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Quick Fix: Seaside Digital EffectsEasy ways to be creative in the digital darkroom |
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This is an okay picture of two seagulls. I think the image would look
better without the “dead space” between the two birds. No problem.
To get the birds closer together, I used the Marquee tool. I selected
the bird on the right, cut it out of the image and pasted it closer to
the bird on the left. Careful positioning, using the Clone Stamp tool
and some blurring to hide the line make the image look fairly
realistic. But we’re not talking about reality here! Read on.
Next, I applied the Midnight Sepia filter in a Photoshop plug-in called nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 from nik Multimedia.
After looking at the picture, I had the idea to create a reflection. I
increased the canvas size of my document vertically, then duplicated
the original image and flipped it. I dragged it into position and
carefully placed it in my original document.   In the digital darkroom, we can transform our vertical pictures into horizontal images by increasing only the width of a picture. My original vertical image has a width of 4.31 inches. By increasing the width to 12 inches, I now have a picture that looks like it would fill the screen of a high-definition television. The superwide image was the result of increasing the width to 25 inches.
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