View attachment 26351 Hi all ive got a few photos that i would like to edit in elements 11 if possible but they seem to have some lens flare or dirt of some kind on the image itself, i was wondering if it would be possible to remove it without destroying the picture or stopping me from being able to have the image printed A3. the picture was taken in RAW which im lead to believe is better for editing. Any help will be greatly recieved. cheers
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Here. This took me about 1 minute in Elements 11. Far from perfect or even good but with a wee bit more time and effort, well you get the idea.
Golf-1 by Brashman 201, on Flickr
Golf-1 by Brashman 201, on Flickr
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Yeh.
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Aye, lens flare. It's a common issue when shooting into light. Dirt on the sensor or lens shows up a dark mark/dot/smudge in the pic.
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Bmwjc, I did it in a similar but different way to BRASH’s excellent cloned edit.
I haven’t worked with Elements but I would think it’s similar to PS.
Open the image in your Raw converter and develop to your liking, or just hit auto.
Open in Elements,
Copy layer.
Zoom in 300%
Using the polygonal lasso, making tiny increments select the main flare, excluding that on the shadow.
With the patch tool selected, set to source/destination and content-aware then move the selection over nearby grass and let go.
Tidy up with the spot healing brush.
Still zoomed in, now at 500%
With the clone tool selected and set to 75% opacity select a source from within the shadow and paint over the flare that’s on the shadow, keeping the shape of the peak of the cap and the shoulder.
Do the same with the flare on the trousers.
The flare on the shirt, make a new layer.
Change the foreground colour to that of a clean area of the shirt, with a soft round brush selected, the blending mode of the brush set to lighter colour and the opacity at 75% paint over the shirt area in the new layer, when the discolouring is covered drop the opacity of the layer to 50%.
With the burn tool set to mid tones and 60% opacity burn the shadow of the club shaft.
Flatten the layers.
Done.
Rhodese.
I haven’t worked with Elements but I would think it’s similar to PS.
Open the image in your Raw converter and develop to your liking, or just hit auto.
Open in Elements,
Copy layer.
Zoom in 300%
Using the polygonal lasso, making tiny increments select the main flare, excluding that on the shadow.
With the patch tool selected, set to source/destination and content-aware then move the selection over nearby grass and let go.
Tidy up with the spot healing brush.
Still zoomed in, now at 500%
With the clone tool selected and set to 75% opacity select a source from within the shadow and paint over the flare that’s on the shadow, keeping the shape of the peak of the cap and the shoulder.
Do the same with the flare on the trousers.
The flare on the shirt, make a new layer.
Change the foreground colour to that of a clean area of the shirt, with a soft round brush selected, the blending mode of the brush set to lighter colour and the opacity at 75% paint over the shirt area in the new layer, when the discolouring is covered drop the opacity of the layer to 50%.
With the burn tool set to mid tones and 60% opacity burn the shadow of the club shaft.
Flatten the layers.
Done.
Rhodese.
Thank you very much Rhodese that's a great edit. I will have a go myself but I think I will be taking your effort for my print. I have a few more so I will employ your technique for those.
Thank you both for taking the time to help me, it's very very much appreciated.
Thank you both for taking the time to help me, it's very very much appreciated.