my first attempt & piecing 2 images together- i've been staring at this too long & have gone thru a bunch of adjustments to try & get the colors to match up, i give up...how do you do it? pay no attention to cropping or blending just yet... thanks

word of advice: The Cloning Brush is your best friend here. Use a hard clone brush, and swivel back and forth between the two. Also, make sure to clone from many different areas of the image, cuz even if you do use the clone tool, if you only use it near the seam itself, it'll still be really visible that the images were "glued" together if you don't. also... the three sheds... two of them are a lot "bluer" then the other (the ones on the right). Might wanna tweak them colours a little more...

but how should i go about "tweaking the colors"? that seems to be the problem not sure which color elements to adjust- one either comes out too blue or yellow, then the snow & sky are off, see the snow & grass in the back? the grass on the left is yellow, the other orange?...very frustrating, i'm backing off of it for now...haven't even gotten to the cloning part yet :(

those aren't even the originals- here they are so you can see the original colors- i was concentrating on getting the sky to match first- the one on the right was a bit green these are left over from my older automatic camera & were sent out to be processed

while getting the colours to match, if you're having problems because you can get one set to match but not the other on the same pic (like sky vs. sheds), look into try the history brush. -right below the regular brush, has a little swirl on it- what this'll do is paint what was 'once there', by selecting which step in the files history to paint from. If you can get one set of colours right once, and then get the other set right on the second try, select the older state in the history (there's a little empty icon next to each state), and "paint" over the area that you want to revert backwards... sounds complicated, but its an incredible tool. and if that isn't the case, well, heh, I dunno, just takin a guess is all. also, use all the tools if you aren't meaning the colour balance, curves, contrast, levels and saturation, all found in image-> adjust.

thanks slynky- i'll try the history brush- these 2 are just hard to match in color- i did try balance, curves, contrast, levels & satuation till i was blue in the face- i just thought it would be easier then this.....stumped

Hoping you don't mind but I gave it a shot. I saved screen captures if this is getting close to what you're looking for. After adjusting levels for blue on the right side I then adjusted blue for the left. Then I adjsuted the hue/saturation for the left side, then adjusted the color balance for the left side for the shadows, then the highlights and finishing with the midtones. Then I tweaked the levels a hair for the right side trying to get them a bit closer. Then to finish I took a soft airbrush eraser taking some off the left side till I thought it matched up pretty decently. Hope this helps. :) Doug

Wow..this is a really tough one because of the intensity of the sun in each (the yellowish hue in the left against the more bluish-green right). I pulled them onto seperate layers, color corrected each and tried to match them as close as I could by eye. Then I gave a little burst of yellowish color to the right side image. Finally flattened image and then did one more color correction to try to get snow a bit brighter. Then duplicated layer, inverted it and set blending to overlay, gaussian blurred with about 93 and played with opacity to pull out the blue in the sky a bit and punch up the shadow areas. Then selectively erased parts of the top layer for effect and then flattened. Still not perfect..toughest thing are the differences in the building lighting/colors. Did any of that make any sense? -=>Donald

thanks for giving this a stab! & your suggestions! I'm happy to see it's do-able i'm going to save your responses to my notepad so i can try your steps myself- both of you did an excellent job! hmmmm still so much to learn Thanks again Doug & Donald!!!

Wow...I'm looking at the buildings in the one I did..I don't remember it being that dark when I did this last night. Think I need to recal my monitor or something (or is it time for that 42" plasma monitor? heheh). That's just weird. -=>Donald