[Closed] Photoshopping - just how good can it be ?

*Pulls up a chair.*

Hang on, I've not got enough popcorn for everyone.

Just crop it. I think it looks better in portrait anyway.

I’ve got plenty cougar.

So glad Jamie is back.

Just crop it. I think it looks better in portrait anyway.

Yea, thats an option my skills could perform. I kinda think the wall on the right sets it off nicely though. God darn photographers!!! 😉

Here you go.

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creating more trail erosion by avoiding the puddle?

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creating more trail erosion by avoiding the puddle?

Really??? or... avoiding trail erosion by riding around it... you can clearly see tyre marks in the puddle from others passing through it, can you see any left by me from riding on a well drained substrate ❓

You'd best avert your eco gaze from the destruction of the fell by this guy:

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I have no Photoshop skills, but it had to be done.

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remove this guy on the right

That'll be ten quid.

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Seamless Cougar.

Really??? or... avoiding trail erosion by riding around it

Seamless Cougar.

Which was his nickname when he was a male model in the 80s.

Seamless Cougar.

I thought so.

I tried to mask out the background, then when I copied it across it copied the blank background overwriting the main image rather than being transparent as I expected it to be. At which point I thought, "bugger it, this is far too much effort for a shit joke." I really should learn how to use Photoshop - well, Paint.NET, I'm a pauper - effectively at some point.

He's still on the man-made trail so it's ok in that case. It's people leaving the trails that are the big problem.

As much as I'd like to have some fun with that - I haven't got my mac handy.

So I'll be serious - assuming it's a racing picture and the photographer has a load of shots from the same spot? You'll need another one with similar lighting but without the walker and it's a pretty easy job.

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You should ask this guy.

http://jamesfridman.com/

^ was exactly what it reminded me of!

[img][url= https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4351/37456295145_66c67e7e69_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4351/37456295145_66c67e7e69_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/Z4TiAa ]biker[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhampshire/ ]Matthew Hampshire[/url], on Flickr[/img]

2 mins in photoshop. could do better with time

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Here's my effort, all done on my phone so I'm sure a pro could do a good job.

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Opens thread. Is disappoint.

Edit: cross post. Improving!

creating more trail erosion by avoiding the puddle?

Seriously? He's on the trail, not the grass.

Get out of bed the wrong side today did you?

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It'd be a lot better if you got rid of that advertising banner strapped to your 'bars.

Something like this? (very rough / half-arsed)

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Just grab other similar images, layer them, line them up as best you can and poke hole in them, mask them or clone stamp them in.

It's easy if you have the assets from another image to comp in, the attempts up there look half arsed! (Edit not the previous post)
I did a job for the Assos store in london where they had Greg Van Armanet on the Paris roubaix but needed a wider panoramic shot, I had a load of images I shot in 2012 in more or less the same spot so have pavé and corrn field at the same early spring green stage of growing, it looked seamless and no obvious repeated bits of background.

The main issue is you maybe not paying the photographer for the image?? (Hence the watermark)

Photoshop threads never disappoint!
Once upon a time I could have taken the random bod out of the photo, did it loads of times, even introduced a person into a group standing in front of the shop they all worked at. That was a bugger to do, they’d left a bit of a space in the middle, but the original photo was taken on a bright sunny day, the photo of the missing person on a dull, cloudy day, so the photo had a blue-ish cast.
I has to cut out the two separate groups put them onto layers, drop in the extra person, change the colour cast, replace shadows and stonework of the building that was behind the people I’d moved, overlap the three separate bits, and blend it other bits.
Took a few hours, it might have been easy and cheaper to re-shoot the photo with everyone in place, tbh, but it was fun to do, and the owner of the business, who sold expensive teddy bears, was chuffed to bit.
I no longer have the skills, Photoshop, or an appropriate computer to be able to do it on, sadly.

was taking the piss (a bit)

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GrahamS - Member
Something like this?

*Waits for animation....*

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I'm just starting to learn how to use GIMP so this is the best I can do i'm afraid.
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Ha ha, funny.

I clearly am an unskilled dinosaur.

So, hypothetically, if I brought the photo from said photographer, would one of you geeks tweak it for me? Happy to pay or donate to a charity of your choice.

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You'd need other images taken from roughly the same spot and at the original resolution. Which you'd have to pay for too.

So realistically you might be better asking the photographer if he can do it for you (for a fee).

