Dominic Deacon
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On the far left of your screen you have a toolbar that has your erasers and brushes etc. At the top of that there’s a symbol shaped like an arrow. After you’ve dropped in your image select that. Now just move your cursor to the corner of the image and click and drag to resize it. If you hold down shift while you drag the image will maintain the same proportions as when you dropped it in.
Youtube is awesome for this stuff. On youtube you can just search photoshop and whatever you’re looking for an answer to and there will be an in depth tutorial which I’m sure is handier than instructions like mine above. Here’s one for resizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrw2OBDQFo
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Is it a strong colour? If the colour that you need to replace is similar to the backdrop in the photo then you should be able to just select the background with the pen, the lasso or- if your lucky- just the colour select tool and then paint over the old backdrop with the colour you want. If the backdrop is very different then your mask has to be excellent and that method is probably not worth your time but it’s a process I use on most photographs I take (even though I don’t have to hit a certain specified colour) as it just neatens up the backdrop nicely.
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Mines a cheap, overclocked PC I built myself. Got all the pieces at bargain prices from slightly dodgy grey market sources (but still under warranty). Was a bit worried as it was my first time putting one together but turned out to be incredibly easy and has never once crashed in 6 months use which is a record for me.
i7 running at 4.5ghz
gtx 970
32gb of ddr4 RAM
solid state drive for the operating system and 3tb hardrive internal for important stuff with a ton of external harddrives, that are not managed half as well as they should be, all hanging around on the back of the desk. Maybe not the fastest kit ever built but, hey, it can run an occulus rift and I don’t think a $12k mac pro is up to the job.Work computer and home computer are the same. I’ve tried laptops and tablets but I don’t have the patience to use anything that’s not always fast.
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As a beauty photographer I got to say that’s the coolest thing I’ve seen all day.
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I would suspect then that the JPEG is fine and it’s an issue with your photo viewer. I have a wide gamut monitor that often plays silly tricks with JPEGs in the viewer. An easy check would be to upload the photo to facebook or photobucket or something and then view it in a colour managed app like Firefox or Chrome.
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Just curious, if you open the saved JPEG in photoshop does it look correct?
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[steve wilson] “If my memory serves me well, in the video a person cutout or removed an image.”
Sorry just a bit unclear, did he cut out the image with a layer mask or by, say, using the eraser. If you’ve just erased out parts of an image I’m pretty the only way to get it back is by using the “undo” button.
If he was using a layer mask then just click on the mask in the layers panel and use a white brush to paint back in and a black brush to paint image out.
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Apologies if this is too obvious but you mention it is an error that occurs after you add a new layer. Is there anything in the new layer? The patch tool and the healing brush generally won’t do anything if the layer is blank as new layers are by default. If ythe layer is blank but you want to use the healing brush anyway you have to make sure you have the “sample all layers” button ticked.
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I think your question is possibly a little bit broad for people to want to tackle. What you’re talking about is a lot of different techniques that can’t really be summarised easily in a forum like this. I would definitely say that youtube is amazing for learning these sorts of things. This example for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27X2bx_84CY wasn’t shot on a greenscreen but does cover a lot of the techniques you would use to do what you want to do.
One thing I would say if you’re just starting out is that a greenscreen can be tricky at first as it’s highly reflective and tends to be very reactive to the light. It’s probably not really necessary as you can just cut out the figure as shown in the above tutorial. I’d also say that the less you need to photoshop into your image the better. For instance if you can get an army costume from a costume shop then that is much better than manipulating a green outfit in photoshop into being one. For sure it’s possible but you probably don’t want to have to do that.
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I can’t get it looking perfect because the quality of the image is too low res and there’s only a blocky path for the magnetic lasso to follow. But what I did certainly worked in theory.
Using the magnetic lasso trace around the outside of the area to be cleared. Then go select/modify/contract and by trial and error select the amount you need to contract the selection so that your black lines will be the right width. On this upload it was 9 pixels, obviously on a better res version it will be a lot more. Then just erase the selection.
