Photoshop challenge

stuart38 · 2 May 2006 at 19:27

This pic has me stumped, whatever I try I have not been able to get even close to an acceptible pic. I'ts frustrating that I didnt get a better angle but I was dangling precariously over a riverbank with my 20D and Sigma 100-300 and by the time I got more stable and out of the way of a fence post, the prime picture had gone

Large version here

So is it recoverable? or is it destined for the bin?

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 2 May 2006 at 19:33

You could bring the water back over that area. with some careful with replacing reflections etc etc. I aint having a go as I have been doing photo restoration all day and im totally bumed from it! I have had to reconstruct a completely scribbled photo!

ChroniC · 2 May 2006 at 19:48

Im assuming you just want to get the black bit on the left looking like the right. Should be able to do that with soem slective cloning.. Il see what i can do.

Out of interest does anyone think theres a profitable market for this if u can do it fairly well.

stuart38 · 2 May 2006 at 19:56

You can make money at anything if you're good enough at it

It's the black bit in the bottom left corner that needs something doing with it - you have artistic licence to do whatever you wish

ChroniC · 2 May 2006 at 21:28

right this is posing a lot more difficult than i thought.
To get rid of that i have to replace half the picture and its not looking realistic enough in the short attempt ive made. !!Look!! But given more time and effort, which seeing as i have a project in 2morow is something i dont have, i recon i can do it.

emetic · 2 May 2006 at 21:49

got bored, my effort

ChroniC · 2 May 2006 at 22:05

the difficulty is in matching any sort of ripple.

TerraS · 3 May 2006 at 02:22

Sometimes to save a photo, you have to look at things from a different angle.

stuart38 · 3 May 2006 at 13:42

thanks Chronic, BeaumonT and TerraS.... this is definitly outside of my current capabilities.. and I suspect the amount of work necessary would be too great to justify this picture. I like the idea of the bizarre framing but I think this is indeed destined for the bin (or at least a folder labelled "must learn how to use photoshop")

cheers for your attempts anyway

stu