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more than that if I feel like it this is the picture that we're going to be
looking at today and what we're gonna do is we are going to remove this lead so
so today what we're going to be doing is we're actually going to be doing a
request the custom request came from our facebook group if you are not a
member then do so and the picture that we're going to be working on today is
this one for Katarina Katarina has got in touch basically she was
struggling with how to remove this lead so she sent me over the raw files and if
we open up Photoshop in Camera Raw we have got that particular file as it came
out of a camera and the general tip really to avoid having to do anything
like this level of editing is to either hold at the lead at a 45 degree angle so
you're off of the dog's body directly above the dog if you're able to stand
close enough or to have the lead coming over the other side and then it's
pretty straight forward because you're just matching background and blending that
through instead of actually recreating parts of the dog this dog is just so
freaking cute so what we want to do is open up that image so i'm gonna click open
and it's gonna go ping up into Photoshop let's make that more fullscreen hoping you
guys can see this okay if you watching on a device that can please do switch to
4k if you watch this in 4k quality everything will be so much clearer so
the situation that we've got is to remove this lead now how I would do
something like this because we've got a lot of different situations going on
so really it's trial and error and I'm going to just duplicate the background
layer so that we've got that safe and sound for us the first thing that I
would probably go ahead and do is use the Spot Healing Brush to get us a rough
chunk out over here on this side so literally really rough just go like that
now obviously that looks atrocious don't worry guys gonna grab my patch tool just
circle up and over that section and drag a some background space into that I'm
gonna just pull another little bit don't really want all of that going on but I
do want some more green if we can't get green I'm going to switch to my
rectangular marquee tool which will grab this particular area and then I am gonna
get my hue and saturation what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna find within this square
the the blues essentially so that we've clicked and we've got cyan and it's
the cyans that i just want to take back a little bit and drop my saturation
and then I'm gonna move them into green there's me trying to work out where on earth
green is I should know this a bit better by now
so that has just knocked out the edge of the green we can also darken those
particular cyan areas and potentially even knock them down further I don't
really want to knock them too far out quite happy with that and then click to
unselect now we've got a base kind of thing going on over there it's not
perfect that's okay what I am going to do is I'm going to grab all of that area we've
got some green treetops over here that are are a similar focal plane away so what
I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna drop them through I mean that's pretty damn
solid so then I'm gonna grab my clone tool make it bigger we want to be on you
know reasonably high opacity 80's fine you know and just grab sort of a
middle area it doesn't want to have too much going on in it and your aim for
this really is just to blend off so don't go mad you don't need to go crazy here guys
so I've just pressed 3 to drop my opacity to 30 and I'm just
gonna take off some of the dark areas and what that has done is essentially
replaced our tree area with with some new trees okay don't worry about that
too much because more we can blend further
the next stage is this now we've got a very high contrast area so absolutely
hundred-percent what I would do is either use the clone tool or rectangular marquee so
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use a clone tool for now I'm going to grab
some bum hairs because that's what they are and as I lay it over here on the
same angle what you can see is that essentially really we need to rotate so
I'm gonna bin that off grab a rectangular marquee grab this area I'm
gonna press command C or control C if you're on a Windows and then hit command V
again whenever I say command just think control if you're on windows
gonna change it so we've basically copied that section I'm gonna kind of
try to line it up what you can do is also drop the opacity on this to see
actually that's pretty done pretty damn solid there so I'm gonna okay that in
drop that back to a hundred and put a mask on press B on my keyboard to get
the brush and then commence brushing so you want to go in at a hundred percent
on all of the edges like so and then if you need to you can then touch up a
little bit further so I'm gonna just find that edge and go a little bit
closer there because I don't really want to be cloning the trees that close to
the behind of the dog so I'm quite happy with that I'm going to merge that down
so that is you know actually part of that layer and then on our patch tool I'm
gonna do a nice big ring around there and pull from a similar distance
something there's not too much going on that's a bit green in comparison let
me zoom out so this is where we're at now do you see the difference the next
thing is this back section so realistically what I probably would do is
go ahead and use the clone tool to get the bigger chunks so if you see - look into
the background so you can see let me just get that so over here we've got
dark dark and then lighter lighter lighter lighter and then light light
right so what you can do is make sure that your cloning at a hundred percent
at first because you do need to knock out
everything in the background there you want to be cloning from the color areas
does that make sense so that is a brown area that is not a brown area that is a
light area but it moves into the darker areas so then we pull middle tone you
want to be careful of the lines so there's a line there so just watch that
