hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today i'm gonna
go ahead and show you a neat little trick to
remove very very easily stuff like this piece of grass in front of the subject's eyes
so if you're new here hi there i'm jess i am a photographer person and i'm here to basically
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more than that if i feel like it and if i have time so we've got this image of bryt here taken
last night she had just gone through bombing about through heather hence why she's got all sorts of
stuff on her head this is relatively straight out of camera a little bit of highlights down
a little bit of shadows up that's kind of it as you can see we still have noise going on i'm not
that concerned about the noise in this image if you wanted to you could whizz this through topaz
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we've got this grass piece right covering straight over bryt's eye now this grass
piece here is green you can see that there is green green green green green green
right so you can see a clear strip of green and that actually helps us out so you may go ahead
and try and do some adjustments which are 100 fine and to do adjustments to correct that you could
add magenta add blue and just fine tune it to the point where you can get through it and then add a
curves to add contrast all sorts of other stuff i'm going to show you a quick way of
basically whizzing it out that you may not have considered before now this does not work for
every single instance but it's definitely worth a try because it's by far the quickest method
so what you want to go ahead and do is find a obviously coloured area of the object that's
covering the subject so for me that's probably this bit down here but you probably could go to
you know this bit over here as well any of these areas are fine this area appears a little bit too
faint for us to be able to get a good sample there so i'm going to go ahead and use this bit here
what you then want to do is grab your eyedropper so in photoshop if you just press i
on the keyboard that will get you your eyedropper if you want to go the long way round then i don't
know why but if you do that's fine grab hold of the eyedropper tool and you want to just take a
click point sample of this area now you could set this to point sample but i would prefer and would
recommend a five by five average that just means you want more pixels in there to pull a colour from
so i'm going to pick that point there which i have got that color has been placed into my
little color palette over here and then i'm going to go down to the adjustment layers
and select a solid color what that does is that puts that green the one that we literally just
picked on top of the whole image as a solid colour layer we're going to click ok on that
and we're going to go ahead and change the blend mode to and this is important subtract now with
subtract enabled it all looks a bit strange don't panic click on the mask that is next to the green
square in your case it might be a different color don't worry about it just click on the
click on the mask there then you want to invert it we do this regularly here command i command i
will invert that mask so that effect is actually not being applied anywhere on the layer at all
then what we're going to go ahead and do is grab a brush keyboard shortcut for that is b i do have
a video of keyboard shortcuts while i've got two videos of keyboard shortcuts i'll link those above
they do speed up your life if you want to go the long way round because you know you're that way
inclined go ahead and grab the brush tool you want to go ahead and change the opacity up to 100 the
flow to 100. you want the size to be well that's variable but definitely hardness down to zero so
it's super soft now i change my brush size with yep keyboard shortcuts so i will fine tune the
actual size of that by using my keyboard shortcuts that's beside the point though okay so we've got a
black mask we've got a brush we need a white paint because if you paint black on that nothing's going
to happen so we've got a white brush and we go ahead and you want to just start painting over
the areas of green right don't panic if it looks strange try if you can to stay inside the lines
just want to go down i'm not very good at staying inside the lines everybody knows that and we just
go down and you can keep going all the way down if you want you could take out all of those greeny
bits too i'm not fussy on that you can do what you want okay so when you think you've got that pretty
much done it doesn't have to be perfect right now when you've got that pretty much done you can have
a look and see if there's any other areas of that colour that you want to target so for me there's a
little bit here really little bit so i'm going to grab a brush i'm going to go to maybe 20 and i'm
just going to add a dot or two there okay so when i've done that it looks like this which looks like
bright the dog is trying to do some form of weird zorro impression don't panic don't go ahead and
change your opacity of the layer don't do that bad plan what you need to do is open up the colour so
we're going to double click and what that will do is open up our colour picker so with the colour
picker open on the screen subtract works the blend mode subtract works in a really weird way okay
so you just got to get your head around it if you make the colour that you've picked
darker the blend mode will lighten on that area so for me this is obviously too dark
compared to this so what i need to do is make my actual colour darker all right so it kind of works
on an opposite so if we want it lighter we make it darker okay so that's looking pretty good now
this is still fine we've got some green elements still hiding and peeking along through so what we
want to do is go and increase the saturation so to increase the saturation if we're on the hue
here increasing the saturation would be to shift right okay you could click the s
to shift to just the saturation view and then increase the little slider upwards there that's
totally up to you i'm gonna go ahead and do my normal way which is to just grab it in the hue and
shift right so shifting right what that does is that adds more of the opposite okay so you can see
that this part is going really quite blue this bit still staying a bit green so i'm going to
just focus on this area here for now and i'm going to back off so i'm quite happy with how that looks
for now okay so i'm going to click ok on that now we have some residual greens everybody knows i
don't like residual greens they're chilling over here what i'm going to do first though is touch
up my mask so i'm going to click my mask grab my brush and i'm going to go with quite a small brush
20% is still absolutely fine but this time i'm going to go and basically tidy up these edges
so i've got a little bit of darker area here i maybe want to take a little bit off of here
basically just neaten stuff up so i'm going to switch to black because i want to
remove the effect from these areas and i'm just gonna dot in okay so what that's doing essentially
is it's just softening off the effect in that particular area
and that will help us because it will make it basically less obvious
so tweaky tweaky tweak all the way down there it's all good and with that done we've gone
you know that far which is pretty epic by most proportions you could see that's a little bit blue
you can go ahead double click and remember desaturating that will remove the blue
you're probably happy with that for this part okay so we still have this residual green if
you wanted to handle that absolutely go for it i'm not here to stop you on that what i would do
is grab the layer duplicate it so a command j to duplicate it that will apply the exact same
thing all over again we don't technically want that so we're going to grab the brush
and grab the mask so grab the mask we're going to get a brush and we're going to be on a black
brush because this part i was happy with so i'm going to go to 100% opacity and i'm going to go
ahead and retake that back from that area okay so with that done i can then reduce the opacity
of that overall layer to calm down the effect or can go in and do our same adjustments again so
make it a little bit lighter handle the greens a little bit more there by increasing the saturation
and somewhere around there it's pretty good so i'm going to soften off this effect down
here because i don't think it needs to be on quite as strong
and you could heavy it up just a little bit in that little tiny patch and we go 20%
it's fine
and then i'll zoom out so you could go to the ends of the earth doing this but if we go ahead and
group these two layers together and rename that grass removal you can see we've been here before
what we end up with is a before and an after now if you think that that area is too dark remember
your adjustment so you can go back in to any of these layers you can switch to brightness
if it's easier for you and just make it a little bit darker same with the other one it's a little
bit darker actually i'm going to leave that where it was because i think that actually worked better
okay so now when we zoom out and look at the image as a whole we can carry on with our edit we might
need to do a little bit of a desaturation process in some areas because of the colour artifacts but
we've gone from green over the eye to no green over the eye
green over the eye to no green of the eye so give that a whirl let me know how it goes and
remember you can always add a mask to your main group and that way you can go and add and remove
this effect as you wish so if we were to add a mask to the group we can add a brush big brush
100% opacity on black to hide and we can go and add that greenery straight back in there
so it could be that you just want it just off of the face or you could want the entire strip
out whatever you wish you can have so i hope that video is helpful for you it's a bit of a strange
one definitely worth a practice because all these things help you can also obviously set all that up
as an action i will drop the action for this into the membership community because i think
it will be useful for you guys so i'll have an action for you guys linked from the blog
post below that will be in your members area and i'll see you all again really really really soon