what to do with a wrinkley background

joshhuntnm

Had some friends over to take a few pics. didn't realize the background so wrinkley. Here are a few attempts to fix it. I thought this was fun. The first is the untouched version, then several approaches. I am aware of other problems with these photos--hair light too hot, bad expressions, etc. I am still new enough to photoshop to be amazed by it. CC welcome.

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Icebear

Being the conservative, unimaginative old curmudgeon I am, I like #4.

lisap

This reminds me of the couple of hours of ironing/steaming I had to do on my first background I got about a month ago....oh my tired arms!!

I tend to like #4 best as well and then #6 except that 6 has a kind of halo type thing going on. (sorry, I'm new to photoshopping as well and I really don't know the proper terms)

Between #3 and #5 I prefer #5 with the smaller squares. Even though there are more squares because they are smaller, I find it to be not quite so busy as #3.

#7's kinda too funky for me but I do like their expressions

#8 - the outline around them is too strong for my liking, but that's just me.

Thanks for sharing because now I know it's possible to salvage wrinkley backgrounds!! )

-- Lisa P.

darkdragon

next time you shoot, just move the subjects farther away from the background - that will keep the wrinkles and the shadows out of your image.

I also like the plain gradiant background the best out of these images.


Another thing you might want to try on the background to save it is to just apply a strong guassian blur to it, that should clean it right up.

NateWagner

well, I think the most currently usable shot is the plain gradient background. My favorite background that you did was #6, but as was previously said the people seemed to have a halo around them. I think if you were to work a bit more with that one to keep the halo out it would be the best shot.

Nate

beetle8

I like #2 I mean as you mentioned you know what wrong with them. I think that's my favorite attempt. Although the gradient is technically better

macmac

I like #4 and #5. I like these because of the backgrounds and the fact that here are no shadows.

joshhuntnm

darkdragon wrote:

next time you shoot, just move the subjects farther away from the background - that will keep the wrinkles and the shadows out of your image.

I also like the plain gradiant background the best out of these images.


Another thing you might want to try on the background to save it is to just apply a strong guassian blur to it, that should clean it right up.

Yeah, for the main shoot that day (the man's step daughter) I did that. I just was in a hurry for these shots. I did the gussian blur on one of the backgrounds.

evoryware

#4 w/o a doubt.

darkdragon

joshhuntnm wrote:

Yeah, for the main shoot that day (the man's step daughter) I did that. I just was in a hurry for these shots. I did the gussian blur on one of the backgrounds.

I saw that, #6 right? The only problem with that one is the blooming glow around the people. To use GB on a background you really need to extract the forground then use the clone tool to remove get rid of the forground elements from the bakground layer. Then blur. Doing it that way will give you a nice clean foreground with no blooming and a nice smooth background.