billf wrote:I'm intrigued by Ian's editing and would like to know how it's done. It's not a simple crop as the perspective has changed the foreground rocks seem to have moved to the right and the castle does look more prominent.
I think all of the treatments have merit, it's a familiar landscape to me but one I've never tried to capture. When we can travel again I might have ago but would be delighted to get anything as good as this.
Cheers Bill Fleming.
BIll - on the first-posted image (not the second, cropped version) I used a lasso selection tool around the castle, including a lot of sky/sea/beach. Copied that with Ctrl-C, and immediately Ctrl-V pasted it back in. Ctrl-T lets you then transform the size of that paste, and I enlarged it to defeat the exisiting perspectivity (is that a word?) and moved it to cover all the previous castle pixels. Then, I applied a mask to that paste, and black-painted on it with a soft-ish brush at low flow percentage to gradually blend the edges of the paste so that it looks natural.
For the rock, I did the same, but included all the sea to the left and edge of the pic. Ctrl-C, then Ctrl-V, Ctrl-T again, moving the pasted rocks to the right, to get a chunk of them out of the way, with newly-pasted sea covering the left of the old rocks. Again, masked and blended, then the whole image cropped square from the left edge.
It would be much better with a hi-res image, of course.