An exercise in some serious editing update on P2

JustJazzie · Oct 30, 2014

LCLimages said:
JustJazzie said:

Could you line her arm back up and find some sort of ripple overlay or something like she threw a stone in? There has to be sonehing like the available!

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The last one I just posted her arm is lined back up. I've been creating displacement maps and using them in photoshops Distort filter but haven't quite found one that's right yet. I'm going to create another one now that looks more like circles instead of lines, like you mentioned a stone ripple. Thanks!!

My Photoshopese is pretty limited. But that sounds like a good idea. ;-)

LCLimages · Oct 30, 2014

Ok here we go. Mostly left the original right side of the frame alone. Found a ripple overlay - thanks Jazzie! - so here's one with the reflection and one without. Oh, and I made her feet a bit bigger.

sm4him · Oct 30, 2014

Yep, love the second one, without the reflection. I'd never guess any of that was photoshopped in.

Now, get rid of that stalk of grass poking out of her head, just to the left of her ear, and that's a winner in my book.

ronlane · Oct 30, 2014

Laura, I like that last one best. What about cloning in some grass in front of her toes to make it look like they are hidden in the grass?

LCLimages · Oct 30, 2014

Fixed the strand of grass poking out of her head. And for sh*ts & giggles ran a matte BW action on it & liked it more than I thought I would.

CherylL · Oct 30, 2014

I like the original grass back and no reflection.

bunadski · Oct 30, 2014

Very nicely done! I very much like your color treatment in your first edit. Nitpicks: apart from the sharp reflection (which you already fixed in your second edit), I do notice the repeating patterns of the foreground grass.

Granddad · Nov 2, 2014

I like the last colour version, nicely photoshopped. My only beef is that the water line is too straight to be natural... but I acknowledge that getting a natural waterline to fit wouldn't be easy. Good work. One day all the experience you gained dinking around on this will pay off.