changing sky and PP..

hello friends,

first of thank you all for encouraging me to learn few things about photo editing through your tips,and useful links about it,

here in this image i tried to change the sky but the transition doesn't looks smooth around the edges of the tree,and looks artificial perhaps, i have also tried the reflection of the sky in the water here is the image...





and here is the original...



hope you all find it interesting....

Here is my version:



Regards....Allen

I used Vertus for an extraction, then Corel for finishing touches, also, as you did, added ripples to the foreground.

jim007 said:

jim007 wrote:

hello friends,

first of thank you all for encouraging me to learn few things about photo editing through your tips,and useful links about it,

here in this image i tried to change the sky but the transition doesn't looks smooth around the edges of the tree,and looks artificial perhaps, i have also tried the reflection of the sky in the water here is the image...



and here is the original...



hope you all find it interesting....

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thanks,,thanks a lot for fantastic efforts..you all have done..tree and original background made my task difficult, but you all did the marvelous job ..hope i will learn something..thanks ...Again..and salute to all...

I played with your version, thinking that I might be able to give you a few ideas.

I corrected the darker vignette using curves (the Paint With Light action would be great here too); painted (in colour mode) and cloned over any of the brighter and fringed portions of the trees on the horizon; selected the sky with a feathered selection tool (fine tuned in quick mask mode); copied the sky to a new layer and saved the selection to an alpha channel; inverted it and moved it down to the water; did the same with the shoreline and trees. With all of these on their own layers, each could be masked, warped, blended, etc to suit. I then added some wave texture to the water with Flaming Pear's Flood filter and finally, used curves and blending modes to add contrast, enhance the colours, etc.

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