Originally Posted by
Bill Dix
Thanks Craig. PS workflow as follows: carefully selected the bird; created a 'layer via cut'; used clone stamp on the bg to fill in the void left by the cut; created a duplicate file, in which I mirrored the cut bird layer; dragged that back to the original file; nudged and rotated until the position of the feet on the branch matched the original; did a little fine brush and clone work to make the shadows around the talons look realistic. The only problem then was that since the branch beneath his feet angled slightly, flipping him made him face downward in the revised version, so I rotated the entire image CW just a bit. I do have some images of him in his eponymous pose, but unfortunately not with the dogwood perch (and when I tried for more images a few days later, the dogwood flowers had wilted).