Scrubbing Photos

[locoqueso]

I've taken up photography as a new hobby. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing behind the camera so I rely a lot on Photoshop to clean up my work.

Here's a picture that I took a while ago of a big, red barn in Wisconsin...



This is a Before and After comparison of the stuff I scrubbed out of the final image...



I consider it a challenge to remove unwanted junk from my photos. I try to clean it up enough where the viewer will look right past the edits. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't , but I'm happy with this one.

[jonyem]

Excellent work. But be careful, when people know you can do this, they'll either never trust your photos again, or want you to scrub their photos. I've experienced both.

[glasseye]

Good 'shopping locoqueso. I've used photoshop since version 3.0 and I've come to the conclusion that PS is nearly as important as the camera itself.

Layer Masks are key.

[locoqueso]

I think that I learned Photoshop on version 5 about 20 years ago but I only recently started to take my own photos. I rely heavily on the clone tool and layers to clean stuff up.

I have OCD so I'll sit and tweak pixels for hours. It can be mentally exhausting but I love it.

[glasseye]

Shooting raw? Tried Lightroom?

[locoqueso]

Shooting raw? Tried Lightroom?

No I haven't tried it. I've heard of Lightroom but never checked it out. I just assumed that it was a scaled back version of Photoshop but after reading up on it I now realize that I was mistaken. Thanks for the tip!

[glasseye]

If you're shooting raw, you'll love it.

Reviewing your work on the little house - that's not a "good" job, that's a superb job.