[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!

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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.