How do i do this..

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Slipperman

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in Gimp or PS. take this photo..

Matta_Hunter_ 172_1900.jpg

i like this shot except for the rear flower kind of mixing in with the front and the leaves on the right not being faded enough. kinda ruins it imo. so with that, how would i..

1. fade the background and the right side even further so the foreground flower stands out more

or

2. fade the right side and remove the background flower altogether and replace it with leaves (faded).

and details please. i'm not expert enough in these programs to make assumptions on what you mean.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
It's a very easy thing to show you but a not-so-easy thing to verbalize. But all the things you ask about are easily done in PS (and presumably in GIMP)
 
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Slipperman

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Dave_W said:
It's a very easy thing to show you but a not-so-easy thing to verbalize. But all the things you ask about are easily done in PS (and presumably in GIMP)
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that's what i figured. any way you could give me the main functionality i'll need so i can maybe figure it out on my own?
 
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pedroj

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Large aperture F3.5....or with PS..Magnetic lasso tool around half the image and Gaussian Blur...Then the other side.. Try You Tube if this dont help..

Matta_Hunter_ 172_1900 copy.jpg
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Basically you have 2 options-
a) go for heavy lifting & try to clone out the flower.
b) just darken everything other than the flower so the main focus of the viewer would be on the flower

Am guessing you just starting out with GIMP/PS, so option (b) seems better .
Select the flower using the Lasso tool - then reverse the selection so everything other than the flower gets selected to allow you to darken the background (or anything else you want)

that's a very basic step by step, you may want to watch some videos on youtube for 'selections how to' for a clearer understanding
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Slipperman said:
in Gimp or PS. take this photo..

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i like this shot except for the rear flower kind of mixing in with the front and the leaves on the right not being faded enough. kinda ruins it imo. so with that, how would i..

1. fade the background and the right side even further so the foreground flower stands out more

or

2. fade the right side and remove the background flower altogether and replace it with leaves (faded).

and details please. i'm not expert enough in these programs to make assumptions on what you mean.
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Someone had almost the same picture recently and I removed the second flower and softened the leaves. Are you sure this wasn't the one?
 
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Slipperman

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Tracsoft - Don Kuykendall said:
Someone had almost the same picture recently and I removed the second flower and softened the leaves. Are you sure this wasn't the one?
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yeah, that was me. even though you mentioned what you did, i couldn't figure out how to select just what i wanted. now i know about the invert selection but when i try to use the fuzzy select tool to get just the front flower, i get it and the back flower as well because it goes by color.
 
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Slipperman

Senior Member
isn't there a way to auto select the front flower by its region boundaries instead of by color? doing it by color always selects the back flower as well. and the lasso tool is never accurate because you're doing it by hand.
 
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Slipperman

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unfortunately there is no Quick Select tool in Gimp but there is a Scissors select which creates a 'line' that wraps around the closest edges each time you set a point with the mouse. still kinda slow but better and more exact than the lasso tool.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
Although GIMP is a nice program considering the cost, it's hard to do Photoshop techniques without Photoshop. You really should get a copy of PS and be done with it. Actually, I think PS-Elements will do this kind of stuff and isn't all that expensive.
 
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Slipperman

Senior Member
how's this?

Matta_Hunter_ 172_blur3.jpg

i first selected then cut out the background flower using the scissor thing then did a clone from an area to the left of the flower which i figured already contained an alike amount of fade as where the flower was then just brushed in the cut out area. the cool thing was i didn't have to worry about running over the edges of where the flower was because that area was still selected. after selecting the foreground flower (scissor thing), i inverted it then faded the rest at 85 (pixels i think).
came out pretty good. it's barely discernible where the background flower used to be thanx to the fade but what i don't like is because of the fade, the flower itself now looks like it's glowing and if you blow it up, you can see irregularities where the selection was (black lines/splotches). probably something i can do to fix that but not sure what.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Slipperman said:
how's this?
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Looks good to me.

The problems you cite seem minor and, really, the correct answer here is that relying on post-processing to correct what never should have happened with a composition is almost always going to be difficult and time consuming under the best of circumstances and butchery at worst.


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