Hi guys welcome back what am i even saying i don't even know right now welcome back to another
Five Minute Friday where i Jessica McGovern international multi-award-winning portrait
photographer shares a tip technique or tool with you to improve your photography if you're brand
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and how you're gonna use it moving forwards today i'm gonna share a tip and technique with you guys
that has been frequently requested but also we have kind of covered different versions of it
before this is a brand new one to the youtube channel it's not something i've shared before
but it is one method that i have been using for quite a while now to remove specifically
equine photo halters although it can also be used for dog leashes electric wires fences
all these little things you know super useful little tips and tricks so today's Five Minute
Friday is going to be all about how to remove long things easiest way of describing it long
things from images in a really quick and easy way and before we get started it is important to note
that MTogs any premium member of our community has access to one of the actions that slot right
nicely into our little action pack now that you can basically just one click remove it i'll show
you how to do that right at the end but for now we're going to go through the manual version the
time consuming version the incy bitsy teeny weeny minuscule step-by-step version because it's always
great to know exactly how to do things before you press a button and have it done automatically
for you so without further ado let's just kick this off and get that timer started
that was quite aggressive wasn't it so on the screen right now you should be able to see this
photograph of Viva who was on a client sheet that we did recently now i've already processed these
images the client has already seen the pictures purchased some amazing wall galleries and some
other individual bits and pieces but this is a really great image to have this example shown onto
so what we're going to do is just make sure that we all open up in photoshop and this is
a photoshop step by step that we're going to do today and what we want to have open is the image
layer it doesn't matter if it's called background i don't care what you call it we just need the
image layer right we want to make sure that we can see that it's nice and clear then what we're
going to do is we're going to go ahead and add a new blank layer so just click on this little
icon right the way down here to add a new blank layer now the next step is actually easier to do
if you have a Wacom tablet or another graphics tablet that you can kind of draw all over so
i have with us today my Wacom Intuos Medium Pro nothing is sponsored i just use it so that's kind
of that and the Wacom pen so what i can do with this pen very badly because i'm horrendous at
drawing but it is easier with the pen than it is with a mouse is either go ahead and grab a brush
tool and the brush we need to make sure that the opacity is set all the way up to 100% the flow all
the way up to 100% and then we want the hardness of the brush to be at 100% so we want this to be
like a super solid line basically now size wise that's going to depend on what we're removing
over here okay and we need to get this halter and line out so i'm going to probably fine tune that
when i get in there but we just need to make sure we have these pre-settings ready then what i like
to do personally is i like to just switch my palette back to the default by pressing
D D for Dog D for Doggo and i'm going to use the black to paint over this now
you don't need to use black you can use any colour you want it really doesn't matter
as long as you're painting with something and you have the solid edges what we're then gonna need
to do is just go ahead and zoom all up in here i'm just gonna go and do option and then zoom
and then probably turn my touch on so that i can manoeuvre myself around this picture and i'm going
to start on one end of the object that i want to remove so i'm going to start down this bottom end
here and i need to just make sure that that brush is nice and neat it needs to be larger than the
object where i'm moving but not overly so let's not get carried away here so i'm going to go ahead
and use my keyboard shortcuts which also work with a Wacom to change the brush size so you can see
the size of my brush in relation to my object you could go smaller if you've got a neat hand
i don't have a neat hand what we want to then do is just draw in as smooth it's already started
bad hasn't it in a smooth a line as possible up the object that we want to remove right so you
and like i said you can use kind of anything you want to use but we want to stick within the lines
of the object that we're taking out anywhere where you go like way outside the lines here
is not going to remove itself well but we need to keep going so we can get this clean and removal
now some of you guys will be saying well hang on a hot sec Jess you've shown us
five different ways to remove things in photoshop before i'll link a video to that
and i've gone into other things in a lot more detail such as the healing brush tool i will
put a link to that video above and you might be saying why can't we just use those things Jess
why are you giving us more things i'm giving you more things because knowing all of these
different tools is actually sitting you in a better place so i'm going to make my brush
a little bit smaller using the square brackets for this part under here because i don't want to
be using too much space there as you can see here you don't need to be good at doing straight lines
to do this method right you don't so you want to make sure you're going over everything and then
