Created for Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces:

New Challenge 177 May 2024 RE-INTERPRETING

A modern twist on Vermeer's Milkmaid

All work and modifications done in Photoshop Beta 24, using Generative Fill

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Created for KP Treat This 327

Thanks to Catness Grace for starter image.

All work done in Photoshop Beta23

This is a version of a boat located in Charleston Shipyard in Oregon created in Generative Fill by the prompt of a boat on the rocks.

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 979 ~ Sword Fern

Thanks to skagitrenee for starter image

All work done in Photoshop 2024

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A bright-eyed Shetland horse foal, standing in a field of spring daisies and buttercups, seems to be trying to smile for the camera. The breed can be dated back as far as the bronze age. Photographed on a breeding farm. Generative fill was used to remove a distant adult horse from the background.

30/11/2024 www.allenfotowild.com

I wasn’t expecting this—but the iPhone completely outshone my mirrorless camera in this shot. The moment I framed the scene, it just felt right—the exposure, the balance, the glow in the sky. Meanwhile, my Sony setup forced me to shoot a stop underexposed. With no tripod and a crowded street, everything in the viewfinder looked nearly pitch black.

What really brought this image to life was a little help from AI. This street is never empty, even after sunset. I took another shot from a block farther back—arguably the stronger composition—but it was packed with people. Removing that many cleanly is still a work in progress. Here, though, the tool worked beautifully. No more waiting, no more dodging tourists—just a clean frame and the right light.

I actually returned to the same street the next morning around 4 a.m., hoping for a better shot without people. But I got slightly lost, and by the time I arrived, the sun was already up. The light felt flat, less poetic. That’s when I realized: I’d already caught the moment I was after. Not with my best lens, but with my eyes open—and my phone ready.

Sure, if you’re obsessed with pixel-level detail, a proper camera still wins. But in this moment, the iPhone held its own—and then some.

For Sliders Sunday

Theme: Post Processed to the Max

Zoom in for figures made using Photoshop Generative Fill

My second attempt at using the AI tools in the new Photoshop beta. The chimp, the city skyline, the railroad tracks & the pile of debris in the right foreground were added with generative text.

The Memorial Tournament

Dublin, Ohio

Created for DIGITALMANIA ~ Something beginning with S

All work done in Photoshop 2024 and MidJourney

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A Photoshop Generative Fill edit of an original photo (see other post for details).

Created for Kreative People ~ Treat This # 347

Thanks to Brillianthues for starter images.

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 1027

Thanks to Bodrins for starter image.

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week 1015 ~ Reunión

Thanks to seguicollar for starter image.

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!

Created forMIXMASTER CHALLENGE #74

➤ NO PEOPLE

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!

Created for: Photoshop Contest week 952

Original photo by: Jaci XIV

All work done in Photoshop Beta23

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Majestic Landscapes of Patagonia, Norway and New Zealand in motion with orchestral music

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Using generative fill AI in photoshop for photo enhancement. I removed a couple of buses, some lampposts & signs & a few other odds & ends. I also straightened the photo & figured while I was at it, why not use Sky Replacement to add some drama? Not intended to deceive anyone into believing this is a real world scene, just experimenting with the capabilities of this new tool.

See my comment for the "before" version.

Created for KP Treat This 337

Thanks to Mike for starter image

All work done in Photoshop 2024 and Fotosketcher

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Keine Sorge, auch in Masuren haben Kühe Köpfe. Hier ist der Kopf aber wohl aufgrund einer zu intensiven Photoshop-Bearbeitung verloren gegangen.

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Don't worry, cows in Masuria have heads too. However, the head here was probably lost due to excessive Photoshop editing.

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Please darken your room and

turn the brightness of your display all the way up,

lay back, press L button and

enjoy this picture in full screen size ;-)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . looks muuuch better. PROMISE !

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Thanks for your visit, 1000 thanks for commenting

Thanks for watching the picture before FAVing 😉

Met een kleine generative fill

Created in Photoshop Generative Fill and MidJourney

All work done in Photoshop 2024 and MidJourney

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Thanks in advance for all your time and support :)

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Here's the original photo: www.flickr.com/photos/wsmears/53040891730/in/dateposted-p...

De Groote Ossendrift - Gisteravond was de eerste aflevering van #gezonkenmeesters te zien. Terwijl ik de kunstenaars aan het werk zag dacht ik "zou ik ook zoiets kunnen doen, maar dan met mijn foto's?".

Dat leek me leuk om eens te proberen.

Ik zocht twee geschikte foto's op (een landschapje, en een herder) en ik plakte er een kleine kudde koeien en een kerktoren in (beide gegenereerd met Photoshop).

Het kan vast veel gelikter, maar ik ben tevreden

Created for DUC23 ~ October Challenge

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Created for Mystic Challenge Group Halloween Challenge 2023

composite/photomontage - Photoshop Generative Fill

Created for KP Treat This 326

All work done in Photoshop Beta23

Created for : Play to game challenge

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In what was originally a photo of two dead trees, a little Generative Fill wonkiness found this. I kind of like it.

In 1952, Clyde Lee took the bus from Shoshone, CA to San Bernadino. He returned to town with this 1937 Chevrolet. Clyde and his wife drove the vehicle for several years until it fell into disrepair. Eventually the remains of the vehicle were placed with the Shoshone Museum where it was surrounded by considerable detritus. With the help of Generative Fill I placed it in a more pleasing environment. The actual location is below.

