Into Autumn (orig. out of camera)
The original version of the previous shot. The foliage is beautiful but there are a couple issues with it. It was taken on a frontage road with an industrial park on one side and the highway 26 freeway on the other.
I couldn't find a crop I really liked that still showed enough detail. I really wanted to do a vertical and just crop out the sides but with the open space between the rows prevented getting as many trees into the crop as I wanted.
I'm evaluating a trial copy of Photoshop CS4 and one of the new features is a new transform method called content-aware scale. It intelligently carves out areas of detail and preserves them, while removing areas with less detail. It seemed to work pretty good, the end result was pretty smart with only a few artifacts near the center of the frame that I could have cloned out if i were printing this.
To see a live demo and get a better idea of this functionality see this video:
www.photoshopuser.com/?page=cs4/videos&video=dave_con...
Into Autumn (orig. out of camera)
The original version of the previous shot. The foliage is beautiful but there are a couple issues with it. It was taken on a frontage road with an industrial park on one side and the highway 26 freeway on the other.
I couldn't find a crop I really liked that still showed enough detail. I really wanted to do a vertical and just crop out the sides but with the open space between the rows prevented getting as many trees into the crop as I wanted.
I'm evaluating a trial copy of Photoshop CS4 and one of the new features is a new transform method called content-aware scale. It intelligently carves out areas of detail and preserves them, while removing areas with less detail. It seemed to work pretty good, the end result was pretty smart with only a few artifacts near the center of the frame that I could have cloned out if i were printing this.
To see a live demo and get a better idea of this functionality see this video:
www.photoshopuser.com/?page=cs4/videos&video=dave_con...