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This takes a little explaining. These three images were used on billboards. The files were giant. This image required a brighter sky, a bluer ocean, a whiter beach, greener grass, oh, and by the way, make it look like it was shot at noon, not in the afternoon. Right. About 16 mask layers later, I did it. Turns out I really CAN fix reality. This image required pretty major stretching, a brighter sky, oh, and make it look like our houses sit on 180 acres of pristine, isolated beachfront. This one was my waterloo. It was just a simple sky replacement, but I could never make the trees and sky interact realistically. I've since developed a technique that addresses exactly this problem. No, I'm not going to share it with you.