Help please!!!

[smudge]

Hi guy's i need some help. does this shot look better with or without the ear? strange question I know, but when I looked at the original I kept being drawn by the highlighted ear, problem is when I cloned it out it still looked odd. Before anyone else mentions it the cloning isn't the finished product just a quick go to see if it's worth spending some time on There may be a slight difference in tone also.

thanks in advance.

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL581/2631269/5244917/95735806.jpg

http://pic15.picturetrail.com/VOL581/2631269/5244917/95735819.jpg

[pdrow]

Maybe you can select the ear and darken it. I think the guy singing will have a hard time carrying the tune without the ear. I think this leaves you open to tuns of puns.

[smudge]

I didn't even think of that...you can tell I'm new at this p.s thingy.
I'll give that a go. I thought I could clone out the ear and it would look like it was in the shadow, but I can see now that just doesn't work.

...any one think the first one is ok with the ear as is?

[MTalley]

I'd say see if you can tone it down some. Wish I'd looked at the picture before reading your comments. Once I read your take on the matter, the ear draws my attention most readily.

[chucksberg]

WHAT!

[Poster Of U]

What I did If you don't mind, is I cloned the black background and put it on his ear but I changed the Opacity to 10%. Of course you can do a better job than I did.

[smudge]

Now that sir, is the best result I've seen yet, of the many methods I've tried. Thank you very much, I shall use that one I think. Was starting to think I would lose this shot, which would have been a shame, I like it.

[Titus213]

Downright eerie!

[DocFrankenstein]

You dont need the ear, it looks fine... Just don't show the other version to people :D

[OceanRider]

without for sure

[RbrtPtikLeoSeny]

Yea, I like it with the ear dulled down a bit. Like Poster posted. Perfect like that. The guy in the background is weird though........ Doesn't seem like he belongs there.

[charlesu]

Maybe you can select the ear and darken it. I think the guy singing will have a hard time carrying the tune without the ear. I think this leaves you open to tuns of puns.

I agree.

[Lynn Lane]

I'm more distracted by the guy to the right with his mouth open.

[cgratti]

This is what I would have done with it. It would have been nicer to have the full res image to get a more percise detail to work with, but you get the idea.