...and sue you for uncompensated use. hahaha

Kidding, that's a breathtaking image. I'm glad you were able to salvage it. I'd like the see the before pic.

I personally avoid AI.

Here is a nasty shadow, thanks to the late sun.



I took it out with GIMP, the free and open source image editor available on all major platforms.



Just to show that free software can do a fine job. These are 1mb. images shrunk for emailing. And my second try with GIMP's healing tool.

Again, a fine photo and recovery. I just wanted to put in a plug for "old style" free software.

And show off.

Are you sure Gimp wasn't using a little AI to perform the healing? 😉

(Just kidding).

But the interface drives me nuts at times. Version 3 release is almost here (3.0RC3).

I need to be much smarter with layers etc.

The toolbox keeps getting buried under other windows.

I find a way.

It's breathtaking!

I think I see an irregular bluish blob over the rear peak. Maybe that's it?

Notice that big ugly blob in the lower right along the canyon floor? I have no idea how that got there, but this was a long time ago and I was new to HDR processing. I guess I got a little overzealous

I put the file into Photoshop and asked it to recreate the canyon floor using generative fill AI. It also added a small rock outcropping below the canyon rim.

I used to do it by hand, a little artistry like painting using the clone stamp tool mostly, some taking an hour or more to perfect, now 30 seconds and boom.

I was never an expert with the clone tool, or any of the other tools to be honest. I've been trying to fix this image for years. Now I can print it out and hang it on my wall.

It started snowing about the time I took this photo. I drove from the Grand Canyon back to Sedona in a blizzard. Fortunately, having grown up in Wisconsin, driving in a blizzard wasn't that big of a deal. However, my wife and kids were all born in California and had never seen anything like it. I earned some serious dad points that day. LOL!