RE: [photoshop-beginners] Fw: Ask Tim Grey - Removing People - December 18, 2012

Recently, I do not remember where, I saw a  website that did this to remove traffic from a series of stop-motion images of a busy street.  The artist wound up with a picture of a busy street with no traffic.  They took it one step further, they used this image as an overlay of a stop-motion animation of the street. The overlay had everything but the street masked out.  The result was a video of a bustling street, except no traffic.  It was eerie to say the least.  They did this in various cities around the world.  A lot of work, but well worth it J

 

JohnW

 

 

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There are some interesting videos in this newsletter today..  click on the link.   Nancy H.

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In Today's Email: Save on "Creating Composites in Photoshop" Today's Question: Removing People Pixology Magazine

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Today's question relates to the creation of composite images in Photoshop, and serves as a great opportunity for me to remind you one last time that if you act now you can save 20% off my "Creating Composites in Photoshop" course. Just enter COMPOSITES20 in the Coupon Code field during checkout from my video2brain online store. You can view sample lessons, get more information, or place your order here: https://partner.video2brain.com/timgrey/course-50065.htm

Today's Question: In your new video, Creating Composites in Photoshop, you have a segment on the use of a feature in Photoshop Extended to remove people from a composite shot of a old staircase on a rock cliff. Two questions: Is there a technique that can be used in Photoshop [Standard] to achieve this? Should the Extended version be a first choice for the serious photographer and user of Photoshop?

Tim's Answer: As the question indicates, in my "Creating Composites in Photoshop" video training course, I do demonstrate a technique for blending multiple images in Photoshop Extended to remove whatever has changed among the photos. In the example, I used the technique to remove people from a scene. You can view that sample lesson free in my video2brain online store here: https://partner.video2brain.com/timgrey/video-20365.htm While Photoshop Extended does make this task remarkably easy, it can still be done in the standard version of Photoshop. The initial process is the same with either approach. Start by capturing multiple images of a scene (using a tripod of course), capturing enough frames that every position in the photo is free of people in at least one frame. Then bring those frames into a single document in Photoshop. If you're using Lightroom to manage your images you can select the multiple photos and choose Photo > Edit In > Open as Layers in Photoshop. If you're using Bridge in conjunction with Photoshop you can select Tools > Photoshop > Load Files into Photoshop Layers from the menu to accomplish the same thing. Next, for all but the bottom layer on the Layers panel, add a layer mask that is filled with black. To do so, click on each thumbnail in turn, then hold the Alt key on Windows or the Option key on Macintosh while clicking on the Add Layer Mask button (the circle inside of a square icon) at the bottom of the Layers panel. This will cause each layer to effectively disappear, hidden due to the layer mask. Next, reveal each layer one by one to determine which portions of the image it will improve. In other words, compare each layer with the underlying layer to see which areas of the upper layer exhibit no people where the underlying image does contain people. Those are the areas you want to add to the overall result from the layer you're evaluating. To perform this comparison, simply hold the Shift key while clicking on the thumbnail for the layer mask for the layer. This will toggle the effect of the layer mask, so you are able to see and then not see the image, since the layer mask is what is causing the layer to be hidden. At this point you can use the Brush tool with a soft-edged brush to paint with white on the layer mask for the image layer you've just evaluated, adding "clear" portions of the image to the underlying scene. Repeat this process for each of the layers until you've removed all people from the scene. I realize this sounds a bit complicated, and to some extent it is. But once you've gotten familiar with the basic process it is rather straightforward and can be performed quite quickly. And don't forget, if you use Coupon Code COMPOSITES20 today you can save 20% off "Creating Composites in Photoshop". Get started here: https://partner.video2brain.com/timgrey/course-50065.htm And as for Photoshop Extended, I would say that for most photographers there's no need to even consider this more advanced (and more expensive) version of Photoshop. The additional benefits are relatively few in number, and mostly of interest only to photographers performing very specialized (and generally scientific) photographic tasks. While there are some interesting and cool additional features in Photoshop Extended, I can do everything I ever need to do with an image using the standard version of Photoshop.

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