Removing the new world from the old world.

I'm having a lot of fun with the new Adobe remove tools. I'm always frustrated touring old world Euro towns and having great scenes ruined by tons of new world junk. Signs, power poles and wires, cars, etc. This sample took a long time to do. While Generative AI remove is great, it's not perfect and often requires a little hand cloning to clean up. But it's worth it.

You missed the lamp post at the far end of the street.

Did you intentionally leave the overhead wire shadows on the road?

Its almost like a Waldo thingy...lol

-M

You’ve done a pretty good job with that, I admire your patience. Did you replace the sky too?

Dave

Lensmate said:

Did you intentionally leave the overhead wire shadows on the road?

Its almost like a Waldo thingy...lol

-M

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If you showed that some to someone and not them told there were wires they'd probably think it as dirt off a cart or something. I spend a few months in Portugal and often don't take shots because I didn't want to spend hours editing. Now that this is much easier I'm looking forward to taking some of those. I don't need perfection, just the obvious distracting junk removed. We'll see though. I do have lots of time.

I posted this before. I was replacing a baseboard heater so I put the old one here while I was waiting for the new one. Then I needed a shot of this room and I didn't feel like moving it. At one time this would have taken me a while and I probably would have given up. One swipe and gone.









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Funny how millions of people on an internet platform where they can communicate instantaneously with people on the other side of the world using incredibly powerful handheld computers linked to orbiting the satellites hundreds of miles in space don’t believe in science. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nice work.

Zeee said:

Lensmate said:

Did you intentionally leave the overhead wire shadows on the road?

Its almost like a Waldo thingy...lol

-M

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If you showed that some to someone and not them told there were wires they'd probably think it as dirt off a cart or something. I spend a few months in Portugal and often don't take shots because I didn't want to spend hours editing.

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Portugal has lots of annoying distractions in front of some of those beautiful buildings. Especially the road signage. Ugh!

Where you there when the funicular crashed?

-M

Lensmate said:

Zeee said:

Lensmate said:

Did you intentionally leave the overhead wire shadows on the road?

Its almost like a Waldo thingy...lol

-M

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If you showed that some to someone and not them told there were wires they'd probably think it as dirt off a cart or something. I spend a few months in Portugal and often don't take shots because I didn't want to spend hours editing.

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Portugal has lots of annoying distractions in front of some of those beautiful buildings. Especially the road signage. Ugh!

Where you there when the funicular crashed?

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No. We were there in Feb/Mar. That was terrible. We've been on the one in Porto quite a few times.

So not a shot I'd use but I did get a nice B&W of the church further down. I had to find this shot, edit and post it all since my last few posts.

Alte. There person in the bottom and other distractions including a satellite dish.



Also applied Adobe Adaptive profile and no other edits.

Lensmate said:

-M

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Funny how millions of people on an internet platform where they can communicate instantaneously with people on the other side of the world using incredibly powerful handheld computers linked to orbiting the satellites hundreds of miles in space don’t believe in science. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Never trust photos when considering visiting a location. Before we visited mostly Lisbon, I saw photos that looked like your modifications. When we toured there were more distractions including graffiti than any pics showed. However, we still greatly enjoyed the visit and most of my pics showed what we saw.

greg

Nice work! The new removal and selection tools are solid gold. Another suggestion in addition to removing the lamp post and shadow on the street: Select the area shown here, open a Curves adjustment layer, and pull the highlights in to about 190. The most interesting area of this photo is the details along that whitewashed front. This will pop them out.



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Harwood
(Formerly HarwoodF. That acc't locked up on me, so I had to create a new one.)

The remove tools came out right after I visited the place pictured, Trullo I think, unless there is a similar place somewhere else which would not surprise me.

Had much fun doing exactly the same thing.

Now when I'm dragged to the usual massively over-crowed tourist haunts I think about what you can get rid of in post but not in real life.

Redcrown said:

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Sounds like you're using LR. Now slide the whites slider to the right





Can't tell you how many times I feel the same way. You can only take some many New/Old comparison photos with 1000 year old buildings with satellite tv dishes showing

I probably would not remove the woman. She does not look that bad. I mean she is not cut in 73/1849 (and what are you gonna do with that?) or with her head 79,8% cut off. Her colours are not distracting either. If such things (people) mattered to me as they do, I would have waited 10 seconds to take a clean shot. OK, easier said than done. We are where and when we are now.

Regarding the antenna. I think it is placed in the right place and adds to the composition. I understand it is not from circa XVIII c. like the buildings around but I actually like it where it is. The sky is empty and uninteresting after the removal. I would remove an object if:

• I did not like the antenna's location in the picture,
• the antenna were small (not important with no value added to the picture),
• the antenna were placed akwardly e.g. near the edge or only half visible.

I am rarely bothered by the new stuff in historical environments. It is what it is. If people live there, antennas do happen. Sometimes I take pictures of wires etc. There is some beauty in the chaos.

On edits. I think high luminousity and low contrast photos with clear sky blues work well for towns in Southern Europe e.g. Cadiz in Spain (called a white city). You have darkened the photo and increased the contrast. I kind of like the original better. But I was not there and I am not you.