Let this be a warning to other innocent bystanders

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Needs moar unicorns pooping rainbows

GrahamS - good advice, ta.

I kinda like Cougar's second attempt. It's like Badger's in some sort of faceless Tardis and turned up cos it's a PS thread.

Some other superb work, too.

Needs moar bmx guy

*s****s.

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s****s

s'not s'white guys on bikes.

This is an ace thread, please keep going.

Excellent!

Wish I’d more time to join too.

Can someone add Benedict Cumberbatch and some cucumbers please?

There was a thread a while back about this and I thought it was rather amusing 🙂

Thanks in advance 🙂

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Meanwhile, on ArseholesVideoInPortrait.com,

Given earlier discussion in the thread, I'm disappointed nobody has 'shopped the OP riding through the middle of the puddle. Can somebody please do that one for me, as my skills are nowhere near good enough?

Though I think James Fridman's response to the OP's request would have been to remove the person on the right hand side of the trail...

I can't do photoshop so i took a different approach.

I contacted the photographer and asked for the shot immediately prior. I set a trap. If you back and refresh you should be happy with the results.

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Though I think James Fridman's response to the OP's request would have been to remove the person on the right hand side of the trail...

In honesty, that was my first thought also, removing the person "on the right" from the point of view of the people in the photo.

Serious question - how are people downloading the pic to mess around with it?

demonracer - fantastic, thank you very much 🙂

Cougar - that video is superb, I never knew cats hated cucumbers so much.

Think I might get a cat.

And some cucumbers.

Badger hasn't changed much!

aracer - the image src is in the page markup. You can use developer tools in Chrome, for example, to highlight the element in the page to inspect it.

[url= https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/36609389154_59a03f383e_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/36609389154_59a03f383e_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/XM3FWJ ]Shagger[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/alpinist-photography/ ]Rob Sutherland[/url], on Flickr

For those worried about trail erosion

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Serious question - how are people downloading the pic to mess around with it?

Easiest way is just to drag the image to the address bar.

Well I've worked in IT for over 20 years and didn't know you could do that (drag it to address bar)... not that it's something I need to do often and chances are I'll forget by the time I next need an image source quickly but hey it's not even 7:30am and I've learnt something today :p

Ewwww! Drag it the address bar?

Drag it straight into your photo software of choice cut out the middleman.

Cougar - that video is superb, I never knew cats hated cucumbers so much.

Errrrr!

True Drac.

Address bar has the advantage that you can see the original source address, which is useful for hotlinking and also sometimes lets you access higher res images (e.g. a lot of sites resize on the fly and have stuff like ?x640&y480 after the address).

Plus it just lets you get a look at the image before firing up your image editor.

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GrahamS - Member
Serious question - how are people downloading the pic to mess around with it?
Easiest way is just to drag the image to the address bar.

Very good Sir, really very very good advice there..
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Bloody mountain bikes and their trail erosion. Gerrrroooorrrfffmmmmyyyyylllaaaannn' ....
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Chrome also has 'copy image location' in the right-click menu.

I didn't know Harry Hill rode cross.

[quote=GlennQuagmire ]aracer - the image src is in the page markup. You can use developer tools in Chrome, for example, to highlight the element in the page to inspect it.

That's what I did (though my photoshop skills aren't up to bothering to submit anything), but assumed there must be an easier way - and indeed there is, thanks for the drag suggestion, that's also something I didn't know about, despite even having worked with web pages and browsers.

@molgrips - if I had a right click menu I could just select "save as" as normal, but some sneaky web page designers disable the right click menu to stop you doing that...

Quite often watermarked images on sites like this don't let you do the drag thing (or right-click, save as) as they have tried to make it deliberately difficult.
In these cases you have to inspect the code as someone mentioned and find the image path in there.

This one isn't like that though. They've disabled right-click, but the image is still available to drag.

Mike @ Racing Snakes has done the voodoo hoodoo and i'm now up there alone with the erosion 🙂

Keep 'em coming, i'm quite liking being in the peloton on the Champs Elysees in front of Froome 😀

The unintended/intended consequences of not going around the puddle:

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(next time can the OP pay the flippin £5.99 [b]first[/b] so we don't have to mess about with watermarks!)

Last one. How about Wiggins chasing you?

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Froome is shorter than he looks on TV eh muggo?

He's really far behind (pretty sure it's wiggins too and everyone knows he's tiny)