July Image -  Cub Test

How I did it -

The photo was taken at a local air show. "Sun-n-Fun in Lakeland FL.  Lucky there was no sun for the heat issue, but not too good for photos.   Took the plane photo and erased everything that didn't look like a plane. Also worked on the paper sign in the windshield with the clone stamp tool. Kind'a what wood carvers do, i.e. cut off everything that doesn't look like the animal their carving .    Put the sky photo under the plane and moved the plane around with transform till I liked it.  Dup'd the background ( sky) and erased with a brush around the edges of this layer.  Then painted white on the original background.  Added a drop shadow to the sky layer,  and thats it ...

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COMMENTS:
 

Barb Athanasiou	Boy are you good with your pictures! It is hard to realize that your final shot came from an airplane taxiing on the ground! I really like the final image – with all the miscellaneous stuff erased and the sky added. The border makes it look like a painting which is ready for hanging on the wall!
Sarah Donner	Great job! Great sky, great frame! The only thing that might have made it better would have been to have captured the entire span of the plane. Sometimes it is a good idea to just step back a bit from the subject to leave more space around it. Would the plane have been flying with its wheels down? Maybe tilt it down as if landing, or up as if taking off in order to make it more realistic.
Kathy Goldner	Wow. The before and after picture of the airplane are so different! Fantastic job!
Dr. Mohanan Nair	Nice job. Great border. Only technical fault I see is that the propeller movement is not there. I think you can select the propeller and give some amount of motion blur filter effect. Since the tail wing flap is in raised position, it is better to show the plane as going up.
Sally Grugan	Neat picture! What a lot of work!. You did a superb job.  Thanks for telling how you did it.
Timothy D. Morton	Very cleaver and thus makes one think it's actual flying not taking off or landing and the border not being even makes the shot come alive.

Member Bio
	Charles Blume - Biography I am 69 years old and been interested in photography since the 60's.  I'm a native New Yorker but have lived in Florida 2003.  I belong to two photo groups here in Florida, the Sun Coast Camera Club and the St. Petersburg Photographic Art Society.  I currently use a Nikon camera after many years with Olympus equipement and work with a Mac computer.