removing people from a picture

[dc57]

Hi all, I hope everyone is doing well.

I was wondering if there was a tutorial or if someone could give me some tips on removing people from a picture. There are four people in a picture and I need to get rid of two of them. There is a detailed background so using the clone stamp to cover them up might be a problem for me.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Don

[Panpan]

There is a tutorial here .

[dc57]

Thank you Panpan, I'll have a look and see if it will work for me.

Thanks again
Don

[Gary Richardson]

Hi,

If you post the picture it will be easier for someone to give you appropriate advice.

[pjanak]

It can be done in Photoshop 7 but I must tell you that in Photoshop CS2 its far easier. Due to a new perspective cloning tool. The attached example was very easy and I am sure you can see why. In the case of doing this type of work with a very detailed background, the cloning will have to be in much smaller increments. This image was done in far less than an hour(there was a lot of dust to clean up). Personally I like the city kids in the frame. Helps break up the monotoney of all those horizontal lines a little.

Pete

[dc57]

Nice work, pjanak

I will have to do it in Photoshop 7, that's all I have to work with. I will try to get the picture posted here in a little while so everyone can see what I need to do.
Thanks again for all your help. Nice job on the picture, pjanak

Don

[dc57]

Hi all,
Here is the sample of the picture. The two gentleman on the right need to be removed. I think the backgroung will be a lot of trouble to fill in where they were. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again
Don

[rondon]

you might be able to enlarge the 2 wanted subjects making them appear closer while covering the hard to blend area... I think the full sized scan of this photo is going to be great to work with.
RonDon

[Gary Richardson]

Nice one Rondon,

Takes care of the problem with the car with elegant simplicity, and also IMHO frames the picture much better.

[Kraellin]

yes, removing the two isnt that tough. like you said, it's filling in the background. i took this part way just from what was available in the picture. but, if you really want it to look better i'd suggest doing a google image search on old cars, particularly on that one car behind the two guys. if you know the make and model that would help in the search. try and find one with the full body showing and in that same perspective. then, use the found one to clone in the missing parts on your image.

what i did on yours, to the point that i took it, was all clone and push work. i borrowed parts of the foreground car, parts of the middle car like the one showing headlight and parts of the fender to do this. i cloned the tree out a bit and the building in the background to get rid of the two gents. it was just find something in the existing picture that looked like it could work somewhere and clone it in. i used push to even up some edges and smudge some stuff around. i also cloned out that '71' thing. i think that was from another car, a taxi. i cloned it completely out. wasnt important.

i didnt take it to a finish. i would need to know more about how that one car looked in particular and that's why the google image search or other existing pictures you might have that showed more about that car or type of car.

Craig

[dc57]

Thank you for your help, Kraellin.
That looks great. Looking for other pictures of cars from that era sounds like a good idea. I did not think that it would look that good from cloning.

rondon, your idea of enlarging the two people is also an interesting idea. I never would of thought of that. Thanks to all of you for your help. I now have some ideas and a little direction. Maybe this won't be as bad as I thought.

Don

[dc57]

Well, here it is.

This is about as good as it's going to get for my skill level. I followed rondon's lead and made them a bit bigger, moved them over and cloned the rest. I had a little trouble with the car in front of the woman in the background so, I just took it out. I hope it looks ok.
Again, thank you very much to everyone that helped me with this one.

[Kraellin]

good job!

only thing i dont like is the really black suits. was this a contrast or curves adjustment that did this?

great suggestion, rondon. wish i'd thought of that much more elegant and kills two birds with one stone.

Craig

[dc57]

Yes, the suits are a little dark, now that I look at it. That was a contrast adjustment. Thank you for the compliment.
Don

[rondon]

Glad you liked the idea... I found I have very little artistic talent but I call this sort of thing more the mechanical side of PS.
your final looks good Don

[Kraellin]

you're welcome, dc57. glad we could be of service.

and whatever you call it, rondon, it was the way to go

Craig

[pjanak]

Originally Posted by rondon

you might be able to enlarge the 2 wanted subjects making them appear closer while covering the hard to blend area... I think the full sized scan of this photo is going to be great to work with.
RonDon

I like this. Although the shadow is to light and sharp. But hey, I imagine it was a quickie.
Pete

[pjanak]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

good job!

only thing i dont like is the really black suits. was this a contrast or curves adjustment that did this?

great suggestion, rondon. wish i'd thought of that much more elegant and kills two birds with one stone.

Craig

I agree. The original example of this method also was dark. Maybe darkening them made slecting them easier? I dont know

[Kraellin]

could be, pjanak, in which case the selection could have been put on a separate layer and corrected for contrast/lightness.

at any rate, it's taught me a new trick, so thanks, all

Craig