I like the wider version here. The tight crop brings too much emphasis on the o-o-f branches above the animal. Here I would crop from the bottom just a bit and from the left to better balance the COMP.
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I also like this presentation better for the reason stated above. As far as removing the grass in front of the face my suggestion would be to enlarge the image and use a small clone brush with a soft edge and frequently select new/appropriate sampling points as close to the area your replacing as possible. I enlarge the image to 500% and used a 2px soft edge brush. I did try Content Aware, patch tool, and quick masking but, I thought the approach I described yielded the best results. I am posting my quick and dirty attempt to provide a visual so you can determine if you think this is an improvement or not and worth your time. I also try to implement the cropping suggestions mentioned by other. I took a little off the bottom and some off the left of the tiger to emphasize the direction the tiger is looking.
I forgot to add that I wold do this editing on a duplicate layer so if your not satisfied with your results that you can delete and still have your original image intact.
Last edited by Phil Ertel; 08-13-2010 at 07:55 AM.
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As I was recently told you need to work big, in this instance at 600%. Make the clone stamp very small and work methodically and carefully to move pixels from adjacent areas until you can see no grass, in this instance I also took oiu some of the grass where it joined the body, so that the sudden dissapearance became less noticable. I also took what I hope is Arts suggestion on the crop. This will work much better on your original file.For some unknown reason the conversion process has added a red cast sorry about that.
It seems that I posted at the same time as Phil
Last edited by Ken Watkins; 08-13-2010 at 08:08 AM.
Oh... wow... amazing work you both Ken And Phil... thanks a ton... much appreciated.... I got to learn something new... never ever even in my dreams i would have tried that type of cloning... But now after seeing the results will try it and hope so after trying 2-3 times i'll get results nearer to you...
@ken Ya it is been a problem for a while that..... while uploading an image it get a cast over it... how does that happen don't know!!!
Thanks again even i love the new Crop...
Regards...
Sudhanshu....
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