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Downtown, Lisbon

I had fun working on this photo as it gave me the chance to play with OnOne Perfect Effects and dealing with all the ghosting in Photomatix. When I dealt with the ghosting in Photomatix, the result was that the cobblestones around the poeple would pretty much disappear. I dealt with them in Phtotoshop. Used …

I had fun working on this photo as it gave me the chance to play with OnOne Perfect Effects and dealing with all the ghosting in Photomatix. When I dealt with the ghosting in Photomatix, the result was that the cobblestones around the poeple would pretty much disappear. I dealt with them in Phtotoshop. Used Topaz Remask to mask the people, just drawing an outline around them, then added them as a selection, inverted them so that all but the people were selected, and then clonned the neighboring cobblestones. There as also a LOT of fringing, and PS was not able to remove them automatically, so I cloned around the worst one. Blended the sky from the darkest shot, added a blue filter and then appplied a preset in OnOne Perfect Effects. I am pretty happy with the results.