help

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks in advance
I want to remove the out of focus leaves that are in front of the owl and I am not sure how to do this in photoshop. any help will be appreciated

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Myer do you know how to do a quick mask?, you could take some feathers from the opposite side and bring them over.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Myer Jackie is correct Quick mask and some forms of cloning !! For the quick mask would suggest getting Robert O'tooles CD It is a complex procedure but once you learn will be easy to use !!

[Myer Bornstein]

Jackie, Alfred ThanksI have used Robert's Quick Mask before but only cleaning up backgrounds with same color texture, I tried the tool with the feathers, comments
Thanks

[Phil Ertel]

Hi Myer, There are probably severals ways to remove the out of focus leaves in front on the owl. However, I agree with Jackie that the using a couple of quick masks would be the way I would go about it. Using quick-masks, move tool, and the warp tool is a pretty effective way to fix problems like yours.

I posted an example of removing the problem leaves using techniques I learned from Robert O'Toole's APTATS-1.

If your not familiar with quick masking I would highly suggest checking out Robert O'Toole's APTATS-1. He has several excellent tutorials on using quick masking to enhance images. He explains the procedure in easy to understand steps. I now use these methods routinely. I feel the APTATS 1 and 2 are worth every penny (I own both and no I do not receive any compensation for the endorsement). You can find these on Arthur Morris BIrds as Art site.

Also for this repost I also toned down the light spot in the background a little. I cropped from both side to place the eye toward the rule of thirds upper right hand corner of the frame (this is just my personal preference).

Note: I did this quickly. I sure you could do a better job with the original file and a little more time.

Hope this helps.

I must have been working on this when Alfred posted. Sorry for the repeat message.

[Myer Bornstein]

Phil
Thanks
Yes I( do own Robert O'Toole's ADAPT 1 & 2 I just learning so thanks for the help
Regards

[Alfred Forns]

.. great thread !!!

Myer some of the procedures in the tutorial seem difficult but after a few tries will be easy, after learning need to do a few times every day.... will sink in !!!

[Roger Clark]

Be careful about repeating patterns. In response #4 the feathers at the lower right repeat. That is a sure sign of repetitive cloning.

Roger