Comments on: Clean up a Scene in Photoshop Elements in 6 Easy Steps

By: Josu Arévalo

Josu Arévalo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:36:27 +0000

Sometimes you just can’t wait until all the people clear up, or maybe the site is so interesting that you don’t have the opportunity to shot without them.

Just think of a shot in Picadilly Circus without people? Have you ever seen one without people standing by the statue???

By: howard

howard — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:27:22 +0000

I can’t think of a more pointless tool as Scene Cleaner. If you take a photo with people you don’t want in it then you wait until the people are not in it. Simple as that.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:05:47 +0000

@joni

marriedin79 posted a reply to a similar question in another DPS article. Hope this helps.
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-fix-a-botched-tourist-photo-in-photoshop

By: Joni Crews

Joni Crews — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:56:52 +0000

I took a Continuing Ed. couse in Elements 7, and we tried this, but with the different levels of students, lets just say I didn’t have the best experience. Anyway, one picture he was teaching us, he insisted that he had made masks work in PSE 7 and was demonstrating, and we got lost. If someone could figure that out and post, would be sooo cool…I have a wedding photo that I need to mask out someone behind a tree, but only got the one shot.

By: Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:27:35 +0000

mrt has a great idea for cleaning scenes in Photoshop. As the poster suggests, you can drag a layer from one image to another, select them both and use Edit | Auto-Align Layers to align the layers then mask out the offending objects. However, if you are using Photoshop Elements, as I did in this tutorial, there is no Auto-Align layers command in the program and Photoshop Elements does not support layer masks - so that solution will not work for Photoshop Elements users. Use the Scene Cleaner tool instead.

By: Josu Arévalo

Josu Arévalo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:26:56 +0000

Yeah,

That’s indeed the approach I intend to try with a couple of pictures!!!

Thanks

By: MRT

MRT — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:10:45 +0000

^ how about opening both photos as layers, then select image>auto-align.. and then use masks to remove the offending objects?

By: Josu Arévalo

Josu Arévalo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:28:44 +0000

Thats a nice Tip and Trick!!!

What a Pitty I’m not usign PS Elements :(

I must think in something similar but using Photoshop CS3 …..