I would like to work on this image a bit more. It is the unedited jpeg. I would like to remove the jessies and create the missing parts of the legs. I have no idea how to go about it, any suggestion???? If I had one leg to work from I could do it.
Thanks for any help/ideas!
Here is my version, was a rather picky job, and with a bit more time I think I could make it better.
What I did: As legs were at different angles I cropped a piece out just above the legs down to top of feet. Then enlarged crop and cloned legs from top for a start, then with backgound eraser I cut out the legs. Then then with brush tool, bit of blur bit of exposure I got them looking decent ??? Then I opened your original and removed legs by cloning background color over them, then with brush too, various opacity I blended colours in. Then I moved crop into place, feet and top of legs blended in, if it isn't perfect it would be very easy to blend in. I worked mostly with brush tool and very low opacities down as low as 6% at times varieing hardness where colours were different back and forth. Difficult to fully explain. Had enlarged to 500% for finishing touches.
Didn't work with rest of photo, spots in BG I think are snow? It is a mature Harris's Hawk, and I think it's a male who are smaller than the females. You might want to selectively sharpen eye a tad, and fine tune him.
See what you think?
BTW: Reposts working on a JPG will always be slightly degraded, and need rehancing which I did not do.
Uncle Gus
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Thanks Gus!!! Was just thinking they have a toe that goes backward too so you could grab one and put it on the back. Do you think their legs are really that skinny?
Hi Jackie - nice looking bird - Gus has done a fine job on the PS work - well done Gus!! As he said with a higher quality jpg file would look even better.
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I have a ton of Harris's hawk photos, and think the ones I modified are close. Here's a comparison and I added a few feathers to offset the angle that might make them look skinny. Keep in mind that we are scrutinizing the changed legs, whereas the attention would be around the head and eyes ;)
Just the info I wanted Gus, hard to tell from my bird books exactly what they looked like. If I work on it I want them to look as real as possible.
Email has been sent to you regular email already:)re:book
I enhanced it a bit, eye, saturate yellow in legs and did a slight more overall to last repost with few feathers added to top of leg. Also removed sample layer :D
You can now take over
Uncle Gus
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