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 1039 ~ Aves ~

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Created for DUC24 ~ December 2024

Thanks to seguicollar for starter image.

All work done in Photoshop 2025

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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!

Created for Photoshop Contest ~ Week 1035 ~ St Patrick's Point

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Majestic Landscapes of Patagonia, Norway and New Zealand in motion with orchestral music

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Telegram channel:: https://t.me/coronaviking

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Majestic Landscapes of Norway, Patagonia and New Zealand in motion with orchestral music

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Telegram channel:: https://t.me/coronaviking

This is a panorama of a classic green auroral arc (with himts of red) across the northern sky defining the sweep of the auroral oval. I shot this in the early evening on November 9, 2024 at sea during a coastal cruise in Norway on the m/s Nordkapp, a ship in the Hurtigruten fleet of ferries and cruise ships. This is looking north from the bow viewing area of Deck 5 of the ship. We were between Trondheim and Bodo this night. A Kp5 level storm sparked bright aurora early in the evening. The seas were calm and smooth.

The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are at centre in the north. Vega is setting at far left.

Technical:

This is a panorama of 7 segments, each a 1-second exposure (short to minimize trailing from ship motion) with the Nikkor 20mm lens wide open at f/1.8 and Nikon Z6III at ISO 3200. Stitched with PTGui with manual control points needed to assist in the alignment. Shooting a panorama from a moving ship is tricky and has to be done very quickly, ensuring each segment is as level as possible.

This is a 200° panorama of the arch of the northern Milky Way rising over the Badlands landscape of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. This was the night of May 31/June 1, 2024, when from this latitude of 50° 45' N the sky is not fully dark even in the middle of the night, here at about 1:30 a.m. MDT. So the sky retains a blue tint, especially to the north at left.

So this records quite a colorful sky contrasting with the earth tones of the Badlands landscape of eroded bentonite clay hoodoos, iron-rich rocks, and sagebrush. And I like the field of white flowers mimicking the stars above.

Adding to the sky colours are bands of green oxygen airglow, especially at centre to the east, and perhaps yellow sodium airglow at right. At left to the north the horizon is tinted pink from a faint arc of aurora borealis. A Kp5 show of Northern Lights was predicted for this night but nothing of the sort materialized!

The mass of stars toward the galactic centre at right in Sagittarius and Scorpius also glow with a combined yellow light, in part due to absorption of shorter wavelengths of starlight by interstellar dust in the spiral arms of the Galaxy. It is that obscuring dust that creates the dark regions along the Milky Way, splitting the Milky Way starting in Cygnus at top and extending at right down into Serpens..

The stars also have their own colours, such as blue Vega at top and yellow Arcturus at upper right. Yellow Antares in Scorpius shines above the hoodoo at lower right.

But the most striking sky colours are the red and magenta from glowing hydrogen gas in star-forming nebulas along the MilkyWay and toward the galactic core rising at right. I emphasized those through the use of a filter that isolates that red wavelength of "hydrogen-alpha" emitted by the nebulas. The most obvious H-alpha feature is the large round nebula at right, Sharpless 2-27 surrounding the star Zeta Ophiuchi above Scorpius. The red nebulas in the Milky Way to the left of Sh2-27 are from Messier objects and other faint nebulas in Sagittarius and Serpens.

At the top of the arch is the constellation of Cygnus, filled with red emission nebulas in thespiral arm we live in, the largest and brightest being the North America Nebula near the star Deneb. To the left farther along the Milky Way in the northeast are numerous nebulas in Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, most in the next spiral arm farther out from us. Much farther away, is the Andromeda Galaxy just rising at left.

However, it takes long exposures and special techniques to bring out the colours in what to the eye would be a dim black-and-white scene.

I shot this from the Trail of the Fossil Hunters, a favourite spot of mine, on a perfect spring night — mild, no wind, no smoke, no dew, and no bugs! The trail winds off up the hill as if toward the galactic centre.

TECH DETAILS:

This is a blend of 3 different 200° panoramas, all with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera on the MSM Nomad tracker, and with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and wide open at f/2.8 and with the camera in portrait orientation:

- A initial pano, untracked, of 16 segments 15° apart, each 2-minutes at ISO 3200, taken at night with just starlight and ambient sky light providing the illiumination. I shot an earlier "blue hour" panorama as well, shot before I could polar align the tracker, but I did not use it, as aligning it proved too difficult!

- Immediately afterwards, I turned on the tracker motor to take another 16 segments also at 15° spacings, each 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with no filter.

- The final panorama was again tracked, of 8 segments only 30° apart (still with sufficient overlap for stitching to work, and speeding up the shooting), and each 2-minute exposures at ISO 6400 with a 12nm bandwidth Astronomik H-alpha filter installed in front of the sensor (a "clip-in" filter). The lens has to be refocused after installing such a filter, no easy task with the heavily filtered image so dim.

Each pano was stitched in PTGui, then blended and masked with Photoshop, requiring a lot of manual warping to align them and to get the horizons to match. I used generative AI fill to add in content to fill otherwise blank corners in the ground pano. The H-alpha sky pano contributes just the red nebulas, via BlendIf and masking. I also used the StarXTerminator plug-in to eliminate the stars from that pano. A Nik Collection Color EFX filter added an "Orton" style glow effect. Adobe DeNoise AI was applied to the ground and unfiltered raw sky segments before stitching. Topaz Photo AI applied to the ground for some further mild sharpening. Most satellite trails removed with removal tools.

Again, all frames were shot in quick sucession from the same tripod position.