Great Tit


Posted by Colin Inman on Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:57 am

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I cloned a branch out from the upper left corner in photoshop (elements). I am not 100% happy with the result - the edges of the area where I cloned are obvious to me. How do you guys go about doing this to get better results ?
Also it is a bit of an underneath looking up shot.

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by Bill Whala on Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:00 pm
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This looks a little soft and grainy like it was a severe crop. The pose and colors are very nice.

You can use the Smudge Tool to blend in the area where you cloned.
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by TSparger on Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:32 pm
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Yeah, this one is very grainy and soft with little detail in the feathers and eye of the bird.
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by Colin Inman on Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:34 pm
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This is a very minor crop, about 95% of the original image remains.
I am not always convinced about the quality coming out of the slide scanner, a minolta dimage dual scan III set at 2800 dpi.
Also resizing down to 650 pixels for posting and saving as jpeg to post loses some quality, but this doesn't affect other peoples posts.
I think I need a good book on photoshop.
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by Carol Clarke on Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:44 pm
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I can't really comment much on the techs Colin as I'm looking at this on a Laptop and that loses the fine detail anyway to a certain degree. At least this is one more Great Tit shot than I've got! I don't mind the angle but it does look a little soft and grainy - the Noise Ninja is wonderful for getting rid of grain. As for PS, I just keep trying different things until I find out how they work, and then practice some more! :? :)
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by Alan Murphy on Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:10 pm
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Colin, as you said the cloning is obvious but with patience you can overcome that. The photo is contrasty and grainy. you may want to have your image scanned at a lab, then compare to your scanner to see if that is where you should start.
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by Juli Wilcox on Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:02 pm
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Colin, the image has a decidedly magenta-blue tone which is very pretty and artistic, as in a graphic illustration, to me but which many people would find unnatural. When you want to clone out an element, increase the size of your image to 400% or 500%, use a smallish brush, and clone from pixels immediately adjacent to the object to be removed. Hope this helps.
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by Wayne Ellis on Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:07 pm
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Keep practicing :D Use PS enough and your skill levels will increase, cheers m8t
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by Jerry Merrell on Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:39 pm
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Colin, you are allowed 120 kb and only used 48 kb in this image. If you use the SAVE FOR WEB feature in PS to first size the image and then to maximize quality I think you may be happier with your final image.
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by Laura Stiefel on Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:50 am
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Hi Colin,

On top of what the others have said it might help to know what film you were shooting in the original post. When originally shooting slide film I never had good luck scanning slides at home. Slide scanning seems to be an art of it's very own.

That being said, this is a really cute bird and I like the diagonal perch here. Waiting for a the bird to turn it's head toward you would have been nice also.


I think Alan's suggestion of having your lab rescan this is a good one. I don't think the scan is doing the slide justice here. :)
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by Colin Inman on Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:37 am
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The film is Kodak elitechrome, looking at the slide I am sure it is iso 100 extracolour.

I use two bodies, one loaded with Kodak elitechrome 100 extracolour, and the other loaded with Kodak elitechrome 400 for when there isn't enough light to use iso 100. I am not very good at keeping a note of what I use (need an exif file for slide) :)
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by Harvey Edelman on Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:42 pm
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Nice diagonal pose and god balance. A bit oversaturated possibly.
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