tony brown

Have done utility work on everything but the face. Anyone wishing to continue is welcome to use this original size version to start with.

Ray Guselli created his post SIX YEARS AGO to which you are just now replying!

Great example of focus stacking. Nice work! I rate Helicon very highly and it does do auto-aligning but there is quite a degradation between the first (tripod version) and the hand-held one. More ...

My mistake. That file size is incorrect. It should read 20 M pixels and the actual file size depends on file type, monochrome or colour, and any compression involved.

From your previous post, I read; "I've been mildly puzzled by this thread. I'm in the middle of a huge and very long term scanning project, I've about 30000 slides, colour negs and b&w negs to do ...

Here's a suggestion. I have separated the sky from the ground to work on and then put them back together. I quite like the line of the wires but removed some of them.

Such a sympathetic and creative solution!

No, but I was three months ago when I wrote the comment above, thank you!
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... as you usually link to, multiple times. Share your own skills here.

Thank you Lois. Good to see you around here. Worked just the picture in grayscale, then re-tinted it back to match and returned it into the surroundings.

Almost ALL this guy's posts to this Forum have a link to:- https://fotosolution.com/images-editing-service/ a commercial retouching service. In this post it is 'image editing services' above. In a ...

Very well analysed. The columns were never vertical when OP photographed them. In close up, the arch can be seen as falling down somewhat between them. In fact the central entrance has remained ...

Find Edges/Invert/Greyscale/Adjustments (Brightness/Contrast)/sRGB profile. done as below (I needn't have created a layer):-

An interesting picture but your colour balance looks off to my eye. Here's my version:-

Love your work as always Ray, but in this picture I find the crossed feet of the boy REALLY distracting and keeps pulling my eye away from the main subjects. I tried retouching the legs to uncross ...

No and yes. Yes, it's the right Forum. No it's not moire. I have processed your RAW file in ACR with no sharpening or noise reduction but some exposure adjustment and using 'clarity'. Here is my ...