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Illustration 001

At what point does a photo become an illustration or work of art? Photoshop recently launched its Sky Replacement tool, and this weekend I gave it a whirl. You can see the original image here:

 

www.flickr.com/gp/starwizard/riCyoi

 

The sky replacement was very, very simple. The water reflection took a lot of trial and effort; it's not yet part of the sky replacement built-in tool. The water area still needs about an hour more of attention to clean up some pixel peeping details.

 

It's an amazing transformation into a believable scene I dream of capturing - I am sure I could sell this as a work of art, and most people would never question the authenticity.

 

At what point do our edits change a photo to an illustration or work of art?

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Uploaded on November 1, 2020
Taken on October 30, 2020