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[h1]Removing Unwanted People[/h1]Have some great photos, but they happen to have your ex-girlfriend/boyfriend in them? Not a problem! This tutorial will show you how to remove them from the photo once and for all.

Here is an example of what we will be doing:


Note:
The difficulty depends on the complexity of the background in your photograph.

1. Stamp out.
 a. Select the Clone Stamp . Start with a soft brush, decently sized. I used 21 pixel brush size.

 b. Make a copy of the background layer! This is important!
 c. Hold Alt and click an open area in the background, release alt and begin painting over the person you want to remove.
 Screen Shot
 d. You will need to alt+click more than once, try to use areas which have the same lighting levels. You don't want to alt+click a shadowed area to paint over where it should be lit up.
 e. Use harder brushes when getting close to the person you want to keep in the photo. I used a 5 pixel brush size.

 Screen Shot

2. Rebuilding lost parts. Probably the hardest part... depending on how hard your background was of course .
 a. Using the same technique, you can rebuild the persons body. In the photo I used for this tutorial the woman was leaning on the man, so I had to rebuild his shoulder.
 b. You can start by cloning or painting in with an eye dropped color to build the basic shape of the missing section.

Note:
If your clothing is dark, like in this case, a simple trick is to add a new brightness/contrast layer to make it a bit easier to see. To do this, click the "Create new fill or adjustment layer" button on the bottom of the layers pallet, choose Brightness/Contrast from the menu.

 c. As you can see, I cloned mine and it is a bit haphazard. Now we are going to clean it up. Instead of randomly alt+clicking, select specific locations. We are going to contine the natural folds in the clothing which are already there.
 Screen Shot
And you can see here, after I have cleaned it up a bit, that it looks much nicer.
 Screen Shot

3. File > Save... That about wraps it up.

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about time

nice tut SKETCHi

* removes sketchi from all my pictures*.. good tut.. just time consuming

Not any more he doesn't... he removed me

LOL
good tut Sketchi!

nice tut

Lol... sure Rocco, right after I rub some old lamp or find a midget under a rainbow with a pot of gold...

Wow, that IS a great tut.  Thanks, SKETCHi