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23-SEP-2005

Michael Shpuntov

OK. First of all I was thinking about composition. All wires and trees as everyone else stated should go. So I've clonned them out. Secondly, I liked Merlin's approach and decided to crop tighly, but keep the feet. On the other hand I felt that the womans head is to close to the upper edge of the picture and that somehow disbalance it. So I've increased canvas size by 100 pixels on top and clonned grass to make more space there. Next I clonned out all overexposed grass. After thar I tried to clone out all overexposed places on woman's face and shoulder, using different parts of the existing skeen and cloths patterns.

Next step was to darken grass in general so I used magnetic lasso, magic wand and poligonal lasso to salect stature, inverse selection and with loaded selection used levels. I slided gumma to 0.87 and this took care about the brigness of the grass. Next thing was the disbalance of the sharp, in-focus grass and the muted lines of the stature. I found that at least for me what is in focus attracts more attention, so grass overweighted the sculpture itself, since the grass was in better focus. I decided to mute the grass using blur tool and make it less distrative. Last thing was overall level correction to get everithing a bit lighter.

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FZ10 Users Group28-Sep-2005 15:06
Thank you Michael, the overexposure is cured now but now the grass IMHO is bit oversaturated oh oh I am
a difficult customer.
Ed Duverger
FZ10 Users Group27-Sep-2005 06:08
The increase in height was an excellent idea and very effective
Leevan