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Photoshop fun


Ian Holmes

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I am not the greatest photoshopper in the world. Unlike some members of this forum who add snow and smoke and even themselves to their pictures.

My abilities stretch to cut and past and crop and tweaking colour a bit.

But that doesn't stop me wanting to have a go and do something really neat on the backscene.

The only part of the backscene that really needs some detail is the section with the road between the two buildings. So for a while now I've been looking around for suitable scenes, which is not as easy as you'd think. Most roads into industrial parks are four lanes. I've only got enough space for two lanes. There is one road close to work that I two lanes. So I used that for a starter.

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So. I just sat down measured up, cut and paste, flipped things and copied things.

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and I ended up with something not unreasonable. All good practice. Proving that photoshopping is not all that difficult.

The section is only about 8" x 4" so any dodgy pieces of cutting copying are not that noticeable.

It will work for the moment though but I think in the long run I'll wait until the spring and the grass is greener before I produced the finished item.

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I like the way you've shrunk the road, but I think the mirroring on the right is a bit obvious and could do with hiding.

 

One thing I find very helpful is the clone brush - you can use it to paint into the picture from a different area (or a different picture) and it can be great for breaking up clones and making them look unique for minimal effort.

 

On this picture it'd be an easy way to remove the duplication in the bush on the left. The mirroring on the right is bigger and would take more work - do you have any other images from the area to give you a bit more to work with?

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Great idea!

 

I think the 'dip' in the HV wires on the right is the only thing that draws the eye for me...

 

Nice work Ian...

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The mirroring on the right and all the associated "anomalies" bothers me too when seen like this but that area butts up so close to the edge of one of the buildings that its barely noticeable when I put it in place on the layout

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