Old Photo - Need Help: Here's a photo of an old house in the Cataloochee Valley, Smoky Mountains National Park, WNC, taken in 1980. Yep, all the houses are well preserved by the NC...

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

Here's a photo of an old house in the Cataloochee Valley, Smoky Mountains National Park, WNC, taken in 1980. Yep, all the houses are well preserved by the NC staff. The image needs to be cropped and the burnt out sky needs to be replaced. It was taken in the early morning, around 6.30am. Something weird happened to the chimney. I don't remember fooling with it, but maybe I did. (5mp camera.)
You have at it in any way you please. Have fun.

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MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

This is my attempt.

Shakey wrote:

Here's a photo of an old house in the Cataloochee Valley, Smoky Mountains National Park, WNC, taken in 1980. Yep, all the houses are well preserved by the NC staff. The image needs to be cropped and the burnt out sky needs to be replaced. It was taken in the early morning, around 6.30am. Something weird happened to the chimney. I don't remember fooling with it, but maybe I did. (5mp camera.)
You have at it in any way you please. Have fun.

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Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

MMC wrote:

This is my attempt.

MMC, would you also share how you did that?
I'm impressed, your "attempt" makes the photo look very natural. Could be a learning experience for many of us that visit here.

MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

Thanks for your compliments. I am sorry but I do not remember all steps. I will try to tell what I remember.I corrected white balance and hue and saturation in ACR filter /Photoshop CC/, selected sky using Magic Wand tool and Quick selection tool and removed sky, opened file with appropriate sky and corrected it's brightness and saturation then used it as a layer, "fixed" chimney using Clone stamp tool, cropped. Try to do it and show your result. Good luck.

Morning Star wrote:

MMC, would you also share how you did that?
I'm impressed, your "attempt" makes the photo look very natural. Could be a learning experience for many of us that visit here.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

MMC wrote:

Thanks for your compliments. I am sorry but I do not remember all steps. I will try to tell what I remember.I corrected white balance and hue and saturation in ACR filter /Photoshop CC/, selected sky using Magic Wand tool and Quick selection tool and removed sky, opened file with appropriate sky and corrected it's brightness and saturation then used it as a layer, "fixed" chimney using Clone stamp tool, cropped. Try to do it and show your result. Good luck.

Straight-forward ! Thanks MMC. I have quickly jotted down these steps, to try them out later. (I really have to close UHH for now and go back to my translation work...).

Maybe a hint, especially for those of us whose memories are not as good as they used to be:
When I'm pleased with the results of "fixing" a photo, before closing, I'll sometimes copy the steps from the history panel on a blank strip attached to the image. It will record the tools I used and the order I used them in, but not how I used that tool. Even so, I've found it helpful.

MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

You are welcom. What is your translation work? My memory also is not perfect but I remember major steps and sometimes it is useful for me try new way with new job. So I do not make any notes in such cases.

Morning Star wrote:

Straight-forward ! Thanks MMC. I have quickly jott... (show quote)

SonyA580 Loc: FL in the winter & MN in the summer

MMC did a great job on this! This photo is very difficult to adjust properly because of all the contrast and saturation problems. Parts of it are over saturated and lack contrast while other parts are just the opposite. Honestly, I fooled around with it for an hour trying to balance everything out and I could not come to what, in my opinion, was an acceptable color print. Sooooo, I went to the grayscale mode in PS, tweaked the contrast a bit, stretched the canvas vertically and horizontally, and here is the result. I hope you don't mind the radical departure because I think it makes a great black and white photo.

Catalooche B&W

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R.G. Loc: Scotland

I couldn't do much with the sky, so I did my usual tweaking and playing with the colours and lighting. The main objective was to reduce or eliminate the garishness without leaving the whole shot colourless and under-saturated.

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Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Off topic!

MMC wrote:

You are welcom. What is your translation work? My memory also is not perfect but I remember major steps and sometimes it is useful for me try new way with new job. So I do not make any notes in such cases.

One of my other hobbies is bobbin lace making. Once every quarter I translate the magazine for the Dutch 'National Organisation Lace Arts Netherlands' from Dutch into English.
I just finished page 6 of 24, but want to have the whole thing finished by the weekend. My deadline is August 21, but I need a couple of days to let it sit before reading it over prior to sending it back to The Netherlands for publication.
It it wasn't for our holidays, it would have been done already :-)

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Another I know you will like. This is the most best one yet.

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Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Bill Houghton wrote:

Another I know you will like. This is the most best one yet.

Cute!
Betcha he didn't know it was a selfie :twisted:

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Morning Star wrote:

Cute!
Betcha he didn't know it was a selfie :twisted:

LOL - those Englishmen can't figure'em out some times. LOL

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

used PS CC 2015 camera raw , brightness control , burn tool , paint tool , Tommy

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remember fooling with it, but maybe I did. (5mp camera.)
You have at it in any way you please. Have fun.[/quote]

I was wondering if those playing with the photograph would consider removing the little sign.

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

Bill Houghton wrote:

Another I know you will like. This is the most best one yet.

You gotta admit that I don't age very fast. In fact, I look kinda cute especially when I dangle from the top bar of the bridge . . . . . but that's youngsters for ya. :oops:

Oh yes! The photograph! It is without question the best image I have seen. Five stars, Bill.
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