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Hello!

In a few days it is my girlfriend's birthday and I am in the opposite side of the globe. I wanted to send her a printed photo.
And then I would like this photo to be framed to put on a wall of our flat.

Here is the picture (this is raw: no editing):




I would like the
V + M
<3
to be more clean and visible without alterate too much the sunset's colors, and I have no idea how to do it.


Could you help me please?
Thanks in advance. :)
And sorry for my poor English.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/537392P1000910.jpg
 
I tried to clean the sand with the Duplication stamp (I don't know if it's the actual word in English Photoshop) but the result is not really natural. :confused:
 
Oh yes I see! The result is much better! Thank you.
But what do you mean by "a mask" on the edges? For the edges I use the History Brush and it gives a good blending.
 
you can go to "layer - create layer-mask" and there paint with a brush
white reveals, black conceals
history brush is also ok
 
I got it! Your method is so easy when you know how to!

Merci beaucoup collègue. :)
Imma using your picture because I guess I can't do better, si tu me le permets.
 
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I know you don't want to alter the colours too much, but in my opinion it looks way better with a different toning, I tried to edit it a bit, what do you think about this? (:

(resized smaller version)
sunset.png
 
:eek: This is marvellous! Thank you!
I never succeed to find the good tones so I don't try it anymore but if I could do something like that I would!

How do you manage to have these tones? You use the Image/Adjust/Levels or Curves or Exposure? Or you try them all and look what looks the better?
 
Oh actually I haven't done very much at all, I did the "HDR toning" option, and that actually does most of the job for you! :P But to add a little bit more light (hardly visible I think) around the heart and the letters I made a gradient that had a white circle which fades out to a darker gray'ish colour. I then set that gradient layer to overlay, and it should look a bit more bright at that spot :)! Sorry if it's dificult to understand, I'm terrible at explaining these things xD Here's some pictures :P

HDR_toning.png
gradient.png
 
A ok. But I have CS4 and there is no HDR Toning. :( I watched some demonstrations and tutorials and it seems to be a really handy tool!
Anyway, may I ask you a better resolution of the work you did so I can print it if it is tolerated on this forum?
Thank you a lot merlinman!
 
Ahh what a shame, I had no idea that it was a new feature, I'm sorry!
Oh of course, that's really no problem at all, but I think I have to ask Colleague if I'm allowed to his his edited version where he cleaned up some sand?

Well, here's a higher resolution, it should look quite the same as the smaller one I did! (:

Ohh by the way, if it needs to be even higher or you want a different filetype, I need to do the healing as Colleague did, gotta have dinner first though x)!
 

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Oh wow, thanks alot Colleague! (:

Just because I'm bored, I tried to add in a "beam of light" as if the sun is sending out a big ray of light over the text, I don't know if it looks "overkilled" now xD

beam_of_light.png
 
I think it creates too many washed out highlights. I know there wasn't any detail to work with anyway but unless you can tone down the ray so that it shows up but doesn't brighten so wide a swath, it could work. Maybe try using hard light and overlay at different opacities and check the effect. Maybe even try multiply.
 
Yeaah, I think you're right it's being too bright and too much, I tried to mess around with it, but Hard light didn't really look all that good, nor did multiply.. I heard that's an important thing for a good artist to know when to stop adding more to the picture, and I think I've reached that point :P
 
Yes it looks less natural.
But it can be not a problem depending on what you want.

For me it's more like a holiday photo I would like to frame on my wall. So I look for something natural and realistic.
But for an advertisement or a fabulous tale or something like that, it would be good!
 
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