How'd I do ?

[BCdives]

Color correction and elimination of a power line, here is the before and after.

http://bc.kf4oal.com/Flag%20A.jpg
http://bc.kf4oal.com/Flag%20B.jpg

[john_houghton]

The removal of the power line is ok, but the colour correction has lost the detail in the highlights. If you have Photoshop, it's best to use levels and curves for adjusting brightness and contrast to avoid this. BTW, your image file sizes were far too big at 284K. They included the EXIF data, which is neither needed nor used by the web browser. By using Save for Web, the file sizes come down to below 50K, without noticeable loss of quality, and will load 5 times quicker.

John

[maderito]

A good job of removing the electrical line - especially in the flag. I agree completely with John's comments.

You can see a few streaks and blobs in areas of cloning (or healing) in the sky & clouds. To correct these problems, you could clone some more, use the healing brush, or use a procedure like this:

1. Make a selection of the edited area (an approximate generous rectangle encompassing the area of the former telephone line).
2. Feather the selection (4 px)
3. Copy the selection to a new layer
3. On the new layer, smooth out the irregularities with median filter (3) followed by gaussian blur (0.3)
4. Add monochromatic noise (3) and the gaussian smooth (0.3) to recreate the sky texture

Your sky in the new layer should now look like the original sky.

5. Add a black layer mask to the new layer and then use a soft white brush @ 50% opacity to "paint in" the new layer where there are streaks and blobs in the edited image.
6. Merge the new layer with the edited image.

(I'm not sure I've correctly recalled all the parameters on the filters.)

The improvements are small, but noticeable on close examination. See below (100% crops). Make a copy and examine at 200% enlargement. Some of the "improvements" may be lost because of JPEG compression and artifacts.

Like everything in Photoshop, there are many ways to do this.
http://display.lifepics.com/imgdisp.asp?filespec=%60foxhx2cuxmwdogx%5D9%3C%3D8 %3B9dOjeOrmlfHlkyJtjmi8mxi%0E17%3D74%3D%0C82529%3E

[BCdives]

Hey Woody and John, thanks for the come back and the valuable information. Im just now really starting to cut my teeth in PS, a bit overwheliming at times but an amazing program none the less.

Thanks again for the expert advice.

BC