Removing tourists from photos

[bradleyvdw50]

Hi

I remember reading awhile ago about some technique in photoshop to merge multiple images together (taken on a tripod) and removing people in the shot. I know it can be done manually but I'm sure there was a faster, more automated way to do it. Anyone able to put me on the right track?

 

[Bazza]

If you have Potatoshop, I think the easiest way to do this is to stack all the images on top of one another and then use layer mask to keep/remove the parts you need.

I haven't done it myself but that's the way I'd do it, someone might be along shortly with a better answer

 

[Deleted sulking member 63079]

Hi

I remember reading awhile ago about some technique in photoshop to merge multiple images together (taken on a tripod) and removing people in the shot. I know it can be done manually but I'm sure there was a faster, more automated way to do it. Anyone able to put me on the right track?

File - Scripts - Stack. Median blend mode. I think, not in front of my computer so can't double check.

 

[st599]

Hi

I remember reading awhile ago about some technique in photoshop to merge multiple images together (taken on a tripod) and removing people in the shot. I know it can be done manually but I'm sure there was a faster, more automated way to do it. Anyone able to put me on the right track?

You want to a) align the images, and b) take the median value for each RGB component of each aligned pixel.

https://github.com/st599/photo_scripts/blob/master/scripts/median_filter.sh

There should be some software out there that does this if you can't use the script.

 

[juggler]

As others have said - use image statistics | median. Here's a tutorial:
https://phlearn.com/automatically-remove-objects-photos-photoshop