studio floor mark/dirt pp removal

[elliotedwards]

Hi guys.

This is something that bugs me a lot.

I cant afford to cut the paper every time it gets used, so here I am.

I've got relatively marked/dirty paper floors and its a pain to rid them in ps.

I have tried clone stamp and heal, but it ends up looking too patchy, even when using 0% hardness and a lower flow. How would you go about it?


Additionally when wanting to edit an image in Photoshop, it wont display the image. It only works when I use render in lightroom.

Why is this? It used to work and I've not updated anything.

http://postimg.org/image/ji9rpsfnr/

(No idea why the img tag isn't working)

 

[MWHCVT]

Hi guys.

This is something that bugs me a lot.

I cant afford to cut the paper every time it gets used, so here I am.

I've got relatively marked/dirty paper floors and its a pain to rid them in ps.

I have tried clone stamp and heal, but it ends up looking too patchy, even when using 0% hardness and a lower flow. How would you go about it?

Additionally when wanting to edit an image in Photoshop, it wont display the image. It only works when I use render in lightroom.

Why is this? It used to work and I've not updated anything.

http://postimg.org/image/ji9rpsfnr/

(No idea why the img tag isn't working)

You need the actual image URL rather than the page that the URL of the page the image it's on...as to the removal. I'd be tempted to try a general blurring for that as the level of cloning would be quite extensive...you mention you cannot afford the change to paper per shoot, but in reality how much time are you wasting in PP the could truthfully be used on further shoots, possibly it's time to up your prices a little to ensure you can absorb the paper costs

 

[elliotedwards]

Most of this stuff is for family related purposes. So I'm doing these for free. I never thought about putting a blur, I'll try that. I guess if it was a paid shoot I'd be happier cutting the paper, It'll cost around £5 per cut (a roll is £50 and 11m in length and a cut being about 1m) Yes I'm stingy.

I just tried making a layer mask with a Gaussian blur, there's banding but it makes the job easier. I'll play around and find the best way to do it with blur. Cheers for that Mat.

When the lighting is really even I do sometimes get away with using a brush with a flow of about 40, brushing over the bad areas, but it still looks a bit too fake.

Sorted the link, I got really confused to why that wasn't working!

 

[swanseamale47]

After you blur try adding a tiny bit of grain back in, it's helps mask the blur and makes it look more normal.