Clean up experts here please!

[matty]

you cant clean the glass on the inside, which is a shame....

http://www.tpfgallery.com/gallery2/d/13960-1/CRW_6726-01.jpg

anything that can be done to tidy this up??

[Marianne]

I took this great image into photoshop, duplicated the layer, applied gaussian blur 2.3 to the top layer which blurred the marks on the glass and using a layer mask I revealed the meercats from the layer below, graduating the opacity of the layer mask as I reached the outside edges of the cats, going from 100% to 5% opacity. I Flattened the image and applied an unsharp mask, settings, 130%, radius .4px. I really like this image, they are such great animals to watch!

http://www.barrianne-photos.co.uk/forumpics/mattysmeercats.jpg

[matty]

super job Marianne, will have a go at that i think, thank you!

[IanC_UK]

very nice job there Marianne ! :)

[Matt]

Matty, I thought you weren't going to post that piccie of the admin team!

Nicely processed Marianne :thumbs:

[noah]

hope you dont mind matty, but i loved the image and thought it could do with a little crop and warm up...

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/noahhowes/web%20pics/mattysmeercats.jpg

>used marianne's excellent tidyup
>added a bit of warm up filter
>brightened
>straightened
>ran tpf remove digi haze for a little more contrast
>a spot of fred mirandas velvia vision to add some colour to the animals and >then took it back away from the background as it became distracting
>flattened

[matty]

nice Job Noah! i really like the picture, just a shame about the glass!

Ive got the other picture of the staff team matt, the one with a big red baboons ass showing in the background while the other 5 pick their navels?

[Gemok]

you've got to love the digital era its amazing what some time and knowledge can do to transform a photo