Taking out light source with Photoshop?? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

jaker · 05-10-2010, 12:49 PM

Hi, I have this image

which I am trying to alter in Photoshop. It is a picture of a friend holding my niece, and the light source in the background looked like a halo around her head. I want to remove the other, second light source to the left of the image. I have tried to use the Clone Stamp tool, but reading the instructions online makes my eyes cross and I dont feel like it is the best tool for the job

Can anybody alter this image and then tell me which tool they used?? Thanks

telekinetic · 05-10-2010, 01:13 PM

That is an EXTREMELY noisy image, and because of that, getting anything to match and look plausible is going to be a challenge, since you will not only be trying to match the basic texture, but the noise grain as well. Also, the blurry hand part actually overlaps the light puddle that you're trying to delete...without a hard crop line it's going to be pretty difficult to get that isolated.

If I were you I'd solve this problem with cropping rather than 'shopping.

jaker · 05-11-2010, 02:26 PM

Good idea. Thanks

I do still prefer the whole image. The painting to the left is great

MexicanOnABike · 05-11-2010, 03:08 PM

you could isolate the wall and redo the gradient.

MexicanOnABike · 05-11-2010, 03:24 PM

for post above: I simply redid the wall as a gradient from almost original colours. then I cut out what I wanted. This was done in 3min. take longer and you could have something great! and if you want to keep your full picture, then just expand to a bigger wall with ceiling. total of 2 layer.

MexicanOnABike · 05-13-2010, 02:30 PM

did you try it? any luck doing this?

05-10-2010, 12:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
jaker Crazy	Taking out light source with Photoshop?? Hi, I have this image which I am trying to alter in Photoshop. It is a picture of a friend holding my niece, and the light source in the background looked like a halo around her head. I want to remove the other, second light source to the left of the image. I have tried to use the Clone Stamp tool, but reading the instructions online makes my eyes cross and I dont feel like it is the best tool for the job Can anybody alter this image and then tell me which tool they used?? Thanks

05-10-2010, 01:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
telekinetic zomgomgomgomgomgomg Location: Fauxenix, Azerona	That is an EXTREMELY noisy image, and because of that, getting anything to match and look plausible is going to be a challenge, since you will not only be trying to match the basic texture, but the noise grain as well. Also, the blurry hand part actually overlaps the light puddle that you're trying to delete...without a hard crop line it's going to be pretty difficult to get that isolated. If I were you I'd solve this problem with cropping rather than 'shopping. __________________ twisted no more Last edited by telekinetic; 05-10-2010 at 01:19 PM..

05-11-2010, 03:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
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05-13-2010, 02:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
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05-11-2010, 02:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
jaker Crazy	Good idea. Thanks I do still prefer the whole image. The painting to the left is great