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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 143968" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>OK, I hope you don't mind me posting this here, but it was easier than uploading the corrected jpeg somewhere and PM'ing.</p><p></p><p>Here's the original photo...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34944[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Lots of stuff in the foreground to get rid of, with details behind that you want to keep. Definitely needs a combination of the content aware healing brush and clone tool as content aware fill probably won't cut it with the diverse background. I start with the Healing Brush and attack a branch section at a time, reducing the size of the brush to just larger than the branch and then doing only a little bit at a time, and only sections with a similar background (i.e. don't cross from water to sand, or even light sand to dark sand). I started top center with the peninsula and worked down and out. After doing a small section I'd take a look and see what looked "fixed". I'd switch to the clone stamp, again with a very small brush, and find an original section of the photo that looked similar and clone a bit at a time. When I hit water I chose one of two sections of the river (the top split or the large area between the branches at the bottom) and would mark the center of that as my clone point and then paint small sections at a time, returning to/restarting from the same clone point again and again. For land/water borders I would take a clone point very close to the area requiring fixing and do the same thing, grab a point, fix a spot, go back, fix another spot. It is a tedious process, but if you bite a section at a time it's entirely possible. Spot heal, clone, spot heal, clone. Undo what doesn't work and try again. Work in really small bits, because going bigger introduces stuff from other sections. In some cases I would also change the opacity of the clone tool. I also worked with a soft edged brush to mask transitions.</p><p></p><p>This took me about an hour. I liked the furry branches so I left them in, showing you can be selective in what you leave behind - I just fixed the spots where branch types crossed. I believe if I had a RAW file to work with instead of a reduced jpeg it would have been cleaner, but I'm OK with the results for example purposes. If I had more details I would be able to get a couple problem sections much cleaner. I'd also look to some other photos taken at the same time to see if I had sections of those that I could use as a source for the clone tool.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34945[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 143968, member: 9240"] OK, I hope you don't mind me posting this here, but it was easier than uploading the corrected jpeg somewhere and PM'ing. Here's the original photo... [ATTACH type="full"]34944._xfImport[/ATTACH] Lots of stuff in the foreground to get rid of, with details behind that you want to keep. Definitely needs a combination of the content aware healing brush and clone tool as content aware fill probably won't cut it with the diverse background. I start with the Healing Brush and attack a branch section at a time, reducing the size of the brush to just larger than the branch and then doing only a little bit at a time, and only sections with a similar background (i.e. don't cross from water to sand, or even light sand to dark sand). I started top center with the peninsula and worked down and out. After doing a small section I'd take a look and see what looked "fixed". I'd switch to the clone stamp, again with a very small brush, and find an original section of the photo that looked similar and clone a bit at a time. When I hit water I chose one of two sections of the river (the top split or the large area between the branches at the bottom) and would mark the center of that as my clone point and then paint small sections at a time, returning to/restarting from the same clone point again and again. For land/water borders I would take a clone point very close to the area requiring fixing and do the same thing, grab a point, fix a spot, go back, fix another spot. It is a tedious process, but if you bite a section at a time it's entirely possible. Spot heal, clone, spot heal, clone. Undo what doesn't work and try again. Work in really small bits, because going bigger introduces stuff from other sections. In some cases I would also change the opacity of the clone tool. I also worked with a soft edged brush to mask transitions. This took me about an hour. I liked the furry branches so I left them in, showing you can be selective in what you leave behind - I just fixed the spots where branch types crossed. I believe if I had a RAW file to work with instead of a reduced jpeg it would have been cleaner, but I'm OK with the results for example purposes. If I had more details I would be able to get a couple problem sections much cleaner. I'd also look to some other photos taken at the same time to see if I had sections of those that I could use as a source for the clone tool. [ATTACH type="full"]34945._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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