Stewy wrote:
In article <SQzAj.61838$>,
measekite wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
wrote:
Hello,
I have a photo that was folded in half, unfortunately,
and I wonder if either Photoshop and/or The GIMP are
able to remove this crease.
Thank you for any assistance.
Easy as pie. I do it all the time.
With Photoshop or Photoshop Elements,
1.) Select the clone tool, set at 100% opacity and check "aligned" box.
2.) Enlarge the image to 300% so you can easily see what you are doing.
3.)Select a SOFT brush with a size slightly larger than the width of the crease. (Try 7-10 pixels for starters).
4.)Alt click on a "clean" spot very close to the crease.
5.)Drag your brush down the middle of the crease and it will magically
disappear.
You will have to "play around" with the process if the crease has many limbs, but this is the general idea……..Good luck.
Bob Williams
It is easy unless the fold is in such a place where using the clone tool or a healing brush will not blend well.
The biggest problem I find with this technique is try to clone out a crease near the subject’s eye – any advice on this?
Whenever I’ve had to do this, I use a very small, soft brush (2-3 pixels, 10 hardness and select the closest "clean" point I can for my source.
Closest means closest color value … you may have to use parts of the other eye to build up the eye that’s under the damage.
I also set opacity and flow at about 50%.
Instead of dragging, I use a click, click, click … moving the pointer around like manually spotting a print.
I un-check the "aligned" box. I want my source to stay within that "clean" spot, but I change the source point frequently to achieve a blend of tones matching the surrounding area that becomes harder to see in the repaired image.
All this is done on a duplicate layer. If it goes horribly wrong, discard the layer and start again. But it should work, so you can flatten the layer into the image later.
It’s the same technique you’d use to remove the reflection of strobes from a portrait subject’s eye-glasses. It’ll take a long time to build up the correction, but it’ll be damn near un-detectable in the end.