Hi Mike,
I like the capture, you have a nice clean background, but the bird is too centered in frame. I modified your composition by cropping from the right and 1/4 from the top and added canvas to the left to off center the bird. I increased contrast and saturation and sharpened the eye...:cool:
mike, you are doing fantastic!!! i like where gus moved it in the frame, but you really nailed everything else in this one!! big congrats and keep up the great work!!!!!!
First added 100 px to left side only, using arrow direction set up. Then did the Content Aware Scale by simply dragging left center handle to cover added canvas. Some situations require protecting the bird as explained in Keith's great tutorial
"uptospeed" by Ben Willmore as mentioned by Fab Forms that focuses on CS4 new features is the best $17.00 I ever spent on a DIY book . . . .
Thanks to both Keith & Fabs.
Regards
Uncle Gus
Last edited by Gus Hallgren; 11-23-2008 at 09:05 AM.
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Mike your bird photos are really coming along! Your center positioning is the only detraction in this one - the feathers are all well defined and you got a great natural BG that isn't distracting. Good job!
a great big thanks to all, especially uncle Gus. i've been thinking about CS4 but haven't had the money. instead i invested in microsoft's answer to my photo cataloging nightmare.
my thanks again to uncle Gus for the lesson in CS4 and to uncle Gus Cobos too.
mike
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