Show us your manipulated images - before and after

BobOh wrote in post #14399319
And my last 2 of an image which badly needed saving due to the official photographer's head, arm and gear behind the bride's (our daughter-in-law) father's head.

Did the official photog have to clone you out of her images?

Scatterbrained wrote in post #14399534
Did the official photog have to clone you out of her images?

That has come up in conversation. Not a whole lot I could do about getting out of the way. I was sitting in the "audience". In any event, he probably wouldn't have gone to any great effort. Bride and groom were not very satisfied with him.

BobOh wrote in post #14399612
That has come up in conversation. Not a whole lot I could do about getting out of the way. I was sitting in the "audience". In any event, he probably wouldn't have gone to any great effort. Bride and groom were not very satisfied with him.

Well, then, at least they got some good back ups.

Heres a before and after of mine. Forgive the slight oversharpening but it has been downsized for showing here and its showing, in the full size print and my own website it looks better.

Cool

Here is a shot I took at a little league basketball game. In the second shot, Lebron James decided to sneak in a dunk.

^^haha nice one!

Pre:

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IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/sethdubois/7168​826992/

this is some amazing work guys, thank you for sharing. Now to only pixel-peep and reverse engineer

love the softening of the skin SethDuBois

Sevillian wrote in post #14326378

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Shot on a very overcast type of day - RAW

That first one is amazing. I would have left it alone or blown the water out to have the birds flying across a blank canvas.

BayAreaHydro wrote in post #14403759
Here is a shot I took at a little league basketball game. In the second shot, Lebron James decided to sneak in a dunk.

I love the way the kids are already looking up at Lebron

I've posted this one in another thread already, but why not It was my first major manipulation.

All work done in CS5 during a few lunch breaks.
- aligned the image (massive distortion from 10mm at the angle I was shooting from)
- removed the handrail, with a combination of cloning, healing, and content aware (lots of work).
- rebuilt from the right shoulder down of my youngest son due to being hidden behind the post.
- removed the seams in the glass.
- tweaked the colours to look more natural (this was probably mostly done in Lightroom before all the chopping.)

Here's another from that same trip. Early morning at the Alamo and I didn't notice the post and chain shadows until I got home. Lots of cloning, copying and pasting section of door and stone, healing, etc.

Logicus wrote in post #14412377

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...and added just a bit of motion blur so it didn't look so static. Selected and added a bit of ripple distortion in the tree line to simulate the exhaust gases. Not perfect, but fun to do.

Original:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …gicusaeturnus/5​898950404/

Looks like fun, I was trying something similiar with some of my kids toy Cars. But why did you add the motion blur to the jet and not to the background? The original is nice and sharp, and motion blur to the background would further help hide where the stand was removed. Very nicely done

SethDuBois wrote in post #14408415
Carly portrait by SethDuBois, on Flickr

Really nice job on the skin and not making it look like a plastic.