Retouching Techniques Reflection

 Here is my Retouching Techniques Reflection.

This is my image before spot healing:


This is the same image after using spot healing:

I chose this image because most of the snow was around the dogs face, which made it easier for me to remove the snow with the spot healing tool. The only part that I struggled with here is near the little collar because I found it difficult to tell if the dog had a patch of white fur or if it was snow. I still used the spot healing tool around that area. I think the dog had some white patches of fur, which is really cool since he is mostly brown. 

This is my image before using clone stamping:

                                           

This is the same image after clone stamping: 


I saw you stamp the eye to show me why the clone stamping tool wasn't working for me originally. So, I decided to stamp the eyes on the circle parts of the flowers since the cats eyes fit perfectly. I didn't want to add to many flowers because the cat is already surrounded by too many flowers, adding too many flowers would just make it look weird. So, I only added a little bit of yellow flowers on the right and orange flowers in the back behind the cats ears. I added just enough so it looks like there wasn't much change to the flowers. 

This is my image before removing a large object: 


This is the same image after removing a large object:


I was originally going to only use the clone stamping tool for this image, but then I realized that the flower that the cat was sniffing was perfect to remove. I used the lasso tool to choose the surrounding area of the flower, then I clicked edit at the top right of the screen, chose fill, and chose the content aware option to make the parts that were removed to blend in to the image. I used the clone stamping tool for the grass where the flower was in order to blend in the image a little more. You can protect your work by using non destructive image editing by using adjustment layers, masks, and virtual copies. These all allow you to make changes to an image without permanently altering the pixels. This made the image look like the cat is looking to the distance instead of smelling a flower. I enjoyed this project because it was self-explanatory and I would definitely do it again. 













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