Picture day at The Old Mill
Apr 20, 2019 20:18:51 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
It was a beautiful Saturday and people were out making pictures. The Old Mill was C-R-O-W-D-E-D crowded. I set up on a tripod and made the picture below labeled "Before". Keeping the same setup and settings I made eleven more shots at intervals of a couple of minutes allowing the crowd to move around. Back at home I loaded all twelve images into Photoshop Elements as layers. With the top layer selected I used the Lasso tool (feathered to 3 pixels) to draw selections around the people on that layer and pressed backspace. This deleted the selections and the people on that layer leaving a "hole" to see through to the layer below it. I selected the next layer below and where people on that layer were showing through the hole I repeated the process. After working down through seven layers I had all the people removed from the image. I hid the unused layers and saved it as a JPEG. After applying a high pass filter the result is shown below as the "After" image.
Apr 20, 2019 20:51:50 #
Well, how brilliant is that?! So, there was nobody parked in one spot for so long that you had to resort to cloning? 
Apr 20, 2019 21:09:40 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
Linda From Maine wrote:
Well, how brilliant is that?! So, there was nobody parked in one spot for so long that you had to resort to cloning?
Correct... No cloning! W
H (But it wasn't original with me.)Apr 20, 2019 21:11:31 #
Apr 20, 2019 21:11:35 #
Apr 20, 2019 21:22:11 #
Guyserman wrote:
That's OK; it was to me. Or just part of my "new normal" where a lot of stuff I used to know, but forgot, is coming back around again as shiny-new ... (But it wasn't original with me.)
Apr 20, 2019 23:41:44 #
Guyserman wrote:
It was a beautiful Saturday and people were out ma... (show quote)
Guyserman, I'm sure some people here may have heard about this before,
but I didn't and all I can say is "Genius!" Thank you so much for sharing.
Tim
Apr 21, 2019 05:37:00 #
Apr 21, 2019 06:09:09 #
Nice job on the edit. It's a different twist from how I learned this and so I will have to add it to my tool box.
Another way of doing this would have been to add a mask on they layer that had some people in it and then with your foreground color set to Black, use a brush and paint away the people. You can control the blend much easier and it's a non-destructive edit. If you make a mistake, just switch your foreground color to White, ( Hint: Hit your X key on your keyboard) and paint away the mistake. Again, nice edit. Thanks for educating me on a different way of arriving at the same destination.
Another way of doing this would have been to add a mask on they layer that had some people in it and then with your foreground color set to Black, use a brush and paint away the people. You can control the blend much easier and it's a non-destructive edit. If you make a mistake, just switch your foreground color to White, ( Hint: Hit your X key on your keyboard) and paint away the mistake. Again, nice edit. Thanks for educating me on a different way of arriving at the same destination.
Apr 21, 2019 07:39:27 #
Apr 21, 2019 08:54:53 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
Thanks, all. Jesus Ramirez has a tutorial on this using full blown Photoshop. It was much easier. I think Photoshop has a special tool for this. It compares all layers and where the pixels are all the same it retains it. If a pixel was different from all the others it discards it, all done automatically. So I just figured out a way to do it with Elements.
Apr 21, 2019 09:00:49 #
Apr 21, 2019 09:02:51 #
Guyserman wrote:
Thanks, all. Jesus Ramirez has a tutorial on this using full blown Photoshop. It was much easier. I think Photoshop has a special tool for this. It compares all layers and where the pixels are all the same it retains it. If a pixel was different from all the others it discards it, all done automatically. So I just figured out a way to do it with Elements.
You wouldn't happen to have the PSTC link for that tutorial would you?
Apr 21, 2019 09:16:26 #
MCHUGH
Loc: Jacksonville, Texas
Great tech that I did not know about. I remove people from vacation shots but always with clone or stamp. Did simular things back in the film days with super long exposulars. I really do like digital cameras and PSE.
Apr 21, 2019 10:10:34 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
Fstop12 wrote:
You wouldn't happen to have the PSTC link for that tutorial would you?
I'll have to look for it. I'm about to leave for church and lots of family here this afternoon. Check back this evening.
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