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Posted on 30/11/25 03:31:01 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3183 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
David, I must congratulate you with the quality of your latest entry. I too decided to remove the ugly cube entirely, and the blue reflections. I also replaced the horrid banner over the organ and, like you, did a whole lot of cutting and pasting to clean up the old church. I agree with just about everything you wrote. The only time I use AI is to extract difficult and complicated figures. The world is catching on to AI at amazing speed, and countries are probably using it already to help fight their petty wars. God help us if they invent a version which is more inelligent than the brightest human. But I digress. My pleasure is in actually doing the work, not trying to find ways to avoid it. My entry will appear at the end of the week, as I have some polishing to do, a job I really like and stretch out to the end. |
Posted on 30/11/25 09:08:39 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5921 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
Gordon I knew you didn't. You don't have them available in CS and you have done the job beautifully. What you had to remove was a relatively small quantity behind the cube and as you say it was very finicky with lots of small operations. You can understand why it took me so long. I can promise you that removing the scaffold is much much harder. 
Michael I don't really share your enthusiasm for some of the fiddly work. I am happy to let boring technical stuff, like selections and removals, be handled by AI. But I need to be able to feel that the end result is mine and thus keep AI to a minimum and never use it for fresh creation. In this instance it was a 'test myself' myself challenge. Under normal circumstances, with this image, I would have allowed myself the luxury of AI removal for the scaffold. But I chose here to insist that the restoration was absolutely true to the original church and indistinguishable from it and I think that is only possible by hand. By the time I had finished I was too exhausted for banner removal which, ironically, would have been simple.. I won't be attempting anything else quite so foohardy for a while to come, I think. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 30/11/25 11:03:52 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3183 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
David If you are mentally tired I can understand, as I also sometimes get bored with a Challenge. If you are physically tired then maybe you are trying to get the job done too quickly. I don't suffer from that. My aim is called "job satisfaction" and I don't stop until I get it. |
Posted on 30/11/25 11:50:26 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3411 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
I thought that I was finished for this week, but the weather cancelled my plans for a photoshoot. As is the norm for me, no intelligence was used in the making of this animation. 
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Posted on 01/12/25 00:30:07 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3411 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
Same, but different. 
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Posted on 03/12/25 04:54:28 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2934 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
http://vimeo.com/1142815539 Wonderful entries everyone. That is a mammoth effort, David. Flawless. I cheated and found an image of the nave (without the cube) on the church's website which was almost a perfect fit.  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 03/12/25 10:04:05 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5921 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1082: Art in the Cathedral
Anna. Not so far from the truth. Sitting here in my home office I can look out on this rather unlovely building. It's the back of a church. 
The front is rather more appropriately styled. 
A night we can see the small round window in the back flashing all kinds of colours .......... because the inside looks like this. 
The church is no longer a church. It's now a Brussels night club called Spirito . Please excuse yet another D. Mac diversion. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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