Yo, what's up?
Today, I'm coming at you with another Snapseed tutorial
So, I wanted to preface this tutorial with the fact that
Snapseed is only good for removing one person
or small objects
and not a crowd of people
If you're looking to remove a large group of people
I would recommend Photoshop over Snapseed
Sometimes I like to use the Patch tool in Facetune to clean things up a bit
So if you're looking to see a tutorial on that, or how I remove people in Photoshop
Just let me know in the comments
Alright, let's get started
The first step is the Healing tool
It's going to remove unwanted objects or people from your shot
There's 3 people in this shot that I'd like to remove
but I'm going to show you on this guy over here
It's not too bad, as you can see, the pole is completely removed
Edges are a little jagged, but if you just go over them
You can kind of even them out a little bit
I find that when you're doing it in tiny areas, it makes it a lot easier to control
versus doing a big blob at once
I'm going to leave it at that for now
I'm going to go ahead and click the checkmark
Of course we're not going to leave it like this
Because there's obviously a missing gap where the pole used to be
In the second step, we're going to use double exposure to add the pole back
You can use this tool for a variety of different reasons
I like to use it to add extra grain to make my photo appear more vintage
You can also use it to change the background completely
So what I'm going to do here, is I'm going to recreate the missing pole
Go to tools, Double Exposure
Click on the left bottom icon to add an overlay
Then what we're going to do is use the exact same photo we used to edit
As you can see, you can rotate it and scale it to whatever size you want
In this case, I'm going to try to line up the pole from the overlay photo
to the original
That's a pretty good match
Now I'm going to go ahead and click the tear drop icon on the right
This is where you can change the opacity of your overlay
Because the pole is opaque
I'm going to set the opacity to 100%
And this is where you can check the placement of the pole
so that everything is in check
So once everything is good to go, go ahead and click the checkmark
Now, don't be alarmed with your missing original photo
we're going to go back and fix things
So, let's go to the undo tool
but instead of clicking undo, we're going to click View Edits
Click on the Double Exposure you just added
and click on the middle icon
Here is where you can adjust the opacity of the overlay you just added
So, in this case, if you click the little ying yang symbol on the left
it'll show the outline of the photo that you added on top of the original one
And you want the double exposure to be at 0
'cause what we're going to do, is we're going to erase everything
but the pole that we're adding.
As I'm erasing the overlay
the original photo comes back into appearance.
You can also zoom into the photo, so you get a more precise erase line
and I'm going to make sure that I'm not erasing the pole
I like to do this when I'm on the go, or travelling
especially if I don't have my laptop on me
Obviously using Photoshop will be a lot quicker
and you'll probably get a more precise removal
but this is just one of the ways,
It doesn't have to be perfect, I'm a little bit of a perfectionist
so I like to zoom in and go right to the edge, just so I know I'm not missing anything
but because the photo is a little bit far
in this case it really doesn't matter too much
Keep erasing, keep erasing
Now, if you find that you erased an area like so
that you didn't want to erase, you just increase the exposure
up to 100, and go over the same area that you accidentally erased
and it'll come right back.
So even if you make a mistake, you can always fix it real easily
Alright, here we go
So, that looks like it's about good to go
So I'm going to go ahead and check, and click on the checkmark
That's not too bad
If I zoom out, it looks like the pole was always there and there wasn't a person to begin with
But, because I'm such a perfectionist
You see here with the jagged sidewalk
If you wanted to clean up the edges you can
I'm going to go ahead and do that, so click on the Healing tool again
We're going to see if we can clean up the sidewalk a little bit
It still looks a little bit rough. If you still wanted to clean things up a little bit more
What I like to do is use the brush tool
Because this area is a little bit darker than the actual sidewalk in the photo
I'm going to use the Dodge & Burn tool
and lighten the area
and then to ensure that the lines are a little bit smoother
I'm going to turn Dodge & Burn down to -10
and see if I can darken these edges a little bit
You can adjust it to however you'd like
Until you're completely satisfied with your removal
So I hold down on the photo
Before, after
Honestly, that's a pretty good job without Photoshop
I must say myself
So, there you have it! That's one way to remove a person in Snapseed using only 2 tools
Healing and Double Exposure
If you're lucky, you don't even have to use the Double Exposure tool
You can just use Healing
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