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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?
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
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...
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!
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!
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