a bit (if you dare) of color balance, this "errors"can be easilly corrected or improved.
Now, the background looks good, baut it has a very light green line all across, so with an adjustment layer a a mask on it, I selected and darken that light green line trying of course to make it look more like the rest of the BG colors intensity.
I also selected the Vulture and corrected his color balance as he did look a bit green, so this way, buy doing this, I get better contrast with the BG green color.
Yo cannot tell because of the small size of the picture, ut I also cleaned up some dust and water drops that didn't look good. And finally in the Third image, you can see the final version.

My engleish is very bad but I hope this helps in someway to those that don't really know where or what to start retuching in their own photos.

Have a nice day!!!

PS: I don't know if this post should've gone in the "Digital Photography Workflow" forum. Sorry.

And here's a larger version of the final "cut"
Hope it helps!

Enjoy!

Ramon, this probably would have got more attention in the digital workflow forum. I love what you're trying to demonstrate to others, though. Good job!

Great examples, Ramon, I would move this to the Edu Forum after it's been here for a while :)

Gracias!

If you think it will help, sure, move it! Thanks Fabs!

Thanks for the post It is educational !!! We should do more of these !!!!

Roman, its a wonderful image. Perfectly treated in PP. I surely learnt quite a bit from this post. Thank you so much for sharing this.