You're welcome, Paul. I forgot to mention: 11. return layer opacity to 100%, but that's probably pretty obvious.
This technique is a great way to reduce lumps and bumps in people, as in clothing, love handles, etc. Substitute the Warp tool for the Distort tool. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 27, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> 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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> 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 >>> [email protected] >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
