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I had the opportunity to take a few pics in Donnie's yard yesterday. His purple and white butterfly bushes are blooming nicely, and I chased several varieties of butterflies and bees. My daily is a Common Buckeye although it looks far from common to me. I must confess that I have fixed the butterflies' lower left wing injury in the photo I posted as my daily. See below for a cropped but unfixed image.
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To make this fix, I saved a copy of the original photo. I brought up both the copy and original in PSE7. I did a horizontal flip on the copy and then used the quick select tool to select the corresponding undamaged area on the the wing and copy it to a new layer. I slid the wing layer over to the original butterfly and fit it into place like a puzzle piece rotating it a bit and stretching it a tad. I had to clone out a small section of the torn wing with the green background. I merged the piece layer and the original layer and did a tad more clone work to blend any seams.
Here's a dragonfly shot from Donnie's yard too. Love the green body color!
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Two yellow Eastern Tiger Swallowtails were also on the butterfly bushes, but both had torn wings with more damage than I could repair.
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1 comment:
Super editing work! Well done!
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