Cloning help - PLEASE !
Hi all,
I'm very annoyed with myself. I went out at the crack of dawn today to photograph Jays from a portable hide. Been after this bird for a while. I'm gutted that in my best photo I've cut the tip of the tail off. I'd really like to try and clone a section to the left of the photo, but is this possible?
I'm running photoshop Elements 10. Can someone advise or help me at all?
Thanks, Simon
A couple caveats . . . I'm not sure what the end of the tail is supposed to look like. I use Photoshop CS6 and don't have any experience, at all, with Elements. However, I did a quick search and think the same procedure I used in Photoshop will work, there. Here's what I did.
- Mask out everything but the jay on a duplicate layer and make the layer invisible.
- Go back to the original layer and draw loosely around the jay with the Lasso tool. You don't have to be precise.
- Use Edit>Fill>Content-Aware to replace the jay with the surrounding background
- Deselect the selection remaining from the Lasso tool work. (Ctrl>D works with Photoshop on a PC.)
- In the layer palette, go back to the duplicate layer, make it visible, and be sure the mask thumbnail isn't selected.
- Select the Move tool and put the jay farther into the image. When I did that, the end of the tail looked just fine -- as though you'd just barely clipped it.
Thanks for the replies and suggestions. Both looked great. with the first suggestion I'm going to struggle with that techniques as Elements 10 doesn't have a content aware fill option.
I'll try the bottom techniques but I'm not sure my skill levels are enough for that. I did try but not sure how to make to join look so seamless as the example shown here. Gutted that I clipped the wing so looks like my evening will be spent trying to sort that out. Thanks again.
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