
Most of the "distractions" were removed from the image. Several sets of over head wires really cluttered up the scene. They were removed using a couple different techniques. One was the Clone Stamp Tool (S). Anywhere that the wires got close to a defined change in shape or texture is where the Clone Stamp Tool. The preview available in CS5 makes accurate placement of the cloning easy. A good example would be along the roofline of the building .
Another technique was to use the Clone Stamp Tool (S) again along some of the wires and take out sections at a time by laying down a point, going to the other end of a straight line, holding down the Shift Key and clicking at the end of the stretch. Often a little touchup was needed to break up the lines.
Content Aware Fill (Edit/Fill or Shift F5) was used along the wires also. The biggest use of CAF (Content Aware Fill) was taking out a car that was crossing the tracks to the right of the scene. Just using the Loop Tool (L) with no trickery resulted in parts of the engine showing up in the woods. Not good. An easy way to control where CAF uses to make its calculations is to use a Layer Mask. Select (how to make the selection is up to you) anywhere you don't want used. Make it a Layer Mask and then do another selection, with the remaining piece of the image and tell CS5 to do a Content Aware Fill there. Content Aware Fill will only take information from the area it can see. It will not use the area under the Layer Mask. Once the fill is accomplished, discard the Layer Mask and continue working on the iamge as you would normally.
After the image was pretty much maxed out the barrel of the engine looked a little bit (a lot) green. A Black & White Adjustment Layer was added and the accompanying Mask filled with black. That hides whatever the Adjustment Layer was doing. Printing on the Mask with a white Brush (B) made the barrel shades of gray while allowing the rest of the scene to be in color.
The image was Sharpened and a Layer Mask took out the sharpening from the sky. The last step (always the last step) was to apply a vignette to hold the viewers eye into the image.
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