Wire fence

[Jakeblu]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

 

[Freeman]

Jakeblu,

This is one of those images that require a lot of work if you want to make it look good. There are a couple of ways to go about this. You might have another shot from that day that has a background without a fence in it. You could replace the fenced portion of this image with something else.

The second option is a lot of cloning and patching. But you don't have to patch and clone every part of the picture. Sometime I start with a patch from a small clean area and make it into a bigger patch by repeating it. You might want to do this using different areas to patch from so the patterns don't repeat as much. There are several areas of grass in the foreground that you could duplicate and move around to cover up the fence. The area above the lions can be done the same way, but it would take a lot of work.

The discoloration in parts of the lions can be helped by painting with the brush set to "color." Try sampling from different parts of the fur in order to match the good parts. Lower opacity settings are often necessary when painting with color. After you've painted with color, you can increase the contrast in just these areas so it doesn't look so washed out.

 

[Matt K134792]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

Try de-emphasizing the fence, by masking out the background and doing a radial zoom blurs.... It takes the background fence away. Then use a soft white brush with LOW opacity 10% to lighten the dark squares.
this was a qicky try, could have used a little edge work
hope it helps
--
Regards....Matt K
' It takes me an hour and 1/2 to watch 60 minutes '

 

[Jakeblu]

Jakeblu,

This is one of those images that require a lot of work if you want
to make it look good. There are a couple of ways to go about this.
You might have another shot from that day that has a background
without a fence in it. You could replace the fenced portion of
this image with something else.

The second option is a lot of cloning and patching. But you don't
have to patch and clone every part of the picture. Sometime I
start with a patch from a small clean area and make it into a
bigger patch by repeating it. You might want to do this using
different areas to patch from so the patterns don't repeat as much.
There are several areas of grass in the foreground that you could
duplicate and move around to cover up the fence. The area above
the lions can be done the same way, but it would take a lot of work.

The discoloration in parts of the lions can be helped by painting
with the brush set to "color." Try sampling from different parts
of the fur in order to match the good parts. Lower opacity
settings are often necessary when painting with color. After
you've painted with color, you can increase the contrast in just
these areas so it doesn't look so washed out.

Thanks for the advice Freeman. I suposse I already knew the answer but I had hoped there may have been an easier way.

Thanks

Jakeblu

 

[Jakeblu]

Try de-emphasizing the fence, by masking out the background and
doing a radial zoom blurs.... It takes the background fence away.
Then use a soft white brush with LOW opacity 10% to lighten the
dark squares.
this was a qicky try, could have used a little edge work
hope it helps
--
Regards....Matt K
' It takes me an hour and 1/2 to watch 60 minutes '

That looks really good. I will try on my copy an see how it looks

Thanks

Jakeblu

 

[Matt K134792]

Try de-emphasizing the fence, by masking out the background and
doing a radial zoom blurs.... It takes the background fence away.
Then use a soft white brush with LOW opacity 10% to lighten the
dark squares.
this was a qicky try, could have used a little edge work
hope it helps
--
Regards....Matt K
' It takes me an hour and 1/2 to watch 60 minutes '

That looks really good. I will try on my copy an see how it looks

Thanks

Jakeblu

Post it when its done, I wish I had more time this morning to get those edges out....great shot by the way
--
Regards....Matt K
' It takes me an hour and 1/2 to watch 60 minutes '

 

[Shari B]

Jakeblu,

Is this what you were talking abou, removing the fence in front of your image? (This is a rough image - not a finished image.)



If so, the image I posted still needs work but it was done basically with clone, duplicate, levels, layers, blur, etc. It will take awhile to make it look decent, but it can be done.

Shari

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

 

[Shari B]

Let's try that link again:



Shari

Is this what you were talking abou, removing the fence in front of
your image? (This is a rough image - not a finished image.)



If so, the image I posted still needs work but it was done
basically with clone, duplicate, levels, layers, blur, etc. It
will take awhile to make it look decent, but it can be done.

Shari

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

 

[Jakeblu]

Is this what you were talking abou, removing the fence in front of
your image? (This is a rough image - not a finished image.)

