Cant clone this person out, any help please

Well I'm new to photoshop and experimenting using layers, cloning and taking bits out of other pictures and adding it in to others.

I am desperately trying to edit out a women in the below shot, I have a similar image where the woman is in a different position revealing the background. The only problem is that it is taken from a slightly different perspective.

Please see below the images:

1. The image I would want to edit the woman out of.

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Sorry can't help much... but I think you have done a very good job so far, there is some of the women s lower torso left near the table top and some arm in front of the window. A little more work and your home free.

rjc1 wrote in post #11885084
Sorry can't help much... but I think you have done a very good job so far, there is some of the women s lower torso left near the table top and some arm in front of the window. A little more work and your home free.

Thanks, I know I got to that point and can't seem to make it subtle without the square or cut out look! Just inexperienced with this.

You're over-thinking this one.. There's so much detail in that photo, even what you have now is very passable. I would clean up the little black dot /artifact to the right of that column, and call it a day.

mattyb240 wrote in post #11885011
The only problem is that it is taken from a slightly different perspective.

Any help/advice/tips/quick edits would be really appreciated.

You can change the perspective by using the Transform tool found under Edit. You may have to play around with the type (Scale, Rotate, etc) to get it right but should be able to get it close. Set the layer's blending mode to difference. Now where the image is lined up you will see black. You want as much black as possible. Keep playing with the Transform & Move tools. Then change the layer blend mode back to Normal and add your mask to paint in. Hope this helps.

There doesn't seem to be all that much difference in perspective between the two at the back of the room. I did a rectangular select from the second image, feathered the edge by two pixels, and pasted into the first image without any further transform. I used a layer mask to clean up some of the overlap in the lower area, particularly the #5 placard. Not perfect yet, but I think this gets pretty close.

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D Thompson wrote in post #11885304
.... Set the layer's blending mode to difference. Now where the image is lined up you will see black. You want as much black as possible. Keep playing with the Transform & Move tools. Then change the layer blend mode back to Normal and add your mask to paint in. Hope this helps.

Thanks for this one -- I'm adding it to my collection of clever things I've learned on POTN!

I also think you did a pretty good job originally. Like rjc said just a tad more work and it would be good to go!

Next time I would recommend asking the lady nicely to allow you to take a couple photographs without her in it. That would have saved you all of this time in Photoshop to do other PP work that is probably less grueling. It's easier to ask a person to move than it is to get rid of them in Photoshop in most cases. Just something to think about next time you do this.

Rimmer wrote in post #11885877
Thanks for this one -- I'm adding it to my collection of clever things I've learned on POTN!

Glad you found it useful. It can be a real timesaver trying to align different images.

Well, since you want tips might as well tell you my way of doing it

I understand that you're practicing a Photoshop technique, but you could avoid this by using a tripod and taking multiple shots.

I would give "merge to panorama" a try...

I just gave this a try with Photoshop Elements 9's "Photomerge Scene Cleaner." Not too bad -- it automatically aligns the images, then you make a couple of scribbles and it does the work.

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Thanks everyone for the tremendous input I will try again tomorrow night when I get chance, all these new techniques and terms for me to learn and experiment with. I appreciate every persons input!

These were taken using a tripod, unfortunately it was my friends cafe where they were hosting a posh dinner, that lady would not stay out of the shot as they were behind schedule... It made my life a little tedious but I learnt thats the way it goes sometimes, not everyone has the time to get all of the work done in the time given. Learning by doing an all that jazz.