Help with tricky sign removal please

[tim]

Can anyone give me a good technique to remove the "fire exit" sign from this image? The complication is that the veil is in front of part of the sign. I can remove the rest of it ok, but there's the green behind the veil I can't get rid of. I'd usually use saturation controls but i'm not having any luck. Any suggestions appreciated! :)

[TeeJay]

How "urgent" is this Tim? I don't have time this minute, but wouldn't mind looking later. (although I wouldn't mind betting someone will get it done in the next five minutes! :-))

[tim]

I'll be sending the prints to my lab in about 12-24 hours, but i'm not too bothered if I can't get rid of the sign. I'm really after an idea for a technique since i'll have to do it myself on the full size image.

[donboyfisher]

took about 5 mins on this version and not the neatest, but i just used the clone stamp at a fairly large size for the wood. then for the veil, just a small clone stamp and cloned from other parts of the veil that was covering the wood section:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/donboyfisher/head.jpg

[SuzyView]

Great job! You are an artist!

[donboyfisher]

thanks! ( i'm no artist - beleive me! :D )

with more time, you'd be able to take out the left over green bits without too much fuss i reckon.

[david lee]

Nuffin is impossible wiv Photo Shop LOL

[MDJAK]

I wouldn't even try. But don't you just hate how those things crop (no pun intended) up in the shots and you didn't even notice them at the time?

Every time I see a great landscape shot, I always wonder how they got it without power lines that always seem to be in mine, etc.

mark

[TeeJay]

took about 5 mins on this version and not the neatest, but i just used the clone stamp at a fairly large size for the wood. then for the veil, just a small clone stamp and cloned from other parts of the veil that was covering the wood section:



Thats the route I was going to take, but it looks like you've done a pretty good job to me!

[98photo]

I replaced color behind the veil and cloned out the sign.

[tim]

donboyfisher, thanks, great job, why didn't I think of that?! Ta.

98photo, how'd you replace the color?

[98photo]

In PS go to image...adjustments...replace color...use eyedropper to select the green...slide the saturation bar till you achieve the desired effect.
I use that quite often!

[tim]

I didn't even know it existed, I googled it yesterday and it worked great, thanks! :)

[98photo]

It is my favorite tool!!