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Specific Removing the bird food around the bird?


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nantrax

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I have a special request.

I have a pic of a tufted titmouse that I like a lot. Except all the bird food annoys me. Could it be possible to remove the food and make it seem like it's only snow?

By the way, do this forum accept donations? You have helped me before and it will surely be happening again. I want to help out. I know the internet, it ain't free.
 

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nantrax said:
By the way, do this forum accept donations? You have helped me before and it will surely be happening again. I want to help out. I know the internet, it ain't free.
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Thanks for the offer but there is no need. The forum receives help through advertising.
 
@polarwoc This is a difficult edit so I can understand. You have a lot of repetitive stamp work that does not look natural and where the bird contacts the snow is off in both of your attempts. If I were considering this edit, I would be looking at some compositing work in replacing the snow.

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@IamSam Thanks for the inputs.
Yes, it was challenging just to select the bird cleanly. So, cutting the bird and pasting it on another BG was not an option. I tried looking around for similar snow texture, not much luck there. Wanted to try the Frequency Separation technique, but I figured I would lose the snowflake texture that way too.

I will make another attempt at it using the other picture later on.

I am going to pester anyone who does this image to explain their technique.
 
@Argos, David, no need to resize pictures anymore...XenForo (new forum) can handle large pictures...
 
Thank you everyone for the work. I know this was a difficult photoshop request.

Argos and Polarwoc, thanks again.

Regards,
 
I made another attempt. Experts viewing this could please offer comments for improvements. OP can request further 1167-After2-IMG_0525.jpgchanges.
 
Much better! Apart from the paws, the shadow its a little hard on the edges and beside of the obiously improvement still have some patrons that are easy to fix.
(some of them)
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One last thing would be the abrupt change of temperature color on the floor white/blue/white.

Keep the good work!
 
Eggy said:
@polarwoc,
Maybe add a hint of the paws...?
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Thanks for the suggestion. The original pic had a slight portion of two digits of the foot at a bad right angle to the direction of the bird and they were camouflaged with the bird seed. I might have to find pictures of this bird to get the fingers/feet.
 
Argos said:
Much better! Apart from the paws, the shadow its a little hard on the edges and beside of the obiously improvement still have some patrons that are easy to fix.
(some of them)
One last thing would be the abrupt change of temperature color on the floor white/blue/white.
Keep the good work!
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Thanks for pointing out the improvements @Argos . I see there is much to be done on the pic.
 
I'm sure you'll find a suitable pair of paws to use on this one. Make sure the resolution fits and actually you need just a hint of the paws, just making the bird standing on it and not on his belly.
 
You also missed an area that I previously pointed out.........
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There is a clear unnatural delineation that occurs from repeated clone stamping from the same source.

I also just noticed the strong or harsh edged shadow of the bird that does not look natural. It needs softer more blurred edges, there should only be a slight suggestion of a shadow. I'm of course also talking about the tails shadow as well.
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