Photo editing?

[Pembo]

I'm a beginner photographer with a superzoom Nikon. I've been using picasa to edit my pictures but I want to be able to "edit out" people in the background. For example, tonight I took a great picture of my boys in their band uniforms but there are other band kids in the background that I can't crop out.

Help please....

 

[Shutterbug]

You can download a free trial of Photoshop Elements.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=en_us

I think there is a short cut procedures for editing out people from photos.
What I have done in instances like that is to blur out the background.

 

[photo_chick]

Photoshop Elements will let you clone things out. It isn't automated at all in Elements (it can be somewhat automated in Photoshop CS5 and CS6), but cloning out a small area is relatively easy. A large area, well it depends on what is in the background.

Download the trial like suggested, it's a full version of Elements that will work for 30 days. Then google clone stamp tutorials.