Secret retouching technique! :-)
1. marquee from the top of the image down to just above the car's hood
and trunk (ie including as much corn as possible, but excluding as
much car as possible).
2. switch to lasso: hold Option and lasso around the roof of the car.
This will exclude the roof from the selection.
3. Cmd-J to clone selection (corn and background) to new layer; name it "warp"
4. Cmd-T to show grab handles.
5. right-click for menu: choose Distort.
6. tug upward on upper-right handle until corn is level (I turned on
View Grid to help).
There's now a horizontal mismatch between the corn stalks on both layers ...
7. add a layer mask to "warp".
8. select a large soft Brush, 100% opacity and flow; choose Black colour.
9. reduce the opacity of the original car layer so the warp layer's
edge stands out
10. making sure mask is selected, paint along the bottom edge of the warp
layer. The brush center should just follow the line. This will
create a smooth
gradient that will blend the two layers right at the interface point.
Ta-da! Merge layers and or save-to-web, etc.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Seems to me that the car has a very slight slope of its own. That left
>> downward slant kinda balances out the left upward slant of the corn
>> stalks ... and so it looks just fine to me, as-is.
>>
>> BTW, you can stretch the corn row level using the free transform tool
>> in a minute or two. Here's my try ...
>>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2254722/PDML/17510003-lg-str8.jpg
>
> Nice, but how did you avoid stretching the car as well? I've used free
> transform quite a bit, but it distorts the entire image area.
>
> Paul
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>> I'm a bit torn here. Among my shots from the Mopar Nationals are some
>>> profiles sot on a road next to a cornfield. I'm locked into just a few
>>> shooting sites at this event due to the size of the crowd and limited
>>> access to other venues, so this cornfield and the parking lot next to it is
>>> my best choice. Unfortunately, the road and cornfield don't share the
>>> horizontal. I either render profiles with the road going downhill and the
>>> cornfield level or the rod level and the cornifield descending (the way it
>>> actually is). Here's a shot rendered in that manner:
>>>
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17510003&size=lg
>>>
>>> Do you find the horizontal mismatch distracting? Doesn't mayer much for the
>>> magazine because it will probably be stripped our if used large, but when
>>> making prints for car owners, it's a consideration.
>>>
>>>
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