line because you don't want to change the conformation of the dog I've
got a dark a ridge that goes up to the behind which is absolutely normal and
then we've got that light section so we've got a light section again I'm
gonna put that there and then you want to drop your opacity a little bit and
just start to blend in together I mean anybody who wears makeup this is kind of
just blending do you see so then the next section we would just do the exact same
thing I would however because of conformation of the dog I would just
start to bring in the lighter hair a little bit because that is a triangle
not a rectangle and then we have lost some texture because of our cloning at
lower opacity so what you can do - i'm on the wrong tool - patch tool just sort of grab
that whole area go down to a textured area drop that in there's a bit too much
texture to the fur calm yourself
remember to stay in your colors it's really important so there is just now
this line and that line is actually a very similar color to this over here and
then there's just this top section so now we've got an accurate behind of the
little puppy here so then we go to the next section now you could go ahead and
use your patch tool like so but just obviously be careful that we've got a
collar that so my make it slightly more difficult
but that's pulled really well I'm happy with that
again look where your eye goes what's not right what doesn't fit and for me it
was that section that so as we're getting a little bit closer to the
difficult section here we need to start thinking ahead what does this section
consist of how are we best placed to remove that
what would the source be because the source is so important do you see how I've
followed that line in dogs coat natural lines you want to keep everything as
natural as possible if you're not already up to speed you know on things
like dog conformation it is really worth looking into it because if you don't
know how a dog is structured it's very very difficult to then go forward and
actually apply it so this is where things are going to get tricky so let's try
some different options here so we've got fluff from the neck and the back and
this section we've got fluff from the neck and the sky so if we drop that bad
that is not a bad shout good shout I'm actually pretty happy with
that it's gone a bit too bright I'm gonna go to a darker area and we've just
got this flarey section do you see how that's like a really bright color so I'm
just gonna grab that pull it to a darker area I'm okay with not having the hair
there you need to pull some darker sections up there and what I will also
is go ahead with my burn tool going to try on mid-tones see if that gets me
where I want to go here probably want to be on shadows be very careful using
shadows okay zooming out zooming out so we've just got this bright section here
what I do want to do is try and introduce some more of that neck fluff
because we've got fluff here and that's important so this dog has got white
black and then this rich amber but up here he's got white amber and then the back
color so that gives us a little bit of a problem I'm gonna grab my patch tool
again and grab onto that go up to our bit where we've got the detail make sure
you get the edge of the hairs in that and drop that down don't worry
about that bit for now we need to make that match so I'm gonna probably pull
there you don't count you don't count that's a bit mean I'm
gonna leave the tags because the dog does have a harness on so that makes
sense if the dog did not have a harness on and no obvious collar you would go
ahead and remove that you would not leave that in okay so then the final
thing is to just clean up these lines so we go on a clone tool so I just want to
add more tufts yep the tufteness is gonna be our downfall I should do this
in small sections but I'm not going to so and then
our middle gap there they don't fit go with something simple that's good okay
right tidy up time I feel like I'm on a children's TV show which is not not what
we're doing here I make myself laugh it's pretty damn good
pretty damn good I'm gonna do some cloning to fill in some gaps because
gaps are bad pull some hair
make sure your lining up like there's a light hair at the bottom of that can you
see and we want to line up with the white hair so you wouldn't put that like
that because it wouldn't make sense you know and then I'm just gonna cover that
over soften off a bit
okie kokie so where are we before now before now we've gone up a little
bit too high on the dogs this is like dark here or like removed that dark
that's fine that's not a problem all this fine so
what we can do is you just grab that and run it there so beautiful I mean yeah
what more can we do here before now before now like some of
it's like a little dark so you can just go in with our dodge tool and bring that
up so that it's less drawing for the eye that's good we've got some little
differences in the hairs differencea are good though guys all we need to be
doing on this picture really is just finding that middle ground like we just
need to make it work we don't need to make it perfect
because no dog's coat is perfect so you don't want to be going too far into
these things and then ending up in a situation where what you've done just
really doesn't look realistic so yeah let me zoom to fit
screen before after before after before after our trees are fine if you look at
this so we're like this is a cute picture of a dog nothing over here it draws your eye
in a difficult way we could go and burn some shadows in just for effect there
but again not really needed we could drop some shadows into the coat for some
differentiation there if we wanted to and again on the back we could do the
same what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go in with a smaller brush and just run
Shadows through there as well and I mean yeah that's kind of it guys such a cute
dog such a cute dog so yeah that is how you would
remove a lead from a complex scene so use all of your tools take your time and
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