Fun with Photoshop
Golden Eagle and Red River Gorge by Jim Crotty
Originally uploaded by jimcrotty.com.
Sometimes I like to try-out third party imaging services as well as new techniques in Photoshop. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a company in the Netherlands called easyclipping.com. They offered to clip one of my digital images, free of charge, to see if I liked their work. Basically I uploaded one of my high resolution JPEG’s and they separated the subject from the background, returning to me a PSD file, ready to be placed on a different background of my choosing.
The image I sent them was one of my favorite Golden Eagle images. Here he has some rat blood on his beak after enjoying a mid-morning snack. I tried several landscape images, all of which I applied a Gaussian Blur so as to give more of sense of distance between the digitally-placed subject and the backkground. The three that I thought worked best were background images from Red River Gorge, Kentucky (above), Glacier National Park and of course, Rose Lake in Hocking Hills, Ohio. Let me know what you think.
