Damien Symonds

Oh, somebody else reported this problem too. What about when you open them into ACR? Still landscape?

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What? No, of course not! You blend the two skies together.

Great! Now, if you still want the other sky, it shouldn't be any trouble to put it in.

No, just clip it. Ctrl Alt G. PLEASE don't wait any longer to take the Layers & Masks Class.

Good! Maybe use a Hue/Sat layer to slightly darken the grass around its base?

No, there should be an entirely white mask on that layer, and it should be clipped to the fox layer.

Gosh, great work getting rid of the brown dog!!! Well done. Now, regarding plausibility, the fox is too bright. I'd add a Hue/Saturation layer immediately above the fox layer, and clip it thereto. Then lower the Lightness slider a bit (maybe to about -15?).

No, just the adjustment layers. Leave the pixel layers turned on.

Could you temporarily turn off all the adjustment layers and show me photo?

However ... There's not enough source detail to use the clone tool. You'll need to find another photo where the brown dog wasn't standing in that patch of grass, so you can transpose that area.

Great. So if you wish to edit the brown dog, you duplicate the "Background copy" layer. Don't duplicate the Background layer.

We'll worry about that later. Put the tower in where you want it for now.

What editing have you done on the "Background copy" layer so far?

Well, why don't you try putting the tower into the photo first, then we'll discuss sky options.

Well sure, but why not just edit that sky to give it some punch? This is with a Levels adjustment: If we could achieve something you liked with this photo, then you could just place the tower in.

Yeah, I think you'll really need the originals.

May I see the colour SOORs?

May I ask why you feel you need the trees from the tower photo at all? Is there a particular reason why you don't like the horizon (or the sky, for that matter) from the foreground photo?

Could you post the second one for me? The tower photo, lighter? You already have a good "Tower photo, darker" version, and also the foreground photo is already good I think.

I think it might have to be a three-image composition. One of the foreground photo, one of the tower photo bright enough to match the foreground photo (sacrifice the sky), and one of the tower photo dark enough to keep the sky detail.

I do. Let me see the two separate images.

@Jenny_11?

80 is a fair starting point, yes.

Near the bottom of this page, we're trying the "Different preset" step. Do you still have your piece of paper where you wrote down the readings from your monitor's presets?