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16-OCT-2010 Cindy Flood

Mitchell House Cindy's edit

Wisconsin

Straightened with the ruler tool. Cropped to desired composition. Select > color range > choose a point of blue sky. Clicked on INVERSE to select non-blue sky. Copied layer (now blue background is deleted). Opened another photo with a dramatic sky and made a selection of a size similar to my Mitchell House photo. Copied to clipboard (CMD C or CTRL C). Back to Mitchell House photo and clicked to make a new blank layer. Pasted in sky layer. Used Edit > Transform to size the sky to match the Mitchell House photo. Moved the blank layer down below the house- without-sky layer. Clicked on sky-only layer. Add a layer mask. With black in my foreground and opacity of my brush at 20%, I painted in tree branches that had not made it to this layer. I then flattened down to one layer, duplicated it and did a decrease in saturation, some light sharpening and a little dodging on the house to bring up the detail.


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Cindi Smith14-Feb-2011 14:49
Nice!!! I like the closer look here. Well done!
Cindy Flood07-Feb-2011 01:33
Thank you Frank, Hal, Terry, and Lennart.

Terry, the original is right out of the raw developer with no capture sharpening. That lens is sharp, so it is just a matter of a light sharpening. I use a high pass sharpen and sometimes a layer mask to put the sharpness where I want it.
Lennart Waara06-Feb-2011 18:38
Great result of your meticulous work!
Terry_O06-Feb-2011 02:52
Geeze, you did a great job, Cindy! How did you get the focus corrected so well -
I make the mistake of copying the image at 'large' size rather than 'original' and
found myself frustrated. Now I know....Thanks for your workflow!
hal 05-Feb-2011 20:21
Very fascinating, Cindy and a very fine result.
Many thanks for the workflow.
l have one to put up too.
Frank Kavanagh Photography05-Feb-2011 18:30
Oh how I would love to be able to do all of the above, a great job Cindy.