Changing the BG

[Eric Patdu]

Hello,

I posted a photo of a Tufted Titmouse in the "Wild Birds from Around the World" board with a fence background.

I decided to try doing major surgery on the photo by changing the BG. What I did was I took a shot of an OOF tree and used that to replace the original BG making it a Digital Art instead.

Let me know your comments.


Original Photo






Altered Photo

[Neon Rosell II]

Wow! great job on this one, Eric! I could hardly see the border where you cropped the bird. Flawless merging of the two photos, as if an original.

[Bobby Kintanar]

I agree with Neon, that PP work is astounding. Great job!

[Conrad Arellano]

Outstanding PP. Maybe you can share to us some tricks Cheers

[Eric Patdu]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

@conrad - Just did a careful selection of the bird to remove the hard edges. I think that was the longest selection process I have done. Hahaha....

Anyway, I first used the Magnetic Lasso tool to make a rough selection of the bird and then refined the selection using Quick Mask. I then imported the new background to replace the old one.

[Renoir Abrea]

this would require some wild imagination' very nice'

[alainpascua]

Excellent PP!

[Eric Patdu]

Thanks for the comments.

I only did it because I was envious of you guys shooting with beautiful bokehs.

[Clemn A. Macasiano Jr.]

Excellent work ...