Dave Adshead
How much!
I've recently been photographing Gannets at Bempton cliffs, and like most photographers I've always a large number of photographs that need deleting for what ever reason. In the first photograph for instance the Gannet's left wing is just clipped, I find this so annoying.
So I decided to try and rescue it, its the first time I've tried anything like this. So here goes.
First I increased the canvas size at the top by 2 cms, I then copied the top 2 cms of the image and pasted it into the extended canvas area. This obviously copied in part of the birds left wing, so I cloned the extra piece of wing out.
I then made a small selection of the birds right wing tip, copied it, flipped it so it was a mirror image of itself, I then could use it as the birds left wing tip, moved it in position and blended it all in to fit.
Which gave me the result in the second photograph, not perfect, but I'm pleased with it and I'm sure with a bit more practice I'll get better.
All done with a mouse, I did have a Wacom tablet until it went pear shaped, I'm really going to have to invest in another.
So I decided to try and rescue it, its the first time I've tried anything like this. So here goes.
First I increased the canvas size at the top by 2 cms, I then copied the top 2 cms of the image and pasted it into the extended canvas area. This obviously copied in part of the birds left wing, so I cloned the extra piece of wing out.
I then made a small selection of the birds right wing tip, copied it, flipped it so it was a mirror image of itself, I then could use it as the birds left wing tip, moved it in position and blended it all in to fit.
Which gave me the result in the second photograph, not perfect, but I'm pleased with it and I'm sure with a bit more practice I'll get better.
All done with a mouse, I did have a Wacom tablet until it went pear shaped, I'm really going to have to invest in another.
