Lake view

[tommykjensen]

Ok, I just discovered a new tool today :idea:

Magic eraser.

Following shot was exposed for the sky so the lake and the trees was underexposed.

I have attempted to recover that by duplicating the layer. Adjusted layers on the foreground layer. Then on the background layer I used a combination of the eraser tool and magic eraser to complete the photo.

What do You think?

http://www.klein-jensen.dk/external/lake_edited.jpg

[DAMphyne]

Looks a little faded to me, maybe you went too far. I'd like to see the original. I like the shot though.

[tommykjensen]

I forgot to mention that I boosted saturation some.

This is the original.

http://www.klein-jensen.dk/external/lake_original.jpg

[Scottes]

Looks pretty good to me. It does need some contrast though, which would help a lot. And you missed a spot on the tip of a tree just to the left of the reddish tree.

[damnengine]

I think it lacks contrast too, you could have saved yourself some work by just using shadow/highlights and level it out a bit, I got this result with it (using your original pic, hope you don't mind)

http://www.damnengine.net/scrap/lake.JPG

[tommykjensen]

Thanks, that looks much better. In any case it was fun learning something new.

[cgratti]

run the blur tool across the top of the treeline to get rid of the "cut and pasted look in the trees" use a small brush and just blur the edges of the treetops a bit.

[damnengine]

run the blur tool across the top of the treeline to get rid of the "cut and pasted look in the trees" use a small brush and just blur the edges of the treetops a bit.

I think that look is caused by the resizing (it also looks that way in the posted "original"), so it's probably just a sharp pic.