Thanks! I'm going to give it a try. This technique could prove to be frequently useful.
Paul On Aug 27, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
