[PRCo] Re: Kodak
Jim Holland
PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com
Sat Nov 3 15:30:32 EDT 2007
John Bromley is an Extremely Gifted // Highly Talented individual when
it comes to Computers / PhotoShop / Digital Images ---- he is
obviously naturally artistic and does far more than produce marvelous
results -- his results could be called Miraculous~!~!~!~! It would
seem he missed his calling and could have profoundly altered the
photographic world had he pursued that career~!~!~!
Fred Schneider wrote:
> I need to acknowledge that the quality built into some of those ink
> jet printers today is marvelous. You can do wonders in Photo Shop to
> clean up old images. Over the last year our former list member John
> Bromley has given me hundreds of prints he made from new digital
> images, as well as faded, scratched and dirty color slides and color
> negatives which he worked on in Photo Shop to produce absolutely
> stunning visuals. The nice thing about Photo Shop is that John has
> also become quite adept at cleaning up distracting elements in
> pictures in minutes that used to take me forever with a paint brush or
> an air brush. If a utility pole is in the wrong place or an automobile
> is clearly distracting and ruins the composition of a picture, John
> has become quite good at removing it and cloning the background over
> it in minutes. This technique is also good if the photographer wasn't
> holding the camera level and you need to straighten the picture and
> rebuild part of a building. I also remember one picture where the film
> tape fell off in a camera and wiped out a group of trees in a scene on
> top of Mount Royal in Montreal ... John rebuilt the trees simply by
> cloning other nearby trees. That is a skill that is possible in Photo
> Shop that you could have never done properly with art colors and a
> paint brush.
>
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