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05/23/2006 10:39:47 AM · #1 |
Can you please try to fix the bg on this and tell me how you did it. I've tried clone stamp, healing, paintbrush...I can't get the colors to even out, I can always see where I fixed the bg, it's never smooth.
Also...is there anything I can do to get rid of those shadows and still make it look natural?
I'm looking for some solid tips here, I rarely ask for help but I've spent over an hour screwing with this image and I'm coming up with nothing.
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05/23/2006 10:43:29 AM · #2 |
p.s. - i tried cropping it out but no standard crop sizes will remove that side without removing the tip of his shoe.
This image needs to be available for print without warping...if i shave off that side of the picture only will the picture stretch when I print it?
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05/23/2006 10:53:11 AM · #3 |
just healing brush |
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05/23/2006 10:54:09 AM · #4 |
Is this something like what you're looking for? |
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05/23/2006 11:00:41 AM · #5 |
so healing brush worked and made it smooth?
Ok...well I ended up cropping just that little part out of the picture. Is the picture going to stretch when i print it now????
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05/23/2006 11:52:36 AM · #6 |
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05/23/2006 12:28:48 PM · #7 |
| Contrast Masking might help you soften the shadows and bring out more detail in the subject. |
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05/23/2006 01:55:42 PM · #8 |
Another option is after adjjusting the levels and shadows to lighten the subject, create a new layer via copy and use the dodge tool, selecting the white part of the background, setting the opacity of the dodge to 30% or so and dodge the heck out of what you don't want. Then in the layer opacity, adjust the blend down, use the erase tool with a sharp-edged brush, zoom way in and erase back along all the edges to bring the detail back in the subject. Invert the image to see if you have missed anything, erase more on missed sections, invert back and re-adjust the layer opacity back to 100% and flatten the image. You can totally isolate your subject from the background and remove everything out if it if you want to.
There are a lot of ways to do it really. |
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05/23/2006 02:06:51 PM · #9 |
This is what I would call an "interim phase", basically a new starting point for your PP. I do this a lot; take a flawed original and produce a "new original" from it that has the values I need so that I can start working on the details efficiently.
I did TWO things to this:
1. I used healing brush in "replace" mode to bring some white over the gap on the left, then switched to "normal" mode with healing brush and painted it smooth. If you try to do it all with "normal" mode, it makes a dark smudge.
2. I used cntrl-alt-tilde (~) to select the bright range and cntrl-j to make a new layer of that selection, then used cntrl-alt-tilde and cntrl-shift-i to invert the selection to a dark range selection, and cntrl-J to load THAT as a new layer. I set layer mode on the dark selection to screen, and on the bright selection to "lighten"...
That's it; a good, clean starting point from which to work on refining the image. Took about a minute to do...
Robt.
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05/23/2006 03:42:19 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by specialk0783:
p.s. - i tried cropping it out but no standard crop sizes will remove that side without removing the tip of his shoe.
This image needs to be available for print without warping...if i shave off that side of the picture only will the picture stretch when I print it? |
It depends how you're printing it - if its just coming out your printer it will print at whatever ratio it's at - regardless of if its a typical aspect ratio or not.
If you're printing through a commercial service, it might be a problem - depends where. Many would require an original file with specified aspect ratio, so you'd have to resize (and hence stretch a little) before uploading.
Alternatively, couldn't you just clone to extend the white background?? The you'd have the crop you wanted in the ratio required
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