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P/S Elements Help needed
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Folks, any chance someone can point me to an easy tutorial for elements help. I took a lot of family pics last night and some of them have shadows behind. If I could figure out how to remove the shadows, I’d be really happy. I did try via various Youtube sites and also Elements help, but nothing was working to my satisfaction. Mind you, it was late at night and I was tired……..
I need to crop etc., all that I can do, but that blinkn’ shadow, aggh!
Any help, suggestions, greatly appreciated.Mary
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IMG_1744 by mardai24, on FlickrMary, i hate to tell you but there is no easy answer for getting rid of those shadows. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them too. Basically, you either clone or paint the areas- a painstaking task. Or erase the background altogether which then leaves you with the dilemma of placing them convincingly in a new one. I am not familiar with what elements has or hasn’t but you can try this link for a few tips: http://www.sitepoint.com/masking-techniques-photoshop/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
agree with the above. photography is a NEVER ending learning curve. the lesson you should learn from this is that, prevention is better that cure. if you could a bounced the flash off the ceiling you would have eliminated the shadow in camera. but your question is how to remove the shadow here is ps elm, answer is using the clone tool as mentioned above, takes time and patience but you should get a pretty good finish. hope this helps
done a quick 5 min job on it to show the kind of result the clone tool does. keeping in mind it was only a quick effort but will give you some idea on what might be achieved. hope this helps
Wow, I like that one above. Thanks so much. Right so, cloning it is. I’ll spend a couple of hours this evening and try it out.
Thanks a million,
MaryYep! I’ve done this myself with some important photos. The victim had large ears which made very large shadows. I had to do a lot of cloning to clean up. If it’s important do it slowly and with smaller brushes as you get closer to the heads. Zoom in at that point too. Masking is a realistic option. A bit more tricky but youll find YouTube videos
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