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Hi All...

I wonder if any of you might be able to assist with a preferred solution to fixing a background (the left hand side with the stand in view etc) shot like the one below. I only have lightroom to play with and it never really looks any good...

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I know its not the best of shots, but it captured the girls having a moment

cheers

Dan.
 
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Not the easiest due to the background not being evenly lit. If you wanted to keep all four girls in then i would suggest cropping a lot closer then you only have to deal with the top half of the left hand side using the clone tool. You could only include girls 2, 3 &4, thus getting rid of the need to mess about with removing the stand? Here's a rapid quick edit:

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Personally I'd send it straight off to retouchup.com - as the original colour file and without the crop.

Of course *someone* will be around to tell you as a pro that you should be doing it all yourself but that edge has a lot of hair to cope with as you expand the background and for $5-10 you can get someone else to deal with it.

I'd also take the opportunity to get it straightened, the background and foreground evened out and lose the ripples as well as give you some space on the LHS - if you wanted to crop that to a traditional print size (7x5 or 8x10 - or the larger sizes with same crops) then you will struggle unless you do.

Should all be one fee if you ask for it at the same time.
 
My two pennies worth.
Select the girls and table with quick select; refine edge, output as selection.
Copy and paste the selection into new layer.
Create new layer (800pixels by 400 pixels) fill it with a mid tone colour from original background.
Drag the girl layer onto the new layer then rotate to square.
Add a mask and tidy up the selection.
Flatten and crop.
Clone the hair on the girl on the left to get rid of the dark patches.
Create a new layer, fill with 50% grey, and change the blend to soft light.
With the foreground set to black and the background set to white use a soft brush set to very low values paint white onto the darker parts of the table and the girls hair, faces and necks.
Using black, paint on to the highlights on the girl’s skin.
Flatten.
Select all and make a boarder using stroke. Deselect.
Save.

PS, the new layer size when using the original should be the same as the original.

TP-GIRLS-WEB.jpg


Rhodese.
 
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That looks a cool edit to me. Looks fab. Well done.

Gaz
 
Wow that's a great edit, there are some very small issues regarding the girls hair on the left but if you didn't know I doubt you would notice. With what you had you have done very well.

Steve
 
Good edit Rhodese :thumbs:
 
Rhodese said:
My two pennies worth.
Select the girls and table with quick select; refine edge, output as selection.
Copy and paste the selection into new layer.
Create new layer (800pixels by 400 pixels) fill it with a mid tone colour from original background.
Drag the girl layer onto the new layer then rotate to square.
Add a mask and tidy up the selection.
Flatten and crop.
Clone the hair on the girl on the left to get rid of the dark patches.
Create a new layer, fill with 50% grey, and change the blend to soft light.
With the foreground set to black and the background set to white use a soft brush set to very low values paint white onto the darker parts of the table and the girls hair, faces and necks.
Using black, paint on to the highlights on the girl’s skin.
Flatten.
Select all and make a boarder using stroke. Deselect.
Save.

PS, the new layer size when using the original should be the same as the original.


Rhodese.
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Wow.....now that's an edit/fix. Many thank Rhodese :thumbs:
 
Good one Rhodese

H
 
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