Can someone Photoshop this for me please?

[disneyfan2]

Can someone direct me to a tutorial on how i can extract someone from a photo and add them into another one? I am learning Photoshop but just getting the basics done so far

 

[Master Mason]

try this one

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/cutout/cutout.htm

 

[disneyfan2]

thank you. the site was a little different the 5.0 version but i was able to do it.

 

[Master Mason]

thank you. the site was a little different the 5.0 version but i was able to do it.

Cool, I just glanced at it, and it seamed pretty close to what kelby wrote in his book I have, I am glad it worked.

 

[annnewjerz]

So I'd like to blow up this photo to hang on one of our walls downstairs and would really like to remove the car from the upper-right corner. I tried last night for about 45 minutes to use the clone stamp, as well as the spot healing brush to remove it and it just didn't look good---I know that if I blew it up you would be able to see the lines where I took the car out.

Is anyone willing to give it a try for me? I'm currently beginning to read The Missing Manual for Photoshop Elements 6, but I still have a long way to go and need a lot of practice in the PP department.

Here is the photo:

If you think you can help...just let me know and I'll send you the original file.

Thanks so much!!
Ann

 

[MICKEY88]

I'd be willing to give it a shot if you want to email me the full size file

 

[jann1033]

if you are using a photoshop type software i think by far the easiest way is to use the marquee tool( i set the feather for 10-20 or so dependingon how big the new rectangle will be ) then draw a rectangle at the location where you want the result to look like( here probably to the right of the back of the car) and slightly bigger than the size of the object you want to cover. then hold down alt and the "move" and drag the new copy over the thing you want to hide. sounds lots harder than it is and imo easier than cloning since you have more control. somethings i go back with the stamp tool and just stamp over the "edge" of the new copy in a few places to blur it into the background better
it was in the missing manual for 5 so it probably is for 6 as well since usually my explanations are mud clear

 

[boBQuincy]

Jann is on the right track, cloning is just not enough for this kind of editing. We need to copy a piece of the original image and tweak it to fit. I usually grab a piece, save it to another layer, then transform it, usually with perspective.

This is an example, where I copied a piece of the wall to hide a piece of the thing I was resting the camera on:

If it is done well it is almost impossible to detect. I suppose after this no one will ever trust anything I enter in the contest!

 

[YesDear]

send me the file NAP! NAP =not a problem!

Let us have a fix it contest!!!

 

[ihavewaycutecats]

I could also try if you would like to pm me the picture. That is a very pretty picture by the way.

 

[annnewjerz]

Thanks for all of the replies everyone. Everyone that replied that they would help, I'll be PMing you to get your e-mail addresses since I can't PM the file itself.

Jan---you're right, clear as mud If it's in your Missing Manual, I'm sure it'll be somewhere in mine though.

Bob---you make it look and sound so easy, as always. Great job with that one BTW, you definitely can't tell you did any touching up.

John---I think you should convince Bob to try to fix it also and we can have a Nikon v. Canon post-processing war.

 

[boBQuincy]

John---I think you should convince Bob to try to fix it also and we can have a Nikon v. Canon post-processing war.

It would be a Mac vs PC war, and the PC would win!

One potential issue is image size, you want to keep it full size for the best print but as an example my final psd France image is about 240MB! That's a lot to email!

 

[YesDear]

I guess Bob is already trying to set limitations on his ability to do what you want!!!!!! Huh Bob???

 

[annnewjerz]

I guess Bob is already trying to set limitations on his ability to do what you want!!!!!! Huh Bob???

Those are fightin words!!

 

[boBQuincy]

I guess Bob is already trying to set limitations on his ability to do what you want!!!!!! Huh Bob???

Limitations? What are those?

 

[NateNLogansDad]

It would be a Mac vs PC war, and the PC would win!

One potential issue is image size, you want to keep it full size for the best print but as an example my final psd France image is about 240MB! That's a lot to email!

MAC? Do people still use those?

 

[surfergirl602]

I haven't used my CS3 in a really long time - and for the life of me, I can't remember the steps to change the opacity of my picture! I am trying to make my autograph books and want a picture of mickey balloons in the background. I open up my picture - it says "background" in the layers tap. If I change it to a layer and change the opacity, the little black and white dots show up and my picture disappears. How the heck do I just lighten the picture to use as a background? I cant seem to figure it out! If I duplicate the layer, and then change the opacity, nothing happens. Ugh.... I just can't think today!

 

[boBQuincy]

You are on the right track! Open the file then double click the layer to make it layer 0. This makes the opacity box appear. Set it to about 50% and the gray dots appear, don't worry about them (they can be turned off in the preferences but they will not appear in the final image). Save the image and open it in your favorite viewer, you now have a low opacity image.

When we have more than one layer the lowest one takes precedence. When you changed the opacity of the higher one it didn't show up since the background layer was still there.

Have fun!

 

[surfergirl602]

You are on the right track! Open the file then double click the layer to make it layer 0. This makes the opacity box appear. Set it to about 50% and the gray dots appear, don't worry about them (they can be turned off in the preferences but they will not appear in the final image). Save the image and open it in your favorite viewer, you now have a low opacity image.

When we have more than one layer the lowest one takes precedence. When you changed the opacity of the higher one it didn't show up since the background layer was still there.

Have fun!

Thanks!!! I usually used Elements and those pesky dots never showed up on that, so I had no clue what it was! I certainly didn't want those in my pics! lol

 

[marcus.ka]

I don't have Photoshop and usually I don't have the need to use it or to learn it. But during our last trip in September 2010 I took these two pictures but I forgot that our rental car had an antenna.

If someone would be so nice to work on these two pictures please send me your E-Mail adresse and then I can send you the pictures in its original size.

Thank you sooo much.