Err... can I quote "Content-Aware Fill with Adobe Photoshop CS5"?
Our friend here is hoping for something free. So how ?
Seems like this CS5 is very amazing, must save up to get one.
Err... can I quote "Content-Aware Fill with Adobe Photoshop CS5"?
OT abit...replacing the sky... suddenly I recall the topic of cheating:embrass:
Nice big smile to you ... but who amongst us have not cheated before :angel:
To keep my conscience clear, I try as much not to cheat;p
At least not 1/3 where the sky is:bsmilie:
Nice big smile to you ... but who amongst us have not cheated before :angel:
i agree with you, if not why are they appearing in this Digital Darkroom. haha.
Unless they think when they use PS/CS5/gimp etc for sharpening, increase contrast, brigtening etc are not cheating.
Photo editing is part and parcel in digital world, it is a skill to let individual like us to enhance the overall picture, isn't it?
Hence we have dslr with raw format, software like PS, gimp etc.
pp to enhance is totally fine..layering the same scene is also fine...I just nv prefer to "replace" the whole sky...
actually, to each of his own. For me, i am very new in digital imaging. Recently just learn abit of sharpening, contrast, now learning layers which is why i use sky as an example. Bro, you are a great help here too.
No prob. It's really personal preference for that. Not to challenge..haha..actually if you hope to edit/enhance more with better results I really think Photoshop helps alot. Just that it's not very intuitive/user-friendly if you first started with it. Search the web on how to do it, try it out and you will definitely be more familiar with it.
Anyway, you downloaded Gimp, correct? hope you play with it more and be more efficient in it.
At some point, one stops being a photographer and starts being a photoshopper. To me, if one's intent is to tweak a photograph as what it is, either to make more like how it was (cameras do not always WB correct, etc) or sharpen, tweak the contrast, etc... as long as the photo remains pretty much what it was when it was taken, it is still a photograph, albeit highly tweaked.
If instead I take a blank slate (your pick of white or transparent BG), and put in the appropriate sky, the appropriate buildings, the appropriate people, the appropriate floor - then change the entire floor pattern and colour, and decide that the moon should be bigger, brighter, so I put one into the pic also, and while I'm it, I managed to salvage an old photo of a T101 Terminator so that looks good peeking from a, oh, lemme put a manhole there in the floor, ...
...is that still a photograph?
:dunno:
At some point, one stops being a photographer and starts being a photoshopper. To me, if one's intent is to tweak a photograph as what it is, either to make more like how it was (cameras do not always WB correct, etc) or sharpen, tweak the contrast, etc... as long as the photo remains pretty much what it was when it was taken, it is still a photograph, albeit highly tweaked.
If instead I take a blank slate (your pick of white or transparent BG), and put in the appropriate sky, the appropriate buildings, the appropriate people, the appropriate floor - then change the entire floor pattern and colour, and decide that the moon should be bigger, brighter, so I put one into the pic also, and while I'm it, I managed to salvage an old photo of a T101 Terminator so that looks good peeking from a, oh, lemme put a manhole there in the floor, ...
...is that still a photograph?
:dunno:
TS, please note that if you "replace" the sky, you need to make sure the new sky and the foreground can work together in terms of lighting. That means, it has to make sense. Think about it, buildings with dull light, and suddenly on top of that you see a nice bright blue sky... :think:
Have fun. Gimp is very very advanced already, considering that it is freeware.
And if you are looking for something similar to content aware delete/fill in CS5, there is a free plugin available for GIMP that do almost the same thing. In fact, I think the functionality from CS5 sort of grew from this plugin. It is called "resynthesizer plug-in". Google it to find the link to download it.