Putting Toes in Photshop

Well I want to thank @Horoscope Fish and [MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] for the help and encouragement in trying to use photoshop. I have started slowly within my limits and it is going. I got rid of a garbage can and power lines and made boarders. Slow and steady is working. Learning. Repition helps. Thanks gentlemen!

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Danno said:

Well I want to thank @Horoscope Fish and [MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] for the help and encouragement in trying to use photoshop. I have started slowly within my limits and it is going. I got rid of a garbage can and power lines and made boarders. Slow and steady is working. Learning. Repition helps. Thanks gentlemen!

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I'm glad to hear you're making progress! Stick with it.. It does get easier.

Horoscope Fish said:

I'm glad to hear you're making progress! Stick with it.. It does get easier.

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It is good therapy. But it is slow because it takes a lot of exercise to be able to remember where things are, but I am very happy with the progress. Keeps me moving forward.

It is still a mystery to me.

I don't understand layers. I haven't figured out how to remove an unwanted object from a scene.

Mostly all I do is crop, resize, straighten (rotate) and enhance auto-levels.

Pretty sad. My copy is 2.0.

Here I tried to remove an air conditioner from the pillion seat with the cloning tool...

RobV said:

It is still a mystery to me.

I don't understand layers. I haven't figured out how to remove an unwanted object from a scene.

Mostly all I do is crop, resize, straighten (rotate) and enhance auto-levels.

Pretty sad. My copy is 2.0.

Here I tried to remove an air conditioner from the pillion seat with the cloning tool...

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I am using creative cloud. Layers still mess me up, I do most things in
Light Room. But I am slowly learning one thing at a time. My disability forces me to go slow. I wish I could offer a suggestion but I am at the point where I may work through a few tools to figure out the right one.

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Danno, One thing that has helped me a lot is a 3X5 card for a technique I seldom use, they were all 3X5's when I started but I find it easeir to write down the steps, put a title on the top and keep them in a receipe box for future reference, I just never stop learning new techniques, youtube is fabulous as are other blogs and forums. Lots of help on the Photoshop Gurus site.

Ruidoso Bill said:

Danno, One thing that has helped me a lot is a 3X5 card for a technique I seldom use, they were all 3X5's when I started but I find it easeir to write down the steps, put a title on the top and keep them in a receipe box for future reference, I just never stop learning new techniques, youtube is fabulous as are other blogs and forums. Lots of help on the Photoshop Gurus site.

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Thanks Bill, that 3x5 card suggestion is a good idea. . YouTube is my friend

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Just takes a little practice and patience to learn how

Danno,

One of the best free resources I could steer you towards with tutorials from simple to complex is https://www.youtube.com/user/PhlearnLLC

And here I thought you were trying to photoshop in toes onto one of your subjects.

RocketCowboy said:

And here I thought you were trying to photoshop in toes onto one of your subjects.

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Nope, that is just the dain bramage leaving words out... :encouragement::loyal: the word water was supposed to be in there somewhere but I forgot... HA That is just part of the pageantry....:unconscious:

Don Kuykendall said:

Just takes a little practice and patience to learn how


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It looks great Don, but I am clueless how you achieved that. Surely not the clone tool.

RobV said:

It looks great Don, but I am clueless how you achieved that. Surely not the clone tool.

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Yes, mostly the clone tool.

Just for fun I took a stab at removing the AC unit and the box/conduit on the side of the house.

Certainly not my finest hour, clearly I need to clean up a line or two, but all was done with the Clone Tool:
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Obviously I need to learn the fundamentals of the clone tool.
Do you grab a new sample before each paste?
Can the copy be some shape other than a circle? I know the size can vary. I just wondered if an oblong or rectangle might be better.

I like what you did with the rear stand, too, Don.

Hope you don't mind the thread hijack, Danno.

RobV said:

Obviously I need to learn the fundamentals of the clone tool.
Do you grab a new sample before each paste?
Can the copy be some shape other than a circle? I know the size can vary. I just wondered if an oblong or rectangle might be better.

I like what you did with the rear stand, too, Don.

Hope you don't mind the thread hijack, Danno.

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Not at all. This is good discussion.

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RobV said:

Obviously I need to learn the fundamentals of the clone tool.
Do you grab a new sample before each paste?
Can the copy be some shape other than a circle? I know the size can vary. I just wondered if an oblong or rectangle might be better.

I like what you did with the rear stand, too, Don.

Hope you don't mind the thread hijack, Danno.

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RobV, you'll love PS when you get used to it! Mind you, that could be YEARS! Back to your questions...Sometimes I option/alt-click and get a new selection but other times I let the tool go back to the same setting (UNtick Aligned). Probably the best advice is to use the Opacity slider. Subtlety is everything with the clone tool.

Yes, the shape can be different. Simply choose a new brush from your Brush drop down menu. I rarely change from circular. Hard edge and soft edge are important. Have fun.

Did you set the healing brush tool to aligned? then click that tool appx 1 --width of the thing you are 'cloning' then go over to where you want to repeat the pattern and line up the edge of the clapboard in the circle with the edge in the part youre covering , keep the thing pressed and paint any size or shape patch you like , If you leave the brush in "normal" mode ,it will sometimes make approximations you don't like. Choosing replacement mode instead, doesnt make the approximations and paints on a literal copy of the starting spot,.but ,, It leaves a 'hard' edge , but that can be fixed by using a small diameter brush or the regular 'spot healing ' brush. ---------the other fix would be to put a duplicate copy of the photo underneath the original photo offset the two so that the eraser will reveal the part of the wall which at the left of the AC. using the alignment tool on either layer to match the edges of the siding.

Thanks guys.
On the advice of some friends, an embarrassingly long time ago, I picked up a copy of "Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography," 107 Lessons on taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better Digital Images.

If I had been reading it all this time, I would probably be an expert. We'll see what happens now that I am out of my cannabis-induced haze.
My doctor is going to start me on a testosterone supplement. I have only heard good things about that, energy-wise. No, I don't expect to become 2016's next great lover! LOL!

A slightly different view on Photoshop, I think it's well worth the time and effort to get proficient with it (even if it's a slow process). We all share a passion for photography and LR definitely can take our pics to another level. Photoshop can do all of this AND bring your creativity to a new level. I'm still honing my PS skills and I still have a long way to go. Thanks to countless youtube videos and this forum my progress is coming along well. As a "for instance" @carguy had a thread with an awesome idea for trading cards for young sports players. I was able to take my daughter's soccer team photos and throw them into PS to create personalized trading cards of my own. PS is great for editing and enhancing photos but it can also do so much more. Once you get a handle on it you can really amaze yourself at some of things you can do.