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Cloning?

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  • 30-04-2007 11:03am
    #1
    sineadw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. Is it possible to clone or otherwise remove the annoying cable from this shot?

    478183326_2e1cc04eeb_b.jpg


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    Paulw
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 13,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    A very slow, careful tedious job of cloning out the cable would work. It just takes time.

    I might give it a try later, and see how I get on.


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    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Brickwork is actually really easy to clone over as it's all one big pattern. Around the arch is a little tricksy - I could remove it, but I think the juxtaposition is fine as-is.

    I also bleached it and burned in the shadows around the arch to make the cables less obvious:

    478380491_b401025178_o.jpg


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    sineadw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Ah now you see that looks much better! Any chance you'd talk through that when you have a chance Mark? I can't seem to get to grips with cloning. Is it the clone stamp tool? Normal presets?


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    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    Just create a new layer and set the clone tool to "current layer and below" and start cloning. Bleaching took a good bit more work. I've toned down my action to produce less contrast, added another soft light layer on top of that to darken the image, and a deep blue colour filter to shift the colours.

    After that I dodged midtones and burnt shadows to edge the bricks and lettering like they are and lastly ran it through Lightroom to tweak the colours


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    sineadw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Not quite, but getting there :D Thanks Mark! That was a great help.

    478444400_3fea791621_b.jpg


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    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I think you overdid the burning a little, but it's nice start Sinead.


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    #8
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Heal brush for the win. Its magic.


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    #9
    sineadw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Just looking at the healing brush now.. Hmm! Off to find tutorials... Yep Mark - I had the image open at 16% or something. Looking at it full size I can see the over-burning. Gotta remember that one :)


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    Paulw
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 13,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    I actually have loads of video tutorials. I had a year's subscription to Digital Photo magazine, and have all the video tutorials.

    If anyone wants to borrow, let me know.


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    elven
    Registered Users Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭elven


    The only time I manage to use the healing brush is if I'm working on an area with no pattern or a random one. If you go near an edge with it, it gets all mixed up with what's supposed to be dark or light and I get a lot of that funny feathery bleeding going on. Is there a trick to using it on edges that I'm missing?


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