The clone tool copies the information fropm one place in an image to another. if used carefully and judiciously, you can take out lots of extraneous information. See examples below.
Note the pallets, crane, and mud in the curbed areas. I used a small clone brush (set to about 15 px (hold the alt key -- not sure which one that is in MAC -- while clicking on the area to copy) to cover the pallets and such with bricks or glass. You can click and drag, just like drawing or click, move, click, move. If you have only a small area to clone, then click, move, click works better than click and drag.
Then I added a layer and just painted grass on top of the mud. Then I played with image adjustment and made the picture more saturated and somewhat warmer to look a bit sunny. I also used the magic wand to select the sky, set two colors of blue for foreground and background colors, and used the render clouds filter for the sky. Took about 30 minutes. I'm using Photoshop 7.0, but I think these tools are the same for most versions pertty far back.
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I did a lot of work on that one. For example, the verticals on the building were about 5 degreees off plumb. It was almost gray because it was taken on a hazy day. So I had to straighten it. crop it, and then do the other work on it to get a decent pix for the corporate blog.
I've worked a lot with photoshop to make up for my less than stellar photography.
Really great job!!!!
Just for clarification. you "define" the area to clone by holding the ALT key and clicking, then you release alt, release mouse key (LEFT for PC) and then move to another area to click the mouse and draw from teh cloned area. you have to define first (alt-click) and then release, then click - n - draw.
Priscilla,
The best way to fix eyes and such is to erase them and put something behind them, even if it's just a black spot with a white dot for a highlight. I'm not so good with Elements, because I leaned Photoshop first. But you could just paint over them, maybe?