Last week, on my long flight home from New York, after catching up on my email and other work, I had another couple of hours to kill before landing in San Francisco. I had this one photo of a man painting in Central Park, but really was not happy with the fence in the shot. I tried to walk to a different position to shoot this without the fence, but since he was right against it, that was not possible. With time to kill, I decided to try and edit out the fence, one link at a time!
This is the original image. I love the light on the face of the painter, and I like the framing with the two ladies talking in the background. But, as I mentioned, the fence really bugged me. So..time to go to work with the healing brush and clone tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
After a couple of hours, I was able to remove more than half of the fence and recreate some of the painter's stand that was covered by the green fence post.
I was zoomed way in on the image when removing each link of the fence. This was tedious work, with the amount of fence that was in the image.
After 4 hours of work, this is the completed image. If you did not see the original image (above), would you have been fooled?
Clearly, I could not afford to make this a habit. Sure... it was a fun challenge and it did test my Photoshop skills, but it also tested my patience. I can also tell you that this was easier to complete on my main editing machine at home. Not only did I have a faster Mac with a 30" Cinema Display, but I also had my Wacom Tablet and no turbulence to deal with. :)
2 comments:
Did you try using Content Aware Fill in CS5? You would still have to select everything, perhaps using Color Range. But seems to me that would have saved 3 of the 4 hours. ;)
Great end result however you did it.
Very nice photography, share more.
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