Apr
01

Family photo re-do

Posted by DeAnna

I showed you this family photo in a previous post. My youngest brother Ryan’s former girlfriend is standing next to the bride. Ryan and his girlfriend have since broken up and he asked if I could work some magic and remove her from the photo for the album I’ve been working on for Brandon and Eden. I wasn’t sure I could do it, but I thought I would give it a try. Here’s the original:

Here’s the after:

Not bad, if I do say so myself. Not perfect though. I basically created a copy of the original photo on a new layer (ctrl + J), removed the right half of the copy (the top layer), and moved it over so Ryan was closer to Eden (the bride). On the bottom layer, I removed the left half of the photo from about where Ryan was standing so I didn’t have any overlap at the left edge.

Then I started erasing Ryan’s ex-girlfriend so that you could see Eden again, using a soft rounded brush. The detail work was hard since Ryan is turned so sharply, and the left half of his body was covered by his girlfriend.

I used the colour picker and changed the opacity of the brushes here and there to match the colour of Ryan suit, and using a combination of hard and soft rounded brushes I painted his suit back in. Considering that I’ve removed an entire person from the photo, I don’t think it looks half bad!

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