Quick Photoshop Question

[wolves_wanderer]

Hi all, I have a picture that needs a car removing from a drive, simple enough, the problem is that it shows through some foliage which the customer wants kept. How do I do it?

Below is an extract of the pic to show you what I mean, obviously the surroundings include the drive so I can copy that onto where the car is now but I don't know how to leave the tree alone (without being v time consuming)

[TimW]

i dont get what ur tring to say? Explain some more please, then i may be able to help u

[docevi1]

it's fairly easy Tim, he wants to remove the car from teh picture but leave the foilage in it's place so it resides over the top of the paving.

Hows about colour deletion on that area - the car and tree look sufficently different for it to work well enough...

[wolves_wanderer]

docevi1 said:

it's fairly easy Tim, he wants to remove the car from teh picture but leave the foilage in it's place so it resides over the top of the paving. Hows about colour deletion on that area - the car and tree look sufficently different for it to work well enough...

What he said.

[te51cle]

Don't Panic ! Remember that the tree doesn't have to look exactly the same shape as it is now, it just has to look tree-like. Clone over most of the car up to the edge of the tree line using the block paving as a source, then clone over what remains using either that tree or another one nearby as a source.

If the picture covers a wide area then I expect there are similar pieces of foliage you can use.

[dcw@pr]

te51cle said:

Don't Panic ! Remember that the tree doesn't have to look exactly the same shape as it is now, it just has to look tree-like. Clone over most of the car up to the edge of the tree line using the block paving as a source, then clone over what remains using either that tree or another one nearby as a source. If the picture covers a wide area then I expect there are similar pieces of foliage you can use.

thats the way to go. post a link to the full image and i'll have a crack if you want

[_dobbo_]

There's a plugin for photoshop called "image doctor" which should do what you want. You can download a free trial of it:

www.freephotoshop.com/html/alien_skin.html

Example:

[bilko2]

That looks good Dobbo.
I had a crack and magic wanded all the car but couldn't figure out how to copy the pavement sufficiently to paste into the blank space.
1 hour later i gave up in distgust:heh:

[wolves_wanderer]

dcw@pr said:

te51cle said: Don't Panic ! Remember that the tree doesn't have to look exactly the same shape as it is now, it just has to look tree-like. Clone over most of the car up to the edge of the tree line using the block paving as a source, then clone over what remains using either that tree or another one nearby as a source. If the picture covers a wide area then I expect there are similar pieces of foliage you can use. thats the way to go. post a link to the full image and i'll have a crack if you want

Thanks for the offer but it's a 11mp image straight from a EOS-1DS and I don't have any means of hosting an image that size I'm afraid.

>> Edited by wolves_wanderer on Thursday 3rd February 19:22

[wolves_wanderer]

Thanks for all the tips, I will give it another go tomorrow and post up my finished efforts and let you have a laugh!

Bilko2 you have my sympathies, having spent most of the day sat in front of that picture I know exactly what you went through!

I have always just taken the pictures but since going digital I have got more involved in "post-production" and although I'm quite happy to correct colour casts and remove haze etc I'm not really an expert on the more advanced techniques. Still, there's only one way to learn

[simpo two]

I'd use the rubber stamp/clone tool. If you get the spacing right you can paint new bricks anywhere you want. Or make the tree bigger...?

[wolves_wanderer]

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