mum2gnt
05-05-2011, 09:20 AM
GETTING RID OF UNWANTED THINGS IN PHOTOS:
So you have that perfect photo but there’s a spot or there’s food around your toddler’s mouth – or in my case there are Transformer tattoos on Thomas’ arm!
There are various ways of deleting them. If it is just a tiny spot then your best bet is the Spot Healing Brush tool but if it’s something larger then you may need everything Photoshop has!!!!!!
Here’s my original photo:
http://i55.tinypic.com/ap8aba.jpg
Ugh! Don’t you just hate tattoos!
With just your photo open, copy it by doing Control/Command J to make a copy on a new layer.
After zooming in (remember you can hold the space bar and drag the image or use the navigation palette’s red square and move that), you’ll need to find something that is similar in colour and shade to what you want to cover with. I chose an area just above Bumblebee (yellow) tattoo.
Because it is a large area and not just a weeny winy spot (just my luck!) it’s probably best to use the PATCH TOOL. This is found under your band aid in the tools palette and looks like a little patch.
http://i52.tinypic.com/2607gae.jpg
Now I can draw a “patch” on the clean area and move it over Bumblebee. Once I drop it onto Bumblebee you’ll see it blends with the surrounding area:
http://i54.tinypic.com/wqzq86.jpg
Once all the large areas are covered – and you may have to do this a few times as it blends in – you can switch to a smaller area tool. It depends on what you want to do: the HEALING BRUSH tool (also under the band aid tool) Works very similarly with the Patch tool. You just alt click on an area you want to copy and go back to your tattoos and just keep brushing over the desired area. Just keep alt clicking as you go if you need to.
The SPOT HEALING BRUSH is great for spots as it just mimics the area surrounding the brush and blends it in. I use this for all spots and little things.
The other fabulous tool is the CLONE TOOL. (Looks like a person in the tools palette) You alt click on an area and then click on the area you want to copy and it copies it exactly – so no blending here (although you can use your opacity here to sort of make it blend).
So, back to my tattoos and I really need to use the clone tool as it’s hard to stop the healing brushes blending the colours plus I am close to the edge of his arm. I am going to be quite the little clever clogs here and clone /copy an area and then use the healing brushes to blend it in. Remember to change your brush size/blur and opacity as required.
Here’s my cloned area which now needs blending with the healing brush tool:
http://i56.tinypic.com/126bqdk.jpg
And now ………………….drumroll……………………here is the finished photo – not too perfect but the tattoos are gone! (and good riddance!!)
http://i53.tinypic.com/2zgdna9.jpg
Oh and one more tip - you can use all these brushes on unwanted backgrounds and make them blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
That done now, I think I need to work on shrinking those feet! How big are they!
So you have that perfect photo but there’s a spot or there’s food around your toddler’s mouth – or in my case there are Transformer tattoos on Thomas’ arm!
There are various ways of deleting them. If it is just a tiny spot then your best bet is the Spot Healing Brush tool but if it’s something larger then you may need everything Photoshop has!!!!!!
Here’s my original photo:
http://i55.tinypic.com/ap8aba.jpg
Ugh! Don’t you just hate tattoos!
With just your photo open, copy it by doing Control/Command J to make a copy on a new layer.
After zooming in (remember you can hold the space bar and drag the image or use the navigation palette’s red square and move that), you’ll need to find something that is similar in colour and shade to what you want to cover with. I chose an area just above Bumblebee (yellow) tattoo.
Because it is a large area and not just a weeny winy spot (just my luck!) it’s probably best to use the PATCH TOOL. This is found under your band aid in the tools palette and looks like a little patch.
http://i52.tinypic.com/2607gae.jpg
Now I can draw a “patch” on the clean area and move it over Bumblebee. Once I drop it onto Bumblebee you’ll see it blends with the surrounding area:
http://i54.tinypic.com/wqzq86.jpg
Once all the large areas are covered – and you may have to do this a few times as it blends in – you can switch to a smaller area tool. It depends on what you want to do: the HEALING BRUSH tool (also under the band aid tool) Works very similarly with the Patch tool. You just alt click on an area you want to copy and go back to your tattoos and just keep brushing over the desired area. Just keep alt clicking as you go if you need to.
The SPOT HEALING BRUSH is great for spots as it just mimics the area surrounding the brush and blends it in. I use this for all spots and little things.
The other fabulous tool is the CLONE TOOL. (Looks like a person in the tools palette) You alt click on an area and then click on the area you want to copy and it copies it exactly – so no blending here (although you can use your opacity here to sort of make it blend).
So, back to my tattoos and I really need to use the clone tool as it’s hard to stop the healing brushes blending the colours plus I am close to the edge of his arm. I am going to be quite the little clever clogs here and clone /copy an area and then use the healing brushes to blend it in. Remember to change your brush size/blur and opacity as required.
Here’s my cloned area which now needs blending with the healing brush tool:
http://i56.tinypic.com/126bqdk.jpg
And now ………………….drumroll……………………here is the finished photo – not too perfect but the tattoos are gone! (and good riddance!!)
http://i53.tinypic.com/2zgdna9.jpg
Oh and one more tip - you can use all these brushes on unwanted backgrounds and make them blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
That done now, I think I need to work on shrinking those feet! How big are they!