Broad-billed Hummingbird

[Eric Gofreed]

I thought I would show after and before. images.

My workflow starts in Lightroom with "Basic Adjustment." In Photoshop the twigs were painted out with blue. Topaz denoise filter sharpened the image. Then the colors were adjusted in photoshop. And lastly the sky replaced with Photoshop sky replacement. Full time spent processing: maybe 15 minutes

This is the photo before any processing

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very dramatic difference. So you paint out the twigs so that sky replace will have a clear target for the mask?

 

[AlanLichty]

Pretty nice result after the sky replacement.

 

[Trent Watts]

Thanks for describing this very interesting process. It gives a really lovely image.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Very dramatic difference. So you paint out the twigs so that sky replace will have a clear target for the mask?

That's correct.