Need Some Help Please

Keith W

Keith W

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Hi All,

I am hoping that one of you may be able to help me :)

I took some pictures yesterday on my neighbors daughter on her prom evening and I would like to print one out for her.

What I am hoping is that one of you kind people who is good at photoshop can get rid of all crap in the picture such as table, chair, clock, radiator & door and have the young lady just standing against a white background.

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I have a larger version of the picture which can be downloaded here

I don't mind if the picture is cropped but ideally I would like it large enough to print A4 size

I know this is a big ask but if anyone can do it for me I would be extremely grateful and would owe you one.

Thanks in advance.

Take care, Keith
 
Hi Keith
Fairly quick cut out.
Not perfect, maybe the big boys will do a better job but...
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Oh if you think this is OK for you mail me and I'll send the larger file.
 
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Im not sure what to think, but I had a go. Pure white was too harsh to work with so I used a toned background. I left the picture wide so you can decide on a crop if necessary.
 
Hi Guys,

I really appreciate you helping me out.

I was wondering if any of you would mind sharing how you got to the finished pictures?

I ask because I would like to learn how to do this myself, that way I wont have to keep coming on the forum begging favours :D

I have the following software installed on my computer: Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Paint Shop Pro 7 & Lightroom 2.3

Take care, Keith
 
I created a background, positioned this photo on top and used layer masking to remove all of the backdrops in the photo and reveal my background underneath. Its hard to explain, but if you google layer masks/masking you will probably find something useful. Its also worth buying a photography magazine as this is where I have learnt all of my techniques. Digital Photo is a great mag for learning photoshop skills.
 
Hi Keith
I'm using CS3 quick selection tool to grab most then polygonal lasso tool to refine after increasing size to 200%.
Finally a little tidy using clone and eraser tools.

Sometimes it's easier to select B/G with quick selection and then select inverse.
Another tip is to copy copy original layer (In the strong possibility you a*se things up) and lighten or darken to make it easier for quick selection or whatever selection tool you decide to use to work better, and then save selection and use it on the original saved layer.
Hope that makes some sense.
 
Hi Again Keith
Have mailed Photoshop file, but must warn you it's 8.5MB.
 
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If you like this edit, it was processed in CS3.
First it was cropped, with the crop tool set at width 6in height 9in res 300ppi, make a copy layer, apply a layer mask then carefully paint out the background including the bits showing through the hair. Still on top layer open a curves adjustment layer, adjust the levels first by moving the right side pointer in till it meets the histogram, then adjust the curve line to create an S curve pushing the top half up slightly and pulling the bottom down by the same amount, then click back on the image on the same layer zoom in on the face and using the dodge tool and a small soft brush set at 5% build up the whites in the eyes and on the teeth and a little on the hair. On the bottom layer paint over the radiator with the clone tool sampling from along side it on both sides of the image then add a gradient, solid to clear, top to bottom, using a colour from a darker tone in the image background. Make new layer, make an elliptical selection from just above the subjects head down to the same distance up from the bottom of the page as the top of the selection is from the top of the page, centre up and feather by 100px, invert the selection and with the bucket tool fill the selection with black set at 50%, deselect. Now select all and go to edit – stroke and set it to black and 7px and hit OK. Flatten image and save.
 
Maybe just do it right in camera and get better quality picture to start with? I can't see the reason to include that clock and the radiator in the first place!

1) you should really shoot RAW. There is so much CA and lack of sharpness that need to be corrected
2) wideangle lenses are useful elsewhere. For people 50mm is an absolute minimum like this
3) The lens is probably not the sharpest and the focusing is not perfect so f/4 is really not optimal. Maybe f/8 with that lens would be OK?
4) posing and angle and light - I won't even start on this one

If you get this right then there will be very little if any editing needed and you will have much better photo.
 
daugirdas said:
Maybe just do it right in camera and get better quality picture to start with? I can't see the reason to include that clock and the radiator in the first place!

1) you should really shoot RAW. There is so much CA and lack of sharpness that need to be corrected
2) wideangle lenses are useful elsewhere. For people 50mm is an absolute minimum like this
3) The lens is probably not the sharpest and the focusing is not perfect so f/4 is really not optimal. Maybe f/8 with that lens would be OK?
4) posing and angle and light - I won't even start on this one

If you get this right then there will be very little if any editing needed and you will have much better photo.
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That seems a tad harsh! I'm sure if the gentleman could of taken the photo somewhere with perfect lighting and background im sure he would have.
 
Why do you want to clone out the clock, chair and other stuff - it's just dead space doing nothing for the shot anyway? Make it easy for yourself - crop like so...

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This just leaves the radiator to clone out. Use the existing bg colour and you avoid all those cut-out looking problems and having to deal with the stray hair.

Set the colour balance to 6500K which gives better flesh tones and lightens the bg.

I don't think daugirdas meant to be harsh, he makes a petty fair point, a few moments moving furniture out of the way to find a bit of blank wall would have been easy enough to do, but hey.. we've all made these mistakes, the thing is to learn from them, which you tend to do when you've caused yourself a load of work a few times. ;)
 
I don't think your going to get a better edit than what CT has done, no disrespect to the others but i think he has nailed it......so much so that i cant be bothered to try and improve on it my self.....:clap: thats exactly what i would of done...
 
But looking a bit harder i do like the look rockshifter has done methinks it may be a little more fashionable maybe an
 
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