technique help: removing creases from bed linen

[cwinhall]

I need to remove the creases in the bed linen here... the main problem area being the corner of the bed... tried some spot healing and cloning but it just ended up looking tatty...

if anyone could give me some tips for a better technique to disguise these creases, it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[DemiLion]

An iron and a decent bed making technique come to mind!!

If the image is important I'd seriously consider reshooting. The amount of PP needed is likely to make the image look fairly pants to be honest!

 

[srichards]

Yup. Ironing it would be quicker! Pro room setters would probably use pins to pull the bed linen taught.

 

[DemiLion]

Pah! Decent sheets and hospital corners are the answer!!

 

[cwinhall]

and if a re-shoot is not possible?

There's got to be a good way to go about this....

 

[nickshek]

There is a technique sometimes referred to as the Inverse High Pass or Degrunge technique which can be used to soften the transition between highlights and shadows - in other words, a form of digital ironing. But that technique alone isn't going to fix your image here...

If you remove the creases, the sheet would be taut which would mean the shape of the cloth would be different (eg. you could use Liquify to reshape) - it would also mean the lighting on that area would be different (eg. you could use Dodge + Burn to introduce the "correct" light/shadows), etc.

Fixable in post? Yeah but helluva lot easier if you corrected it on location. Never mind though, we all miss things now and again. I've mentioned a couple of techniques here, there are plenty of videos online that can explain them to you better than I ever could in words. Hope this helps and good luck! Try not to tear too much hair out

 

[MisterE]

Just a wild idea springing to mind. Shoot a similar bed corner that you do have access to then transpose and blend it on to this one.

 

[cwinhall]

There is a technique sometimes referred to as the Inverse High Pass or Degrunge technique which can be used to soften the transition between highlights and shadows - in other words, a form of digital ironing. But that technique alone isn't going to fix your image here...

If you remove the creases, the sheet would be taut which would mean the shape of the cloth would be different (eg. you could use Liquify to reshape) - it would also mean the lighting on that area would be different (eg. you could use Dodge + Burn to introduce the "correct" light/shadows), etc.

Fixable in post? Yeah but helluva lot easier if you corrected it on location. Never mind though, we all miss things now and again. I've mentioned a couple of techniques here, there are plenty of videos online that can explain them to you better than I ever could in words. Hope this helps and good luck! Try not to tear too much hair out

Thank you for your input, I took your advice on the inverse high pass technique and coupled it with some other minor tweaks and I think I have come up with a good output.

Opinions...:thumbsdown::shrug:

Before:

After:

 

[arad85]

That looks much better to me, but it's only very small. That'll be fine if you're shooting for web, but if you're shooting for a big poster it may not be so clever. The only downside is now the bed looks perfectly made, it accentuates the messy valance around the bottom of the bed