welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me today we're going to essentially
look at a photograph and in photoshop remove distractions that cross over the line of the dog
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upload every week and sometimes more than that if I feel like it so just like I've said basically in
this video what we're going to do is we're going to remove this bokeh circle which actually crosses
over the line of Pippi here you could use this technique as well for trees that are intercepting
the dog you could remove it for arms which go behind the dog all sorts of things I tend to
use this technique relatively frequently so I'm a bit of the way through my edit this is the before
image this is the well basically where we're at now not quite finished it yet but we're following
the steps of the full edit video in the full edit video there is how to get to this layer here
there is also how to do the contouring layer and stuff that's all in the full edit video which I
will link above then we also have on here radials light radials there now that again that video I
will link above and then the only other thing that we've got there is two colour adjustment layers
so we've got one changing the greens to orange and then one's picking up the residual greens
and turning them orange so that's kind of where we're at now I just can't get comfortable with
this bokeh circle because it's just too bright and it's distracting so what I'm going to do
is I'm going to go ahead and duplicate our smart object layer which as you guys will know
from my workflow I keep a smart object layer so I can go back into my camera raw filters but we
need to rasterize this layer so we right click on it and we go ahead to rasterize layer with that
layer rasterize essentially it's just a normal layer and so if you your dog picture is just on
a normal layer you don't need to do anything just duplicate it because you need to have two copies
so we will then grab a mask now we've already done a mask as far as this edit is concerned so
I can just use a mask that I've already created if you've not got a mask you do need to get a
very very good mask and a video on how to achieve that is linked above so we're going to hold down
option or alt on the keyboard click and drag one of our hair masks down onto our copied layer so
what that's done is that's put this layer mask on to this layer so what that means
let's do a crude example here let's grab a brush let's put the brush at 100 on black
I'm hoping you guys can see that the line stops when it gets to Pippi now that's because there
is this mask so anything that's black on the mask is essentially ignored so it's looking at
what's beneath that which is this layer here if we were to disable the mask you can see
our line so this bit that's lighter that's because we've got
a radial on there over the top of it higher up in the layer stack there but don't worry
about that so what we're actually looking at is this line here now if we enable that layer mask
Pippi comes back through because it's looking to the layer below so with that crude example done
we can go ahead and start to fix our distraction so this is a tree here you can just see it and
I want to really try and carry on that tree there so there is a tree here I'm going to grab my clone
stamp tool because it does do the best job of this I'm going to hold down option I'm going to click
to select this as my source now that looks green that's because this layer is green okay you can
see a bit of rubbish masking there so the tree is here I've cloned this from the centre of this tree
therefore about there remember we want to be on 100 opacity 100 flow we're going to go ahead and
add that there so let's go and zoom in we need to check our mask now so we can grab hold of the mask
grab a brush up here or press b on the keyboard we want to have a smaller hard-ish brush 50 okay
I'm just going to go and touch up make sure that does not intersect the line of Pippi's coat here
I'm trying to work out whether that is her back or not if you're in doubt turn the layer off okie
cookie so we've got a little bit of Pippi down here which we can introduce back again
I'm going to soften our brush off a bit I think and just bring that back
and you can always switch your palette by pressing x so if you press x it switches
your palette around and by doing that you'll be able to just go in and fine tune
still got Pippi's little whiskers coming through so that's great news I'm going to go in a bit
closer it's just a case of fine tuning the mask till you get to the point that it is
realistic so that is pretty solid you see there's a bit of that hair that I just want to get back
these bits here so I'm going to get a softer brush a bit of a bigger brush drop it to maybe 30%
opacity and just start to bring those bits of hair back and just blending blending bunny blending
to get a good finish perfect when we're finished we've got a awesome
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