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The photos above show how we finished our customer request: "I would like some work done on this photo. Please remove the girl on the left. The portion of my shoulder she is covering needs to be recreated. You may rearrange the background as needed. I have one small request. The base of the eiffel tower by my left eye looks odd. If it's not too much trouble, could you please make the base of the tower look more like it should? You can use image attached for reference, or copy directly from them."
One may argue that, its possible with Photoshop. Yes, its a terrific application for all sorts of photo manipulation, including removing unwanted objects from photos. The downside with PhotoShop is the learning curve is particularly steep. As well, PhotoShop is definitely at the upper end of the price range for software, and probably out of reach of the average user.
To make this task easy, here is a light weight application for windows called PhotoWipe It's a basic photo editing tool that makes it easy to get rid of unwanted elements from photos.
All you need to do is:
1. Open the image to be worked on.
2. Paint over the parts to be removed black, (Uncle Bob for example), using one of the brushes which are available in a number of sizes.
3. If you make a mistake you can use the eraser tool to correct your error.
4. Use the built in preview viewer to check your work.
5. Save your new file.
Online photo editing and manipulation tools that you should know about
The preview of Photoshop Express at the Photoshop World conference caused masses of interest on blogs and news sites around the world. It really is very hard to see why there is a big fuss, when there is no shortage of online photo editing options out there already.
Here is a very handy roundup of some of them. Which one is the best? It really is a matter of personal choice and what you actually want to accomplish with your online tool. The tool that suits an experienced Photoshop user will be very different from a teenager who just wants to make her photos look good for her Myspace page.
Big Huge Labs - http://www.bighugelabs.com
Bubblesnaps - http://www.bubblesnaps.com
Cellsea - http://www.cellsea.com/java-cellsea/media/index.htm
Dumpr - http://www.dumpr.net
Fauxto- http://www.fauxto.com
Foto Flexer - http://www.fotoflexer.com
LookWow - http://www.lookwow.com
MorphThing - http://www.morphthing.com
My Heritage - http://www.morphthing.com
Phixr- http://www.phixr.com
picnik - http://www.picnik.com
Picture2Life - http://www.picture2life.com
Pikifx - http://www.pikifx.com
Pikistrips- http://www.pikistrips.com
Pixenate- http://www.pixenate.com
Pixer.us - http://www.pixer.us
Preloadr - http://www.preloadr.com
Slide - http://www.slide.com
Snipshot - http://www.snipshot.com
Web Resizer - http://www.webresizer.com
Wiredness - http://www.wiredness.com
Zero Flaws - http://www.zeroflaws.com
Zingfu - http://www.zingfu.com
Color Terminology
While pixels are normally stored within the computer according to their red, green,
and blue levels, this method of specifying colors (sometimes called the RGB color
space) does not correspond to the way we normally perceive and categorize colors.
There are many different ways to specify colors, but the most useful ones work by
separating out the hue, saturation, and brightness components of a color.
Primary and Secondary Colors and Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing
Primary colors are those that cannot be created by mixing other colors. Because of
the way we perceive colors using three different sets of wavelengths, there are three
primary colors. Any color can be represented as some mixture of these three primary
colors.
There are two different ways to combine colors - additive and subtractive color mixing.
Subtractive color mixing is the one most of us learned in school, and it describes
how two colored paints or inks combine on a piece of paper. The three subtractive. primaries are Cyan (blue-green), Magenta (purple-red), and Yellow (not Blue, Red,
and Yellow as we were taught).
Additive color mixing refers to combining lights of two different colors, for example
by shining two colored spotlights on the same white wall. The additive color
model is the one used in computer displays as the image is formed on the face of the
monitor by combining beams of red, green, and blue light in different proportions.
Color printers use the subtractive color model and use cyan, magenta, and yellow
inks. To compensate for the impure nature of most printing inks, a fourth color,
black is also used since the black obtained by combining cyan, magenta, and yellow
inks is often a murky dark green rather than a deep, rich black. For this and other
reasons, commercial color printing presses use a 4-color process to reproduce color
images in magazines.
Color Gamut
In the real world, the ideal of creating any visible color by mixing three primary
colors is never actually achieved. The dyes, pigments, and phosphors used to create
colors on paper or computer screens are imperfect and cannot recreate the full range
of visible colors. The actual range of colors achievable by a particular device or
medium is called its color gamut and this is mostly but not entirely determined by
the characteristics of its primary colors. Since different devices such as computer
monitors, printers, scanners, and photographic film all have different color gamuts,
the problem of achieving consistent color is quite challenging. Different media also
differ in their total dynamic range - how dark is the darkest achievable black and
how light is the brightest white.
Color Management
The process of getting an image to look the same between two or more different
media or devices is called color management, and there are many different color
management systems available today. Unfortunately, most are complex, expensive,
and not available for a full range of devices.
Hue
The hue of a color identifies what is commonly called "color". For example, all reds
have a similar hue value whether they are light, dark, intense, or pastel.
Saturation
The saturation of a color identifies how pure or intense the color is. A fully saturated
color is deep and brilliant - as the saturation decreases, the color gets paler
and more washed out until it eventually fades to neutral.
Brightness
The brightness of a color identifies how light or dark the color is. Any color whose
brightness is zero is black, regardless of its hue or saturation. There are different
schemes for specifying a color's brightness and depending on which one is used, the
results of lightening a color can vary considerably.
Luminance
The luminance of a color is a measure of its perceived brightness. The computation
of luminance takes into account the fact that the human eye is far more sensitive to
certain colors (like yellow-green) than to others (like blue).
Chrominance
Chrominance is a complementary concept to luminance. If you think of how a television
signal works, there are two components - a black and white image which
represents the luminance and a color signal which contains the chrominance information.
Chrominance is a 2-dimensional color space that represents hue and saturation,
independent of brightness.
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