Hi New here!

Hi, I am new here, just bought my S2IS a couple of weeks ago, and trying to figure it out!
I took this before my nieces sweethearts dance, and I can't figure out how to remove the shadow in PhotoShop. Can someone help me please!
Thanks!
Erica

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The best advice I got for shadows like that was to move the subjects out away from the wall 2-3 feet. Also maybe a little less flash power.

That would be time consuming to remove the shadow in PS

I would do an extraction in Photoshop, then paste onto a new background.

Stacie

In order to fix this in Photoshop, you will learn some valuable skills.

More important, however, would be to understand how to avoid the problem in the first place. Using bounce flash or diffuser are good solutions, because they make the shadows less harsh. Combining that with a better choice of background can make it a non-problem. A background that is further away or a background that is very dark would probably be another way to reduce the shadows.

This is a very rough and crude attempt. If you take your time, im sure it would look realistic. All I used was the quick mask tool around the two people and then used the clone stamp to remove the shadow. The quick mask prevented me from having to take too much time in preventing from cloning over your subjects. Im sure if you try using the same method with a feather of maybe 2 or 3 pixles, it would look better. There are a ton of ways to do it. As stated above you could use the extract tool, or you could prevent the situation completly. Welcome to the forums.

putting PS aside


You can see a sparkle between the 2

great shot, but i agree with robert that you should try to avoid these types of situations to begin with. my instructor always said that photoshop should be used to enhance and not to correct. of course there are times when it can't be avoided, especially when shooting candids ("oh keep that pose/moment, but could you move further away from the wall? thanks"), so i'd follow "staciecd's" advice with the extraction tool.

The shadows usually distract. Wish you had a diffuser or a light behind them, huh? Sometimes it is not an optimal setting. Work with PS on this one.

Hi Erica

I would suggest bouncing your flash off the ceiling if you have a flashgun, you could also warm it up a little by using curves and levels in PS

Dale

Hi, I am new here, just bought my S2IS a couple of weeks ago, and trying to figure it out!
I took this before my nieces sweethearts dance, and I can't figure out how to remove the shadow in PhotoShop. Can someone help me please!
Thanks!
Erica

i'm unfamiliar with that camera, is it a P&S? all of the advice above is great..

sari.

Thanks for all the replies!
I will be taking more pictures of my niece this year, as she is graduating from high school, so she will be doing proms, etc.......
Then we are off to Purdue to watch her cheering! So, I'm trying to get this camera down alittle better before all of that comes up!
Yes, her and her boyfriend have been together for pretty much all of their high school years, and they are crazy about one another. Not sure how going to 2 different colleges in Indiana is going to work, but we will see.
So far I am pleased with the S2. And I am learning quite abit just lurking here, but there is so much to learn!
I took pictures a couple of weeks ago at the high school gym and although the pictures were good, the floor was a very ugly color of yellow. I think it was the lighting in the gym, and definitely the fact that I didn't know much about the camera at that time at all. The floor just basically ate up what I was taking pictures of.
Again, thanks all for helping me.
Erica