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Final Project above. I elected to repair the original background
instead of replacing it. I probably did more removing of shadows around the eyes than I should have, but since that
was one of our exercises from an earlier lesson, I removed them. I used the burn and dodge tools on a neutral layer
to give depth and shadow to some of the overexposed and damaged areas. I ended up replacing the little boy's right hand
with a reflected copy of his left instead of trying to repair that section. I cloned him some new pants.
The picture above is of my barn last summer with hollyhocks growing
around it. I used this same photo for the next two: the night version and the winter version. Since I was running
out of space, I didn't post a rain version.
This is the same picture
of the barn--with a serious ice storm added! I cloned and patched to get rid of the grapevine and hollyhocks.
The only things not in the original photo are some leafless tree branches and a dusting of snow I cloned from another photo.
This is my first try at
creating icicles, and I went overboard a little. But now I've figured out how to do it and can adjust. I ran
the smart blur filter set on Edge Only on a copy of the photo. This gave me a white outline of the features of the barn
on a black background (Sara suggested the trick some months ago when we were trying to emboss photos with metal). Then
I used the magic wand to select and delete to remove the black and leave the white outline. This made the
photo look a little like it had a dusting of snow, but I wanted it to "drip." I thought about using the wind filter
on the white outline, but I couldn't make the wind blast blow downward. And finally it occurred to me if I couldn't
rotate the wind, rotate the image. Duh.... I rotated the image to the right and applied the wind filter (blast
mode) from the right on the white outline to get the dripping effect. I erased the icicles where they shouldn't have
been (e.g., inside the barn) and lowered the opacity of the icicle layer some.
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