Edits

[thing]

You all well know in the amazing world of digital photography one of the best things about it is you can edit your image. Whether it be deletions or colour enhancement to basic sharpness or grain these days anything goes.

So lets see some of your latest editing efforts. Maybe a brief description of the program and tools used to achieve your desired result would be good for all members to see and perhaps learn from.

I'll start the ball rolling with this one, it's one I posted here a few days ago. Simple shot ...car on road (although it is indeed an awesome car!), but the other cars parked behind distracted from the image, same with the letter box and half a person on the RHS.

A quick edit in PS mainly using clone tool and healing brush tool helped this image alot.

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This is not about showcasing an edit to pat yourself on the back. It's more about encouraging everyone here to help one another learn and pick up tips from eachother. If you think my edit is crap .....say so in this thread and let me know how you would have approached it.

So post em up here and lets talk about what weve done and how we did it. I'm all ears!! The more I learn and know the better my results will be in the end. What you think is a tip not worth mentioning may mean the world to someone else.

[SSSchwing]

how did you get the chrome more chrome? is it just saturation?

[thing]

Thanks for your reply SSSchwing,

Chrome untouched. It may be an optical thing after the crop. Because both images are 800 pixels on the longest edge the chrome may appear more in your face than before the crop?

[SSSchwing]

hmmm, possibly... nice work either way. I wouldn't have even know if you hadn't posted the original.

I will attempt some edits and post my results and how I went about them. I need the practice

[Jackaroo]

Great idea thing, will definately help me looking at what other people do

Jackaroo

[Briancd]

Thing, I can understand the use of the clone tool and I noticed that the shadows where the letterbox and person were is consistent. I have not thought to use the healing tool in this type of edit. Is it used to maintain the tonal quality of the cloned area. Please elaborate?

[Ollé]

hrrrm... maybe this is a throwback to my film days, but I'm not a fan of photoshopping images, I mean sure it is useful but one can find themselves reling on the 'cloning' technique a little too much.

This might sound like I am completley against using photoshop for editing, but I have cloned some stuff out of a few images - not too many but a few.

I dunno, I just feel that with the advent of photoshop more and more people are calling themselves photographers, when in fact, they are nothing more than graphic designers - please don't consider this an attack or defamation of anyone who edits, alters, clones, etc. their images hardly any of my photos are touched by more than levelling and contrasting. All the things I used to do in my darkroom.

End Rant.

Sorry guys if this is a bit longwinded.