look we've got other things that we could do taking out and these little nicks on Viva's
face because you know maybe she's getting up to some some some stuff and we're gonna go ahead and
we're just gonna whiz over these little bits so essentially all we're doing is we're just drawing
with a solid colour over the top of anything that we don't want to stay in the picture as
you can see we now have the most ridiculous looking image that you've ever seen we've got
lines going all over the place dot dot dots but they're all on this new blank layer layer three
in my case it can be called whatever you want on yours and what we're going to do with this
is we're going to just whiz all the way up here to select and then in the select menu we're going
to go all the way down to load selection and what that's going to do is it's going to identify empty
pixels right and it's only going to select pixels that have got stuff on them we've painted on them
right so it's going to only select the painted bits and we do that by making sure our settings
are set up as so so what you need to make sure is that the first part of it is the title of your
layer right i said mine was layer 3 yours could be something else but you can see layer 3 is here
because mine was like 3 i'm going to make sure the invert is unselected and we're going to make a new
selection from that so we're going to click ok and you can see that we've got these wiggly lines we
call the marching ants around everything that we painted on but we're not finished yet what
we need to do is go ahead and back into select and then down to modify and then over here into expand
and what expands gonna do is it's gonna give us cushion room around the edge this is a very
important step so please don't forget it i'm going to personally expand this by about four pixels
which is more than enough for my resolution you might need to play with that we just need a bit
extra a bit more so we can click ok and then with that done all we need to do then is click on our
bottom most layer the picture the image the image that we started with turn off our liney layer that
we drew on okay so we've still got our selection okay we've removed the lines from being visible
and we've clicked on the image layer very important steps and then what do we do we do
one of our five ways to remove stuff in photoshop with this selection made so we just do a shift
backspace to end up at the fill panel and we're making sure in this instance that the content is
content aware okay and i just have my settings as seen here you can change them if you want click ok
and what that's going to do is it's going to whip out anything that we drew over so then all we need
to do is deselect anything that's selected okay which is a command D command D will remove that
selection and pretty straight forward and quite quickly what we've done is we've just removed the
halter and the line now is this perfect it's never perfect removing things in photoshop rarely ends
up perfect first time out so i want to go in and have a look at where i did my removals for things
that look not right for example the coat on this section and this vein is not right it looks mushy
so that's when you go ahead and grab your healing brush tool and you can go ahead and use your
methods that we've already gone through so many times before of how to heal things in photoshop
and that's when you go ahead and use that so i'm not going to do that today because it's outside
the scope of this little tip technique tool that we're running through but like i said i had linked
that earlier and i'll make sure it's linked in the description below so by doing this method you very
very quickly if you're good at drawing i mean i'm not but it's still quicker than me going with the
healing tool with the clone tool with the spot healing brush tool with all of the little tools
and taking it out step by step that for me is a lot quicker so you can just whizz over with
a paintbrush everything you want to take out then you want to make sure you go up to select and then
load selection make sure the settings were the same as what i had on my screen and then what you
want to do is go ahead and expand that selection by around three to five pixels i personally find
it sufficient and then at that point you want to turn off your lining layer click on your image
layer and then do a content aware fill it sounds a lot go back through the steps it will be nice and
simple now i did say that the MTogs get an action for this so i'll just really quickly run through
how that looks so let's go up to the point where we had finished our selection here so
you can still see that we have all of the rope in the rope's still in there from the halter
i've painted over it but i've got this action already so it's linked in the blog post below
you'll be able to see it if you're logged in you just go ahead and click the align remover and off
it goes it does the exact same job and you're left clean and ready to move forwards so simple so fast
so that's a little tip for today was it useful for you how are you going to use it are you going to
use it on leashes and collars or on halters on wires or on lines or on other liney things let
me know let me know if you've tried this before and any issues that you had with it maybe we could
help to make it a little bit more seamless and basically that's kind of it if it was helpful like
comment really useful things for us and i'll see you again next week for another Five Minute Friday
i'm gonna just interrupt the end of that recording there you all thought it finished but it hadn't
yet because i totally forgot to show you the actual finished picture of this picture of Viva
so that's the end result a little Viva looking adorable okay i'll go now adios