If so, the image I posted still needs work but it was done
basically with clone, duplicate, levels, layers, blur, etc. It
will take awhile to make it look decent, but it can be done.

Shari

Thats exactly what I was talking about.

Thats a great job, thanks for all you time and effort. I see its the clone tool tonight.

Jakeblu

 

[qajfat]

Jakeblu
If you want only the front fence removed, well I did that very easily by:
1.Duplicate image, select/color range/sampled colors and pick the fence.
2.Ctrl-J to create another layer from the selection.

3.Play with levels,colour balance and hue/saturation until you have blended it to the background.

This is the result I got after only a few minutes works - I'm sure if you play with it more you will definitely get a lot better result!



Hope that helps.

Lawrence

Is this what you were talking abou, removing the fence in front of
your image? (This is a rough image - not a finished image.)

If so, the image I posted still needs work but it was done
basically with clone, duplicate, levels, layers, blur, etc. It
will take awhile to make it look decent, but it can be done.

Shari

Thats exactly what I was talking about.

Thats a great job, thanks for all you time and effort. I see its
the clone tool tonight.

Jakeblu

 

[Toad]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

Jakeblu:

You have already got some pretty good advice for removing the front fence. With the back fence, I think you probably want to select everything above the line where the ground meets the fence and replace it completely with another image - a skyscape or other unobtrusive background - the far fence involves too much detail to clone out.

Best
T

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[Jakeblu]

Thanks everbody for your help. I have acouple of different options to try which will keep me busy for a while.

Jakeblu

 

[lis]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

Jakeblu:

How I did this was to select color range sampled colors on the wire in the foreground and made layer via copy> set blend mode to color burn at 100 > adjust color balance midtones (yellow/blue) to 0 0 -89 flattened image> used the burn tool at 18% to darken some of the lighter areas and the sharpen tool to bring out some of the grass that remained blurred under the wire.

Hope this helps.

http://www.pbase.com/image/15892749

Lisa

 

[feivel]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.

I can't clone well but I think you could get a nice image with some good cloning and blurring



feivel

 

[abwhitt]

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.

Didn't finish it, but here's what I have done, just takes time, but it is acheivable.

 

[Kent C]

Lots of cloning on the fence. On the lions you can sample where the coat is good and use a soft brush at @70% opacity with blend set at color and normal, you can get rid of most of the haze. Also did that in the foreground grass. On the head of the lion on the right, I selected by lasso and run a curve, setting about four points all down - darker.
--
Kent
http://www.pbase.com/kentc

 

[cadmandew]

Heres my Try..Im at work sooo this is a sloppy 5 min fix..I could spend the time to line up the fence which I dont think would be to hard....But the only tools I used was the patch tool and my dodge and burn brush.



cadmandew

 

[Jakeblu]

Heres my Try..Im at work sooo this is a sloppy 5 min fix..I could
spend the time to line up the fence which I dont think would be to
hard....But the only tools I used was the patch tool and my dodge
and burn brush.

cadmandew

Wow, this forum is absolutly amazing, I never expected such a response. Thank you all very much for the time and effort taken to produce such excellent work.

Not be able to work on the pic until the weekend now but I am looking forward to my attempt.

Jakeblu

 

[s.d.]

Here is my try. I used minimal cloning. Mostly levels, selective color, saturation, and burning. What do you think?

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on the best way to remove
the wire fence from this pic.



I used the smallest app poss on my fuji602 but the fence is still
intrusive.

I had thought about cloning but there seems to be too much work
involved and using the burn tool makes it look worse.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. While its not a great pic
it was the only lion pic I managed on the day.

Thanks

Jakeblu

--
s.d.

 

[Bud Guinn]

s.d.

Nice job...I'd like to learn this way of doing it.

I don't believe I've seen your name before....may I be the first to welcome you. And if you've been around forever, then cut me some slack because I'm really old and stupid.

but seriously welcome and share some of your stuff.

--
bud guinn....FCAS charter member
sony.nikon
http://www.pbase.com/budguinn/root
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