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Jun 15, 2009 15:04 |  #1

I'm looking to remove some wrinkles in the backdrop of these shots. I don't care about the big creases in the backdrop, mainly the smaller wrinkles. Here's one of them, the rest are on my flickr page.

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What would be the best technique to use for this in Photoshop? Someone mentioned selecting just the backdrop then using guassian blurn on the selection, which works OK from what I have tried so far but can start to look overprocessed if you use too much, and the edges of the subject get blurred when you use a lot even though they aren't selected. Thanks in advance.

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Jun 15, 2009 16:30 |  #2

Use Surface Blur instead.

You may need to duplicate the layer and mask out the subject so it isn't affected by the blur.
Here's a quick try with a Surface Blur of 7; I did a rough layer mask of the foreground so that the blur only affected the backdrop.


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Jun 15, 2009 16:44 |  #3

I have used a Jiffy® Steamer J-2000 before it worked pretty good for a small areas.
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Jun 15, 2009 16:49 |  #4

Heres a quick job

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First step........ Take the lens cap off.

  
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Jun 15, 2009 16:55 |  #5

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Jun 15, 2009 17:09 |  #6

Thanks fedka and lecherro, those look much better. :)


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Jun 15, 2009 23:44 |  #7

Nice result! :)
Lecherro, you used Surface blur too?




  
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Jun 16, 2009 21:52 |  #8

I used a gausian blur on the whole image, copied in another layer, to smooth it out and a layer mask to reveal the sharper image underneath. I did this in about 5 min. I could have taken a lot longer and gotten better results.


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Jun 16, 2009 23:04 |  #9

Here's my final version:

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Selected just the backdrop, created a new layer mask, ran surface blur on that, then erased the mask around her hair.

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Jun 16, 2009 23:18 |  #10

RacingThoughts, Fedka, both of you have great results,
but if you pay attention to right bottom bigger wrinkles on image (on wrinkle shadows)
only Lecherro has no defects there
its not critic - just a note :)




  
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Jun 16, 2009 23:25 |  #11

Thanks- good observation. Maybe I'll do a little more work on that part of the image. :)

EDIT: Here's my latest version.

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Mar 04, 2011 19:44 |  #12

PixelMagic wrote in post #8115269 (external link)
Use Surface Blur instead.

You may need to duplicate the layer and mask out the subject so it isn't affected by the blur.
Here's a quick try with a Surface Blur of 7; I did a rough layer mask of the foreground so that the blur only affected the backdrop.

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Mar 04, 2011 20:31 as a reply to  @ Salma's post |  #13

spot healing brush in lightroom, and skin smoothing....I did mess one thing up though, And I didnt see it until I posted

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