Originally posted by ziploc
Hi Roy,
Guess I did a bad job on it... mine looked ok at home but I can see patches on the monitor in the office. Can tell me how you did the adjustment? Mask out the statue, then adjust the level is it? I tried that but it seemed to leave some dark edges at the side of the statue. Thanks.
Hi Ziploc,
There is nothing much you can do with the original picture. There is just not enough information on the statue captured in that picture. That is why the colours became patchy when you tried to increase the brightness by masking out the statue. I tried that and it did not work also.
What I did was a little more complicated. The statue in the picture I posted was acually taken from your other picture "Body Parts". I found that the angle of the statue is similar in both the shots, so I cut pieces of the statue from "Body Parts" (pun intended

), and assembled them on the final picture. I did some colour/brightness adjustment, and had to actually blur the joining areas to make the pieces blend and give a more natural look.
The picture I posted is a result of big time cheating

. The intention was to give an idea of my original suggestion on the exposure. It would be great if you can try the shot again to achieve similar results.
- Roy