Please help me save this photo

[arash_hazeghi]

Great Egret doing some serious damage, poor lizard is screaming:eek:
I tried getting rid of the branches with spot heal brush as well as clone tool in CS3, not so much luck:confused: it is very obvious that something is missing/retouched. Can someone show me how to clone the branches out without leaving any trace?

This is 100% crop from original so there is room for resize as well.

[Alfred Forns]

Moving this image to ETL and will give it a try over there !!! Talk about timing !!!! :)



Lets see what you can do ... will refrain from posting one waiting !!!!

[Jeni Williams]

I think I'd try a pano crop something like this.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Well Jeni got that one!

[Alfred Forns]

Nailed it Jeni !!! If anything would have a little more room up front for the lizard to scream !!! ... its in a world of hurt !!!

Arash you can post the one to work on at normal size next time, shouldn't make much difference !!!

[Jeni Williams]

Is this enough space for the poor thing to squeal in, Al?

[Alfred Forns]

Does look better !!! ..... btw the little guy has slight resemblance to Godzilla !!!

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks a lot guys, it looks WAY better now!:D Sorry for big file I'll post smaller next time. Jeni did you use clone stamp or the heal brush to git rid of the branches? Thanks for helping:)

[Jeni Williams]

Arash, I first made a copy, then selected the large area of water to the left of your image with the rectangular tool, copied ctrl &(c) then ctrl &(v) so that it made another layer. Moved it over the the branches,
lowered the opacity ( in the work area) so I could see the lizard and bird, added a mask and using a fairly hard brush (brush tool) with about 60% opacity painted back the lizard and bird and blended in the edges. Then upped the opacity again so the branches were covered, deselected, merged and cropped. Rt side I used the brush tool.
I zoomed in and cleaned up the edges with a hard brush. ( brush tool) and opacity about 30%.;)

[Lance Peters]

Hi - love the action and the final repost rocks - good job :)

[Gus Cobos]

The final repost does it for me...it just needs another pass of noise reduction at 40 percent intensity...good show...

[arash_hazeghi]

haha that's right Al it does look like Godzilla! You don't want to see what happens in the next few frames it gets very graphic, poor creature!