so new at this

[corralup]

I used the lasso tool and paint bucket to fix the sky. Next I would like to fix the noise in the greens.

My question is which tool to use for the "Noise".
maybe paintbrush?

Thanks for your help---By the way, my name is Sandy--HI!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b381/sandybottom_/3onbranch.jpg?t=1211749206 (javascript:void(0);)

[fogdrip]

corralup -

Great Picture!

I would not profess any expertise, but I'll throw this out.

There is a Noise reducing Filter under Filter>>Noise>> Numerous choices.

You could try that and see what it looks like.

OR

I did a Quick Selection (PSE6) of the birds and trees, Inverted the selection (SHift-Ctrl-I) and added Gaussian Blur to the background (Filter>>Blur>>Gaussian Blur). I thought it looked really good. It blurred out any background imprefections and drew more attention to the subject.

Good luck,

Steve

[JonE]

You can use the noise removal filter
Filter>Noise>Remove Noise
Select only the area you want to reduce noise in, in your case just the green areas, and preferably copy those areas onto a new layer (Control-J) and then apply the filter only to that layer.

But what you want may be to blur the background more rather than reduce noise. See this example where I blurred just the left side of the greenery for comparison (my selection of the greens was a bit incomplete but you'll get the idea):



http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/195ZKcjauO7Jy0N4IHSPD8qzO69EIK_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=195ZKcjauO7Jy0N4IHSPD8qzO69EIK)




To do this, select the area in the same way and preferably put it onto a separate layer unsing Control-J. Then go to Filter>Blue>Gaussian Blur. I set it for 1.0 pixels in this case.

By the way, your work on the sky was incomplete - note areas such as those circled in red where the transition from sky to greenery is rough. I'm not sure why this happened without knowing your steps. However it can likely be fixed using the clone tool and set it down to about 20% strength to clean up the rough spots.

PS: I was working on this response when the other response was posted so sorry about the duplication.

[fogdrip]

PS: I was working on this response when the other response was posted so sorry about the duplication.


Great Minds and all . . . :D

I do think the background blurring method will get the better results.