"HELP" Please

[Renee Marquis]

Okay I know I posted this picture up awhile ago... but I have the b/g wanting this image into an 8x10 print (camera and photoshop keeps images as an 8x12 crop) I have worked on this long enough.....
So question#1 is... how do I get this print to go into an 8x10 when I go into PS and use file new and then Edit Transform and then scale down the images it smooches to much. I need this into an 8x10 print?
Quetion #2 How do I replace color into the drab sky?

Boy do I feel really, really stupid when it comes to photoshop... I dont know how to use layers at all. Thanks for any help you pro photoshop Kings & Queens:confused:

[george.monaghan]

Hi Rene,

The crop tool in PS can be changed along the top - the boxes are sizes and resoloution: type in "10 in" then "8 in" then "300" pi.

The sky, if just needing a bit more colour, can be painted. Go to the colour swatch, the black on white boxes in the left toolbar that houses the crop/healing/magify etc. Double click the boxes and you will get a range of colours to choose from, pick a nice sky blue - or go to the colour picker, that's the tool that looks like an "eye dropper" and pick on the blue in the sky.

use the paint brush tool - thats right beside the "healing brush" and set the slider on the top toolbar to "Opacity" 25% - "Flow" 5% (or there abouts in numbers)

Nice big brush size [ = smaller brush - ] = larger brush and slowly paint in some colour. Not having seen "your" sky this might work, if not then other measures have to be done like completely replacing the sky are.

Lets have a look at the picture please. I would be more than happy to have a go at it for you.

[Stemmy]

Post the shot Renee so we get an idea of your problems.

[Chris Hawkins]

Do post the shot - there are many ways of dealing with drab skies. Chris

[Renee Marquis]

oh pooo I thought I posted up the pictures... Hundred and one things going on this weekend we have like 7 guys staying with us... It is the first day of deer hunting season here.... Cooking, cleaning up after all these men.... (children I should say) well they shot two nice ones (I hope I dont make any one up set that I posted those) Now all you guys on here remember I need help on the other TWO pictures.... dont drool to long on these deer photos...PS... the guy holding the deer is from FL and this is the first time he has been up in NY hunting, they are small little deer down in FL. So this one was a monster for him. The other two boys are mine, hunters in trainning.

[Renee Marquis]

Here are the pictures... I cant resize the group picture down into an 8x10 when I do I cant get everyone into the pic.... same with the couple I loss to much of the clock... so how do I resize and keep it org....? and just need the sky bluier? Thanks for all your help you guys you are all the best! ... it is so hard when you are learning PS all alone on your own.... (the one image is what I tryed fixing and making the sky some what better)

[tonymidd]

I just do not understand the mentality of anyone who can kill such a thing of beauty for pleasure.

[Renee Marquis]

NO no Tony no kill for pleasue... we eat all of the meet, and make alot into jerky...

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

This image is exactly 8 x 10:

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

I had to cut the quality down considerably to allow posting but it can be cropped to size.

When cropping an image to a specific size something has to give! I merely moved down the top of the pictured (cut and move) to allow the crop to the size you wished.

If someone has a better method please post.

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

Not easy working on such small files but here is a quich method of cut sky then insert clouds with the move tool, blend in then tidy up the edges. The final image would have the group tidied up to delete any trace of the cloud image and get the exposure right.

[tonymidd]

NO no Tony no kill for pleasue... we eat all of the meet, and make alot into jerky...

I hear that agrument from my Scot's friends who hunt deer and it's an excuse not a reason. There is absolutly no excuse for any form of hunting in this day and age. If I want vension I go the butchers and buy farmed meat just as I would beef or pork etc. I've yet to meet someone who hunts a bull for his Sunday steak. We have wild deer around here but, apart from some poachers, they are not hunted. The rangers cull some of the old and/or road accident injured but that's all.

[Stemmy]

OK my method - first off take the picture with enough space to crop to any size you want later.

OK now that bit is over the way to crop it for you.

first thing is to increase the canvas size. So go to image canvass size and then click the relative button. this will add a predefined space to the image. Select to add 2 inches to the width of your image.

Your image should now have two white bands - one top and one bottom.

Now select the marquee tool and select an area. The first area is as follows.

In the group image posted here you select the whole length of the image from the top of their heads to the bottom of the new white section.

You now go to "image" - "free transform"

you will now be able to stretch the image into the white sections you have created.

you now do the same for the bottom.

You have now increased the width of your image and your crop will include all the guests.

Hope this makes sense.

You do loose a litlle bit of quality in the stretched areas but ive always found it better than trying to clone extra bits into your images.

here is the stretched image.

[Renee Marquis]

THANK YOU SO MUCH STEMMY & GEORGE.... what wonderful teachers you are... will give this a try!

[Renee Marquis]

I posted up the org. images and the edit ones.... please tell me what you think, if the edit ones will pass?

I had to go into File- New pick 8x10 and then drag my image over and then Edit, transform, scale down... scaled down only a little. then flatten layers... with the color fixing of the sky I did what George told me to do.... THANK YOU THANK YOU... I know now how to fix my skies. and I had to do the same steps as above I had to clone the bottom of the grass across the bottom. I hope it makes the mark?

[lostmysnorkel]

Yup the edit ones look OK Renee!

Mind you I have to agree with Tony re: the animals here!

I only ever eat farmed meat, never anything wild!

Once had a 'lively discussion' with my in-laws neighbour in NZ who brought some meat over and said "Shot these today but there's no room in our freezer, would you like them?"

When I said I don't eat wild meat he argued "We only hunt what we eat"

I said, "So how come your freezer's full? Why go and shoot more when there's plenty in the larder?"

He left in a bit of a huff and I got a rollicking off the in-laws for 'being rude' and that the meat would have lovely for dinner. I said that if they wanted to eat wild meat, they should go and shoot it themselves and was in the dog-house for a while!

When it comes to fish though, I won't eat wild or farmed unless it's been farmed in tanks, not the big nets you see in Lochs and estuaries.

I dived in an area with a lot of fish-farms and the amount of damage done to the local underwater environment was atrocious. Everything covered in a thick coating of black slimey fish excrement and uneaten feed.

Hving seen the beauty of lobsters in the wild, I almost feel nauseous now when I see then all pink and boiled on somebodies plate.

[george.monaghan]

Hi,

The images look fine and Photoshop is not the easiest bit of software to master but it is powerful.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Keep on clicking!

[JonUK]

To be honest I think there's a fine line between "hunting animals for food" and "only eating farmed animals". Personally I see no difference between the two, whether you "kill such a magnificent beast" or keep such a magnificent beast in a farm environment, one in which it was not intended to be kept in, makes no difference other than at least the hunted animal has gotton to spend some of its life in its natural environment. I do, however, respect the cultures of all. If tradition dictates that someone hunts for food then I don't have a problem with it. On a trip to Rhodes we were offered bbq'd sparrow, apparantly its a 'treat' over there.....and yes I tried it, to refuse would have been rude and I am afterall a meat eater.

Oh, and the edits look great Renee :icon_nice

[Renee Marquis]

Sorry I even went down that road.... but to each their own....:grin: