Help - what's the best route for removing sauce from a face

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Hi,

Mucking about with the camera a few weeks ago and the kids managed to do a lovely and unexpected pose in some lovely light - but we were only mucking about after lunch so their faces were plastered with sauce - and what do you know we got a really good keeper (IMHO :naughty:), if only it wasn't for the sauce.

Question: What's the best way of removing the sauces/food (and crusty nose!) in photoshop without destroying to much detail. Patch tool / healing brush combo seems to be leaving a lot of "mottling"

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Thoughts appreciated
 
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scott - you are one tp far to early :)

how do you mean - is it an option with the patch tool (I'm on CS5 and haven't used CA yet)
 
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scott - you are one tp far to early :)

how do you mean - is it an option with the patch tool (I'm on CS5 and haven't used CA yet)
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Sorry, I'm on the train atm (and haven't used the feature in a while) but if you look it up on YouTube, there's plenty of guides.

When you do used it, I'd suggest using it in very small amounts loads of times rather than using it the once on a large area.
 
Whatever you decide is the best tool for you I would advise keeping the opacity down to around 50% otherwise whatever you use is to harsh on the picture.
 
thanks all for your words of wisdom - I think you've probably saved me 3hrs of trial and error - thanks for stealing back a bit of my weekend - I'll post the results on sunday hopefully
 
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I used the healing brush tool, set soft, 100 flow & opacity
Then to remove some faint yellow staining a quick curve (just used lasso tool to draw a quick selection, feather at 20px) and uped the blue curve cple of notches
Only a quick 2 min job as ever more time = better results eg under lip needs doing skin tones could do with evening out left hand side of mouth etc etc
Bogies still need doing ;) but thats kids :)

If you wanted to take even more time you could do a frequency split, but thats prob a bit overkill for this task :)
 
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Shaun, very good way of putting across the method. I wish more suggestions took the raw photo & edited it with an explanation of what was done. Easiest way of learning.
 
you truly are the image magicians - and Shaun beautifully demonstrated that there is hope for the image yet - and thanks for taking the time to do - amazing
 
There must be hundreds of parents that suffer this problem! Brilliant guide I'm going to work through the hard drive right now. This is a great tutorial thanks
 
there is one other Moral to the story - if you've got time to get your camera out - you've probably got time to get a baby wipe and wipe the muck and bogeys away - in case you get the shot you really wanted
 
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there is one other Moral to the story - if you've got time to get your camera out - you've probably got time to get a baby wipe and wipe the muck and bogeys away - in case you get the shot you really wanted
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I only clicked on this thread to see if anyone had suggested wet wipes or not yet :)
 
i think it's allowed when it's the fool who forgot them that suggests it! :)
 
sheridant said:
there is one other Moral to the story - if you've got time to get your camera out - you've probably got time to get a baby wipe and wipe the muck and bogeys away - in case you get the shot you really wanted
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There is also another moral. If you have time to get your camera out make sure you get both subjects in focus ;) Sorry to put a damper on things but you did say this was a keeper in your honest opinion. It did have potential but it is making me go boss eyed looking at it :shrug:
 
harsh - but fair -was playing with very large apertures to blow out the background - this is 1.6 @ 85mm so pretty aggressive - intention wasn't to get a great shot - but if you look beyond the blur the warmth and closeness is there - and that's what my wife wanted

can't have it all
 
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