Re: Image Editing & Enhancement
Do you have a higher-resolution version of the picture? Even if it's just the original (the piggy bank in the grass without all of the cloned content to the left). Adding the sun without modifying the shadows on the bank will look weird (the light will be coming from the wrong direction), and it's hard to modify the shadows on a small image like that and make it look clean. (Blowing it up and reducing later will damage the picture detail.) And trust me, it would look better if the grass in the empty area were cloned in a less obvious way. The sky should probably be knocked out as well and replaced with a more natural gradient centered on the image (the sky's real colour is a subtle radial gradient that is brightest at the horizon and centered in the field of vision -- the cloned/extended version looks unnatural).
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