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I have a friend who took a snapshot with her 13yr old son and you can imagine how hard it is to get a good pic with a teen like that! Well it's a cute shot - except that the shot has this ugly printing on the shirt.
Can someone give me the steps to remove that? Or do I need to post the pic for you?

kenw · 12-07-2009, 09:02 PM

the clone tool is your friend. It will take some work (match tones, wrinkles, shadows, etc) but it would be the best way.

Rson · 12-07-2009, 11:01 PM

Clone is for rookies. [snicker, snicker]

Use the patch tool, select it, move to a cleaner part of the shirt.

JohnT · 12-07-2009, 11:05 PM

Yeah, the Patch tool for sure. Then you can use the Clone tool to clean up any spots that look strange.

TenderMomentsPhotography · 12-08-2009, 12:51 PM

Uh oh - I better post this pic and let you play with it guys - I dont think patching or maybe even cloning will work. This face is GINORMOUS! Very ugly! Haha!
Ill be back in a bit with an image!:)

texxter · 12-08-2009, 01:39 PM

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I have a friend who took a snapshot with her 13yr old son...

I don't mean to be contrarian, but the son is easily available and this picture is a snapshot, why go thru the trouble of doctoring the picture instead of taking another one? Even if 13 year old boys are hard to photograph, it's not as hard as using photoshop to clean a snapshot, me thinks.

TenderMomentsPhotography · 12-08-2009, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by texxter

I don't mean to be contrarian, but the son is easily available and this picture is a snapshot, why go thru the trouble of doctoring the picture instead of taking another one? Even if 13 year old boys are hard to photograph, it's not as hard as using photoshop to clean a snapshot, me thinks.

Dont get me wrong - I full heartedly agree with you on this! It's not my pic and not my kid. She said she loves this particular pic but wants no crap on the shirt...I told her I would play with it. I will post it in a couple hours for yall (working on editing a session and really shouldn't be on here right now! LOL!)
I may just offer to shoot a pic of them when I go up there next (she is in Dallas) and tell her to scrap this one.

ronocnikral · 12-08-2009, 04:04 PM

i hope you are getting paid to do all this. for clients who do stupid things like this we charge them double.

i agree with paco. reshoot if it is huge. and in the future, especially for friends, point out boneheaded moves before you start snapping away. use your professional judgement to know what people won't like and to point them out beforehand.

things that can be changed/altered before you take the picture, need to be changed beforehand, not in photoshop. you'll pile up a photoshop laundry list if you don't communicate that to your clients.

KenJulio · 12-08-2009, 04:33 PM

A snapshot will be something spontaneous and will be hard to reproduce. The 13yo may have an attention span similar to the life span of a fly. I'd figure if it were posed, do a reshoot, I dont think you can ask the son and mother to, reproduce that snapshot.

My 2 cents

texxter · 12-08-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ken74

A snapshot will be something spontaneous and will be hard to reproduce. The 13yo may have an attention span similar to the life span of a fly. I'd figure if it were posed, do a reshoot, I dont think you can ask the son and mother to, reproduce that snapshot.

My 2 cents

Agreed. If it's a snapshot, what is the problem with the tshirt to be what it is? I dont know what's going on here, but it seems bizarre to me to want to do major postprocessing a snapshot of a son, which could be redone, I guess.

TenderMomentsPhotography · 12-08-2009, 05:52 PM

First off - I had no hand in this picture at all or the taking of it! The mother has a hell of a time getting this kid to smile without looking forced - and when they were at a lake - the kd actually smiled in a nice way. She asked me to look at it as a favor and I told her I would. I though maybe I could learn something in the process of retouching it.
Now - here is the image. Yes - it's a snap shot and could be "retaken" but his forced smiles are not what she wanted apparently and this worked. I dunno.

If I had shot this - I would have done a lot of things different - but she is just a mom with a camera.

KenJulio · 12-08-2009, 06:18 PM

Shelley - is this the original file?

BTW....that is a big face lol

Rson · 12-08-2009, 06:53 PM

I will play with it tonight....will yo uemail the full sized to rich.reierson@verizon.net

tropicpine · **Heres a quick and dirty edit -** 12-08-2009, 11:15 PM

TenderMomentsPhotography · 12-09-2009, 01:51 PM

Thats the full sized image that she sent to me.
Tropic Pine - that's definatly closer than I could get it myself!

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