Need Help Please

Seneca

Ok in this picture that I took last Saturday...I thought it would be somewhat cute to show the sandbox to the right of this picture...ok so I was wrong ...it's distracting. :cry

My solution of course is Adobe Photoshop (version 7.0)...my problem is...I only know Photoshop to a degree of :scratch ...ok...not much : . If someone ...pretty please:help ...in laymon terms tell me how to add grass to that area without it looking like I doctored it up too much...I would be grateful. Please pleaes please someone out there.



Seneca

MelP

I agree the sandbox is distracting. Here is my attempt at it (a very quick attempt). The border was a little difficult to get around.



Mel

Phyxius

Yeah, if you have the original without the border it'd be easier to fix. Easy way is to use the "clone" stamp in Photoshop. You would choose clone and then alt+click the grass you want to copy and then go over and paint over the sandbox with the cloned grass.

(Which is what MelP did.)

kygarden

Playing around with Clone tool in GIMP...

Of course the border was an issue for me too - as far as being able to have enough space to clone out everyting and still have enough open space around the subjects.

Fortunately, grass is easy to clone...so it won't look all that unusual. Just try to keep the variations in the color correct. Like in the background the grass has a lighter color so I used the lighter color grass to clone the areas farther back in the right rear of the photo.

Found a clone tool tutorial link (for photoshop).=: http://iit.bloomu.edu/vthc/Photoshop/enhancing/cloningstamp.htm

Seneca

Mel & KY...thank you sooooooooooooo much....

Ok so it's clone tool. I still have the original picture in my camera so I'll just reload it. I can't thank ya'll enough.

Take care,

Seneca

ziggy53

Seneca,

I hope I understand your request, you want to "create" an iiusion of continuous background, to cover a distracting element, similar to what MelP did.

If that's the case, PS7 has two tools which are particularly useful, the "Healing Brush Tool" and the "Clone Stamp Tool".

I suggest you use the Clone Stamp, to create a "bed" of similar material, using elements of surrounding background, and to create "detail" that closely matches the surrounding background.

Select the Clone Stamp (looks like a "rubber stamp"),



Now set the properties of the tool; the Brush size and type (start with a round brush, maybe 25-50 pixels), the Mode (I suggest leaving that as "Normal"), Opacity and Flow (I suggest Opacity of 30% and Flow of 25% to start), and then Aligned should be left checked and Use All Layers should be unchecked. After a while, you should play with these different settings, but for now, this should give pretty good results.

For Windows, hold down the "Alt" key and select an area to copy by left-mouse-clicking on an area to use as the "from". (Option-click on a Mac) Let up from the keyboard and left-mouse-click on an area to copy "to". Notice how the "from" image is stamped onto the "to" area.

Now, hold down the mouse button while you draw and move around on the image. The "to" areas are gradually being transformed from what they were into more like the "from" area, a process of "cloning".

(If you make a mistake, ctrl-V takes away the last action, and ctrl-alt-Z steps backward many times.)

Keep adding parts of the "from" areas, reselecting with the Alt (Opt) key as necessary. Note that sometimes you should copy from areas to the left, and sometimes from areas under the "to" area.

Step and repeat until you achieve an almost perfect blending. (Not that this is.)

ziggy53

Seneca

Ziggy...
Ohhh my gosh...thank yo so much for laying out all the information in such an easy to read and follow instructions.

I've printed out your instructions and will follow them careful. Thank you thank you thank you so very much.

My best,
Seneca