Help With Dead Cat...

Sensitive thread this, but I need your help! The girlfriend's cat passed away at the weekend, and she wants to put the following picture on a 24 inch box canvas. Now, she's desperate to get this done this week, but asked me to remove the umbrella from his head - this is WAY beyond what I can achieve, but wondered if anyone could assist if they had a few spare minutes? The thing I'm struggling with the most is the cat's shadow.

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Awwwww.... poor kitty Maybe try cropping most of it out and then zooming into the area and carefully using your cloning tool to get rid of the umbrella.

How's this? I'm not quite sure how it'll stand up to being blown up to 24", let me know if want the high res version at all.

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Here is my attempt for you (I have the full size image too, if you want it)

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Wow... you guys are really good! How did you do this? And how long did it take?

- Duplicated the base layer
- Flipped the copy
- Used a layer mask on the copy layer to reveal just the right side of the shadow
- Created a gradient layer with layer mask to recreate the shadow from the edge of the wall and cover up the umbrella

Pretty quick, only about 5-10 mins

...sorry to hear about your girlfriends cat

Similar concept to Haribo's; selected the shadow of the cat's ear/head on the wall then flipped it horizontally, moved it into position, tweaked the levels on the selection just a little [LIghtened the mid-tones just a touch], then used a layer mask to mask out the offending background. Did a bit of mopping up with healing brush and that was about it really, took about 10min too.

Thanks to both Electric Shepherd and Haribo - have sent you both PMs requesting the higher res image - I'll run them both past the girlfriend tomorrow. Thanks again - this will mean the World to her.