after yesterday's embarassment i have started to view my final images at 100%. i did the best job i know how on this image of a blue jay. if branches are considered, generally, as distracting, i must ask, is there a better way to get distracting things out of the way than cloning?
In addition to cloning, you can select a color in the BG and paint it in certain areas. You can burn (darken) and/or blur the BG also. You're always better off looking for perches with good BGs to start. It would help when you post photos if you could post the technical data (what type of camera, lens, and settings you're using). Thanks for posting!
Hi Mike Agree with Doug on the perch selection and btw little birds are about the hardest to photograph !!!
As presented I would crop a large portion of the bottom up to the perch itself. Would also like a slightly better head angle. Bg wise there is not much you can do but is not all that bad. Work to find them more open or set up your own .
btw it does make a difference going to sRBG !!!! William is totally right !!!
It is best in most cases to shoot with RGB setting in the camera. You will get better prints with this setting. Then convert a processed photo to sRGB for web use.
Hi Mike - your improving :)
Robert O'Tooles Quick Maks (QM) CD will give you the knwledge to remove distracting background elemts fairly easily, I use QM'S all the time.
As always, thanks to you all. i changed my color gamut to sRGB in both my Photoshop cs3 and in my camera. i did some testing and can see an immediate improvement.
Lance, i'll look into QM.
I'm going to try a photo or two today using the techniques you all gave me. i hope i do better.
I shoot RAW so in-camera color gamut settings are not important. I save my PSD files with Adobe RGB because it is a larger color space than sRGB, and I also print using Adobe RBG. I save JPGs in sRGB for more accurate display on the web and email.
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