Do you remember this photo that I posted a while back in my "Editing Process" post? At the time I said I wasn't yet skilled enough with Photoshop to be able to sort it out. Well, it turned out that do know enough, and that I just hadn't devoted sufficient time to it. The below took me absolutely ages, and still requires a little more work on the tail, but I am pretty pleased so far. Obviously I'd have preferred to have taken the clean shot, and always strive to do so, not least because I'd rather be in the field that at my desk, but it shows what is possible these days.

I use the venerable Adobe Photoshop CS2 package, which is now available for free I believe. I use a tiny tiny fraction of its functionality, but it is the most amazing program, and I do not see the need to swap to a newer version that costs many hundreds of pounds. It does everything I could possibly want, which for most images, isn't a great deal. The example below is extreme in nature, but from a free software package, wow!