Photoshop help: remove twigs against a gradient, bokeh background

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to remove the branch in this photo right next to the Yellow-throat, but because it's against a gradient-type background I'm having no luck. Spot-healing, Healing, Clone, you name it, all leave it looking like a splotchy mess due to the different gradient on both sides of the branch. This should be relatively simple, but it's proving otherwise.

Matt

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Did not know how to download full image ... this is a small screen capture.

To download, I do the following. Not sure if there's another way
Click Glasses, top right, then 100%,then right click image and you have option to save image.
It a as saves as odd extension. I change to jpeg.

All you need to do is clone out the base of the twig.
Then select around the twig with the Patch Tool, and drag it into the nearby space, and gone!

avondale87 wrote in post #19052839
To download, I do the following. Not sure if there's another way
Click Glasses, top right, then 100%,then right click image and you have option to save image.
It a as saves as odd extension. I change to jpeg.

Thank you !

I had looked at that but it showed as downloading a DUCK file.

Here is another interpretation.

Cheers

Dennis

Damo77 wrote in post #19052847
All you need to do is clone out the base of the twig.
Then select around the twig with the Patch Tool, and drag it into the nearby space, and gone!

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The patch tool works on "islands", if you know what I mean.

Excellent, thank you for sharing your technique. I gave it a go, and it worked really quick, but I still had to touch up w/ the Clone Tool. So far, these results are much better than what I was achieving before, but I still can kinda see some residual "work", where the clone stamp didn't impart the background texture, so there's "bald" spots. Am I being too picky?

nardes wrote in post #19052862
Here is another interpretation.

Cheers

Dennis

Masterful PS work. You went the extra mile and removed the other branch, which to me was next level difficulty, so I wasn't even going to attempt it!

Hi Matthew

I should have mentioned that I used the "Content Aware Fill" Function in PS CC.

Basically, you Select the twig with the Lasso Tool and then CAF inspects the pixels around your Selection and attempts to fill the Selection with a blended mix of adjacent pixels. You can also further refine the region from which the pixels will be chosen from.

I find that 95% of the time it achieves this effectively. It is a wonderful Tool in PS CC.

Cheers

Dennis

lacogada wrote in post #19052837
Did not know how to download full image ... this is a small screen capture.

nardes wrote in post #19052901
Hi Matthew

I should have mentioned that I used the "Content Aware Fill" Function in PS CC.

Basically, you Select the twig with the Lasso Tool and then CAF inspects the pixels around your Selection and attempts to fill the Selection with a blended mix of adjacent pixels. You can also further refine the region from which the pixels will be chosen from.

I find that 95% of the time it achieves this effectively. It is a wonderful Tool in PS CC.

Cheers

Dennis

Teach a man to fish...

You both were on the money with the CAF. I had tried it before, but what got it over the finish line was adding the twig selection to its own layer, which only allows CAF to select from the other pixels in that respective layer.

I'm forever grateful for your advice, this is so awesome.

Matt