Erase Unwanted items

[rawHulk]

Hi all,

Here is a picture I have taken in color near the place I work.

I am using Photoshop elements 7. Used the "Adjust Smart Pix" menu item to saturate the color and then converted to Grayscale image.

I like the picture. However, I am not sure how I can remove the tip of the other building on the top left corner. Any help please.



Any comments on how I could have improved the shot are welcome..

Thanks

[300busa]

Nice capture!

[rawHulk]

@300busa - I was editing the link to display a larger picture while you posted the reply..

I love the forum..

Edit: Now I see that you changed your message.. haha..

[300busa]

If this works for you, it is really easy to do if you need me to show you.

[RoyL]

Use the Healing Brush or Clone Stamp tool. both are fairly easy to use. Use Photoshop help for a brief explanation on what you have to do. You will then end up with what 300busa has produced.

[OsmosisStudios]

Clone tool is likely going to be your best bet. Use a 0% hardness and 100% opacity in as-large-as-possible stamps. Once youve got the bulk down, go over it with a bit of blur tool.

[rawHulk]

@300busa.. - That's amazing.. Please guide me through the steps. I followed what Osmosis suggested but how do you decide on where to put the source for cloning if you used it?

@Osmosis - thanks for the suggestion. I did use the Clone tool to get something similar to what 300busa did. However, I just simply selected the Clone tool and brushed it over the left hand corner. I am very much new to PP. I can see the 100% opacity is selected by default when I use the Clone tool, However I have a couple of questions.

How do I select the Hardness?
What do you mean by as-large-as possible stamps?
Why do I need to blur the image again?

Thanks.

[xxpinballxx]

Please answer questions here whenever possible. Simply editting the image and posting is not really a help to anyone looking for the same information.
The questions here are meant to be helpful...for everyone who reads it not just the original poster.

I also say clone it. you'll want to try and complete the cloude or make it look natural and without any repetition in obvious marks. SO in this case I'd grab a spot right on the edge of the white so it includes the white cloud and the sky. then make the brush large enough to cover most of the area neede to cover. The more spots you clone the more chaces you'll see it. There really isnt an easy way to do this...just make sure your history brush is set high enough to step back if you think it looks obvious.
A bit of practice I did was just picking images and try cloning poles or powerlines out of it and then gradually got to cloning all sorts of things.

[300busa]

Originally Posted by rawHulk

@300busa.. - That's amazing.. Please guide me through the steps. I followed what Osmosis suggested but how do you decide on where to put the source for cloning if you used it?

@Osmosis - thanks for the suggestion. I did use the Clone tool to get something similar to what 300busa did. However, I just simply selected the Clone tool and brushed it over the left hand corner. I am very much new to PP. I can see the 100% opacity is selected by default when I use the Clone tool, However I have a couple of questions.

How do I select the Hardness?
What do you mean by as-large-as possible stamps?
Why do I need to blur the image again?

Thanks.

Sorry it took so long for me to get back, I just woke up. All I did was use the eraser on the building and then grabbed the healing brush (looks like a bandaid) and selected an area of the sky by pressing (ALT + CLICK). Then I used the brush over the area where the building was and some of the original sky around the area.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by rawHulk

How do I select the Hardness?
What do you mean by as-large-as possible stamps?
Why do I need to blur the image again?

Thanks.

Im not familiar with Elements, but when you select the clone tool there should be a slider or drop down menu in the top of the window that shoes the hardness. Just hover your cursor over it to see. Basically hardness is described at how Hard the edge of the brush/stamp is. A hard brush will be a perfect circle/shape, whereas a soft one will be soft (feathered).

"as large as possible stamps" refers to the diameter of the brush, again adjustable with a slider on the top of the window (in same bar as the hardness) or with the [ and ] keys (smaller/larger, respectively)

Once you've got it done, there's a toold in your tools palette (default: left hand side of the screen) called the "blur tool". In Elements I think it's its own button, but in CS2 and other versions youd have to click-hold the button down to select from sharpen/blur.