Offending foot

[Britsdad]

Hi guys,
I have a problem I hope someone can help me with....The attached pic is of my cousins dog, she has asked me to remove the foot in the centre right. This is then going to be printed 600x400 mm on canvas, so it has to be convincing. I have a 7"x5" print from her that has been printed from a CD, (that I have) and the background is much darker than on the attached pic, but the offending foot is still a huge distraction. Any ideas will be welcome
Regards.....John

[rrustic]

How about making the shoe a bit darker like the attached.
I selected the sneaker, painted dark, adjusted opacity.
Not so distracting.

[Ant]

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[Britsdad]

Yea, I tried that, but my results looked too "painted". I also tried to darken it with levels and curves, with same results....I even tried colorizine it with hue sat, same again . Have to admit though, your's looks better than mine did.
John
Edit: Ant what's that for?

[albatrosss]

My attempt. Done quickly so needs more work . May not be what you had in mind.

[Britsdad]

Ant...ah I see now, however the print is 60x40 landscape.
albatrosss...funny you should suggest that, I am just trying the same now
John

[Britsdad]

Thanks you guys...I think I've got it sorted, what do you reckon?
John

[lurch]

To my eye that pink thing (upper left) is just as much a distraction as the foot. For a big print on canvas, Ant's approach is much better. And the canvas doesn't care if you rotate it 90 degrees . . .

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[Britsdad]

Thanks lurch, mmmmm got that carried away with the foot I never even noticed the "pink thing"
As for the rotation thing, you don't know my cousin,"if she wants a landscape, she gets a landscape"
Cheers.....John

[transoptic]

I dunno... since the photo is so snapshotty, why doesn't she take a different photo in her backyard or something??

[Flora]

Another possible way...

Blurred and decreased brightness of the background around the dog...

No rotation and no cropping...

[Oh_Heck]

Kinda quick and messy here, but just to show you what you could do. My personal opinion, for a portrait you need to get rid of alot of the distracting elements in the background to bring focus on your subject. That pink thing needs to go but i'm on a bit of a time constraint at the moment.

[0lBaldy]

How about something like this?

And it is in your 600mm X 400mm Format.

[chillin]

I pushed the foot behind the chair & left the light on the chair to further diminish visibility of the sneaker. I did not want to alter the picture too much.

[Britsdad]

Thanks all,
This is going to be the final print, I toned down the "pink thing" and the foot then blurred the background, and sharpened up the dog, and it came out like this......not too bad for a snapshotty pic
Regards, and thanks again.......John