Photo Improvement

canon400dcanon400d Banned Posts: 2,826 Major grins
edited August 3, 2008 in Finishing School
I have been trying to get rid of all the background distractions in photo(a). I have been left with a large blemish over the right shoulder and a smaller one over the left shoulder as you will see in photo(b) I have tried and better tried to get rid of these using the tools I am familiar with ie; Spot healing brush, Patch tool, Clone stamp tool and also layering with Gaussian blur and also surface blur. If it is possible to remove these blemishes I would appreciate any help and advice as to which tool to use and its technique.
Regards
Bob

Photo(a)
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Photo(b)
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Comments

  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    Personally I see nothing wrong with the final product.....but if you are not satisfied then maybe you should add some blk to the light spots or mask you subject and do a total blk background around the subject.
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  • canon400dcanon400d Banned Posts: 2,826 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    Art Scott wrote:
    Personally I see nothing wrong with the final product.....but if you are not satisfied then maybe you should add some blk to the light spots or mask you subject and do a total blk background around the subject.

    Thanks for replying Art, can you please tell me how I go about making a total black background? I use CS3
    Regards
    Bob
  • pyrtekpyrtek Registered Users Posts: 539 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    If all you want is to make the background black, why not just...wait for it...
    paint it black? :) That's what I did here:

    p695787219.jpg
    Bernard
    http://bertold.zenfolio.com
  • canon400dcanon400d Banned Posts: 2,826 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    pyrtek wrote:
    If all you want is to make the background black, why not just...wait for it...
    paint it black? :) That's what I did here:

    p695787219.jpg

    That is excellent. How did you do that?
    Regards
    Bob
  • pyrtekpyrtek Registered Users Posts: 539 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    canon400d wrote:
    That is excellent. How did you do that?

    Like I said, I just painted the background black. I used a soft-edged brush
    on an empty layer. Nothing fancy at all.
    Bernard
    http://bertold.zenfolio.com
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    pyrtek wrote:
    If all you want is to make the background black, why not just...wait for it...
    paint it black? :) That's what I did here:
    Good call, Bernard! thumb.gif
    Prolly the best that can be done here, and simple, too :-) mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • canon400dcanon400d Banned Posts: 2,826 Major grins
    edited August 3, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    Good call, Bernard! thumb.gif
    Prolly the best that can be done here, and simple, too :-) mwink.gif

    Thanks ever so much I have sorted it out. Thanks again for all your patience and kind help.
    Regards
    Bob
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