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In this first one, I chose to create a double rainbow by positioning my cloning tool at the base of the existing rainbow, turning my overlay option on, reducing the second one's size slightly, and increasing the angle slightly as well. You may notice that I duplicated one tree, deleted another, took out the power line and pole, and lightened the entire sky to the left of my second rainbow.
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This one isn't as clean as it could be, but I thought it would be nice to fill in this picture with more palm trees. I created three different cloning sources, each one a different tree. Then I made each one slightly smaller than their originals and using the overlay again I four news trees to the image. Next I used the magic lasso tool to delete any sky that was cloned next to the trunks, which created a strange glow. I would have done more to the light (or dark) spots between the leaves, but...
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I thought it would be fun to remove the cat-strap from this picture. This one was all about turning off the aligned option. I wanted to preserve the ear piece's reflection as well as the chair's, so I had to be careful both not to clone over them or clone them elsewhere in the image.
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I thought this photo was a good example of removing items that blocked one's subject. In this one, I cloned my wife's hair to get rid of the fern, cloned some of her sweat jacket to cover a leaf, and cloned her hand to cover some twigs.
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Even though I played with some of the text styles, I prefered to use the clone tool for my text styles instead. In all three of these photos I created my text, opened a new layer, then used the Load Selection option under Select select the shape of my text. Next, with All Layers selected, I cloned either the leaves or petals of my photos and, still on my new layer, applied them to my selected area. I really like how this comes out. In the case of my final picture, I rotated the text and applied some warping settings so that it appeared to become smaller as it rose up the trunk.
5 comments:
WOW!! On all of your work I love how you used the clone tool especially the double rainbow! Your Autum photos are terrific! I like how you used the colors in the photos for your text colors!
NICE JOB JAY!!!!
Okay you'll have to be a part of the calendar too! Great job on the text matching colors and direction...Sometimes I think in cloning pictures the strange glow comes from reworking and the loss of pixel information too. I notice how you even got the strap's shadow out of this picture. Great work!
Great ideas Jay & job on all! Love the rainbow!! That gave me some ideas that I had not thought of before. The pic of your wife came out great! (Nice frame shot also). I enlarged it to look at it and it was difficult to tell clone from actual! Especially hair. I found hair has to be done just so in order to make it look natural (probably the same reason why hair is difficult to create in computer animation also).
You have so many amazing pics posted I do not even know where to start! I love the framing you did in the mushroom picture and the rainbow picture came out awesome!! thanks for your creativity!
Nice work, love the rainbow image, and your wife, really great! I have been unable to get on line lately,..sorry for my absence, nice to see your work. Appreciate your feedback, and inspiration. Diana
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