The Camera Never Lies *big*

[dcw@pr]

Sorry it's so wide, but it works better that way



Had to do thisfor a client, I wonder what the bridesmaid will think?

[ywouldi]

Thats pretty damn impressive!

[slinky]

ywouldi said:

Thats pretty damn impressive!

before reading the reply, i said (out loud) "bloody hell, that's impressive!"

slinky

[GetCarter]

Sure you erased the right one?

[mrs fish]

I work with photoshop every day, and can be pretty nifty if I do say so myself, but with that, even I am impressed

[simpo two]

She's still standing on skis though

[Paul.B]

Can you also shift the bride into the middle of the shot now to balance it up?


I can see where Getcarter is coming from. Hmmm

[tuffer]

Just need to get rid of the shadow from her dress, or put her back and get rid of the bride.

[dcw@pr]

GetCarter said:

Sure you erased the right one?

I challenge anyone to be able to remove the bride instead (convincingly...) I don't think it's possible, but I would love to see someone prove me wrong!

Thanks for all the comments, and yes, I know it's a bit unbalanced now, maybe I will crop it down a bit more?

[Paul.B]

dcw@pr said:

GetCarter said: Sure you erased the right one? I challenge anyone to be able to remove the bride instead (convincingly...) I don't think it's possible, but I would love to see someone prove me wrong! Thanks for all the comments, and yes, I know it's a bit unbalanced now, maybe I will crop it down a bit more?

I doubt it was a question from a technical point of view!

Would be interesting to see someone transplant body parts within that shot though.

Paul.B

[FourWheelDrift]

Doc Brown in Back to the future said:

"Erased.........................from existence"

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 24th November 22:20

[srider]

Nicely done!

[robdickinson]

Excelent job, almost finished too, might as well remove the chair also, far less pleasing on the eye than the bridsmaid.

[branflakes]

dcw@pr said:

I challenge anyone to be able to remove the bride instead (convincingly...) I don't think it's possible, but I would love to see someone prove me wrong!

Here's my attempt:



I'm sure someone can do better!

[tvradict]

how the hell did you do that??

Very Impressive.

[stuh]

Wow, that's fantastic!

Any chance of a little tutorial on how you did it?

[branflakes]

tvradict said:

how the hell did you do that??

It was actually a lot less complicated than it looks. Copious amounts of cloning the floor (using Photoshop) over the bride took care of most of it. Same for the piller behind the bride's head. If you look closely at the original you'll see there's a flower arrangement over the bride's left shoulder that seems to be on a table - as there wasn't enough information in the rest of the picture to recreate the whole table, I just cloned that out as well.

That damn chair was the hardest part, and if you look closely you can see it's far from perfect. To build the entire chair I copied the right side of it, flipped it horizontally and pasted back into the picture in what looked like a reasonable position. I then rebuilt the centre of the chair with the clone stamp tool (again) and much use of CTRL+Z (undo!). Didn't get it as well as I'd hoped though.

To finish off I blended any areas that didn't look right using Photoshop's dodge, burn and healing tool.

You can get some quite incredible results using Photoshop's clone tools...

[dcw@pr]

branflakes said:

Here's my attempt:

good effort!

you're almost there - just need to tweak the alignment on the chair pattern and the bars on the floor. Also shadow looks funy on the chair. But that was a good idea to flip it in the first place

[LongQ]

Cracking effort!

The spurious reflections of the pillar on the floor by the door need looking at though - if I'm in ultra picky mode.

Trouble is, who would pay for the resulting picture of a chair?

Is this a good commercial arrangement?

Still think it might be easier and more cost effective to go back and re-shoot a 'clean' background and then insert the bride .. if you see what I mean! Or just put her onto a totally differnt 'stock' background. She probably won't remember the details anyway!

[dcw@pr]

LongQ said:

Cracking effort! The spurious reflections of the pillar on the floor by the door need looking at though - if I'm in ultra picky mode.

indeed.

i replied to your other point in the original thread about removing the man from in front of the Boxster