I wanted to do one of these before and after on the One Photo Focus blog, and may have not picked the right month for a first attempt 🙂 I wanted to do a lot my first time out and attempting to grab just the ship and put it elsewhere proved very challenging. A lot of grey sky with grey ship lines. So first I attempted to isolate the ship as much as possible in photo shop. Then I had to change my base photo because it had too much color and I was never going to fully be able to clear those line/sky aspects completely. After I had to change that direction I decided to add a heron.
I couldn’t decide if I wanted a huge heron, and “in perspective” heron, or a small one so I compromised on a little on the bigger side but not monster size
Because this wasn’t going to be my best work due to difficulty – I then added filters in photomax essentials in order to hide some of the less than great edits.
Before
The After
Kate - Photography 
Excellent job. It looks great
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Thanks!
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An intriguing image – well done!
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Thanks!
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If this “wasn’t going to be [your] best work” then I can hardly wait for next time. I always am amazed by people who can use photoshop or a similar app to isolate and reinserted images into a different base photo. Amazing! I love this!
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thanks trying to get all of the background sky out from behind the boat lines was challenging, I’m betting some of the other bloggers probably have better ways of doing that that I did
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That’s why I gave up trying. Can’t be done in Lightroom!
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