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Hi
I have a pic of the bride and sticking out of her left side of head behind her is a no smoking sign.

Whats the best way to remove this . I have CS6 ad Lightroom4.

I cant figure out which tool will cut round the sign and fill it with the wall texture / colour from just above the sign

Its all a white wall.

Rgds
 
Can you use the clone tool?
 
tried that, doesnt look great. Its ared and white sign on a white wall. im sure i have seen a lasso tool used to mark out the sign and then drag it to another pat of the wall which replaces the sign with the contents from the other part.....

cant for the life of me work it out
 
It's hard to say without seeing the pic, I would probably select the area and fill or clone but it depends on the pic.
 
gpc1 said:
tried that, doesnt look great. Its ared and white sign on a white wall. im sure i have seen a lasso tool used to mark out the sign and then drag it to another pat of the wall which replaces the sign with the contents from the other part.....

cant for the life of me work it out
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The patch tool, hidden under with the spot healing brush.
 
clone tool does work, i was being stupid!!!
 
so does the patch tool....thanks anyway, next time i will RTFM!!!


rgds
 
actually, it removes the texture a little too....

I will post the pic to show you and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction
 
IMG_5975.jpg


here is one of the images.
Thanks in advance
 
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have you tried content aware fill? - carefully draw round the edges of the sign with the lasso tool, then right click, select fill, select 'content aware' and away you go, see how it manages. you might have to finish it off with the clone tool
 
thnaks Yv

I will give that a go although i think i may have tried athat and a random eyeball appeared in place of the sign...
 
As per email Greg, send over high res JPG and i'll do it for you.
 
Content aware then the clone tool. Bit of a ball ache but should get you out of the hole and teach you to be more careful next time :)
 
haggis said:
Content aware then the clone tool. Bit of a ball ache but should get you out of the hole and teach you to be more careful next time :)
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haha...yep...i swapped them around hoping that the groom, being bigger would cover the sign...but with the poses and the fact they wanted to shoot in the entrance left me little choice.

really annoying, its a lovely venue and all the coupled who get married want a shot at or in the entrance way. Dont know why they dont make the sign removable. It really spoils the look of the entrance not just in images.
 
Tizer said:
As per email Greg, send over high res JPG and i'll do it for you.
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cheers matey, will send it over the weekend. I want to learn the technique so will be intereted in your methods.

Rgds
 
gpc1 said:
thnaks Yv

I will give that a go although i think i may have tried athat and a random eyeball appeared in place of the sign...
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I tried content aware and had the same problem (different image) I followed a tutorial where you use a layer mask to tell it what not to use when replacing the selection for content aware, worked like a charm.
 
Content aware fill? That's a bit of overkill. The wall behind it is flat and featureless and therefore a very easy clone job. The only bit that makes it hard is that her head is against it - and edges like that are exactly where CA fill struggles.

Zoom right in and select the woman's head. Spend enough time on this to get it right. Magnetic lasso or pen tool might work here but so would quick mask with a really small brush.

Invert selection. Feather selection by a couple of pixels. Select clone tool and clone away from the clean area above.

Probably 10 mins work to get right. 10 mins per picture will remind you never to put somebody's head there again ;)
 
Here's how i would do it, its a very quick and dirty technique, took me about a min, though as ever more time on the mask makes for a better result. Its very background dependant but luckily this is the right type of background



1) start
2) Make selection of good wall
3) drag down
4) Mask

Thats it. Very quick and yields good results, (provided its the right type of background).
 
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fantastic guys, will give it a go.

Yes, in future i will be bringing a screwdriver to remove signs....;) or just pose them differently.

I knew it would be a bit of a problem but the trade off was location for editing...

thanks again guys, much appreciated

rgds
 
TheDrift- said:
Here's how i would do it, its a very quick and dirty technique, took me about a min, though as ever more time on the mask makes for a better result. Its very background dependant but luckily this is the right type of background

1) start
2) Make selection of good wall
3) drag down
4) Mask

Thats it. Very quick and yields good results, (provided its the right type of background).
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Exactly what i would have done, 1 minute job, GJ
 
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what tool is it in PS?, i cant work out the tool even reading the manual lol!
 
cs6. think i have cracked it though. I used just a normal rectangle selection, then clicked edit and content aware fill which allowed me to expand the selection. I then used a small hard brush, zoomed in 200% and painted back in her head / hair. If i went to far i just painted back out the sign/red.

I think it looks OK. Zoomed at 80% you cant see any edit / painting / masking.

I couldn't get right up to the edge of the hair so when zoomed at +200% there is still a red outline to a couple of hair areas. They wont be blowing these up big, if they do they will be coming through me to get printed or canvassed so if they choose any of these i may have to refine them a bit more.

Thanks for the help guys, im well practiced in lightroom 4 but cs6 is something i need to improve on. I bought the martin evening manual...700 pages of a new language...wow!!

rgds
 
but what i have notices id that it stretches the texture of the wall, doesnt clone it as such.

only really noticeable at 100% zoom though

rgds
 
Hi Yes its just a normal rectangle selection. It does distort the pixels ( Although TBF you cant really see the texture on the low res sample provided)

From memory I think this method is used here to stretch the bumper across to hide the number plate
http://www.retouchpro.com/index.php?page=rebroadcast

If you dont want the stretched pixels then you will have to look at another solution.

With regards to the red coming through you could do a quick rough selection and just de-saturate reds, this would make it less noticable
 
TheDrift- said:
Here's how i would do it, its a very quick and dirty technique, took me about a min, though as ever more time on the mask makes for a better result. Its very background dependant but luckily this is the right type of background



1) start
2) Make selection of good wall
3) drag down
4) Mask

Thats it. Very quick and yields good results, (provided its the right type of background).
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It works for me. Thanks.
 
Rather than stretch the pixels, just select the region above her head with the rectangular selection tool. Copy selection onto new layer. Move that layer so that it covers the sign (it will also cover her head) and then using layer masks, just paint her face back in -changing the layer opacity to around 30% will help.
 
cheers guys, lots of useful tips and techniques.

To be honest, at the size they will have this at, you cant see any wall texture really. Although, if they enlarge to A3 it may just show.

Will give bens method a go too.
 
I'd also go Ben's route - just copy the section of wall from just above her head, paste it over her head & the sign, then layer mask to draw her head back in.

And then straighten the image ;)
 
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