When you're traveling or site seeing, one of the most frequent challenges is how to take a photo without it being filled with people obstructing part of the building, bridge, road, waterfall or other object of interest. So what are your options? Here are five proven solutions to removing those unwanted people in your image.
In the following example I'll walk through option 5, using multiple photos and then blending the people away in the image. In the following two images you can see a couple of people in the foreground as well as an individual in front of a column by the building that I want to remove. The first step is to open both images on different layers in Photoshop. The next step is to align the layers. Select both layers and then use the Edit > AutoAlign Layers command to auto-align these layers. In the pop-up window select the Auto-Align projection option. Your images will now be aligned. They may be a bit skewed or stretched as in the image below. Next, add a layer masks to the top most layer. Once you have added your layer mask, you can now remove the figures you don't want by painting out the image using the Brush Tool. In a layer mask everything that is visible will have a white mask, everything you don't want to see will have a black mask. First Select the layer mask, ensure that your brush colour is black and then select the Brush Tool. Zoom into the person you want to remove and then start painting. Keep on painting to remove additional figures in the image. After removing your last person, crop the image (if necessary) and save. Just like magic, unwanted people in the image have been removed! Thought for the day “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
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Eric David is a visual artist / fine art photographer that lives and works in Toronto. Archives
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