{"id":3092,"date":"2010-11-04T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:44:15","slug":"photoshop-lesson-continued-a-jim-howell-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/11\/04\/photoshop-lesson-continued-a-jim-howell-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Lesson Continued: A Jim Howell Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Photoshop Lesson Continued: A Jim Howell Question<\/h2>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s post Jim Howell asked the following question in the Comments section: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arthur, this is a great composite and thanks for this tutorial, APBII, Digital Basics and thank you Robert for APTATS. I\u2019ve looked and looked at the photos \u2013 where was the blur necessary?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good question Jim.  And thanks for your kind words.  I love this one too, especially as it looks as if the stretching bird is staring at the other two.  I will answer your question in this post with my comments on two close-up images.  <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>This image is a tight crop of the branch after I lined up the two images.  As you can see, everything to the right of the red line is sharp, everything to the left is blurred.  That is especially noticeable in the rotted section. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Everything to the left of the red line is the introduced layer.   First I wanted to restore the sharpness in the wood above the rotted part so I created a layer mask on the introduced layer and erased the soft stuff that covered the sharper clean wood below.  The problem was that there was still an obvious sharp soft demarcation in the rotted wood&#8230;.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Next I flattened the two layers and then painted a Quick Mask of the sharper rotted wood on the right.  Then I applied about a 1 pixel Gaussian blur until the texture of the rotted portion matched fairly well. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Though my repair might stand up to pixel by pixel scrutiny it looked a whole lot better than it did before the additional work \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again Jim for the great question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop Lesson Continued: A Jim Howell Question <\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s post Jim Howell asked the following question in the Comments section: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arthur, this is a great composite and thanks for this tutorial, APBII, Digital Basics and thank you Robert for APTATS. I\u2019ve looked and looked at the photos \u2013 where was the blur necessary?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-photoshop-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}