Magical ....

First off - this was a 'No Photo Sunday'. Weird. I. Take. Photographs.... All. The. Time. So - why I didn't snap off a single shot is beyond me. In Sydney. On the way to the airport. The airport. Brisbane. Nada. Like I said .... weird.

But! Here is something cool! This little ditty (which is in CS4 but I didn't realize it until I saw a tutorial on CS5) is super magical.

Two images - same panorama. Do you see a difference? OK, I admit - it is smallish - since it is a panorama - double click on them ... I'll wait ....

See it?

Yes? No?

I absolutely ABHOR people in my photographs. I know, it is a character flaw, I really don't like people all that much - got a degree to work with computers just so I could avoid people (that didn't really work out all that well - 'cause, well, people BREAK computers and I would have to fix them - the computers, that is ...).

OK, I am not that averse to people - but close. But in my photographs? Yeah. I. Hate. Them. I even told Gary to get out of my shots of the Opera House - how mean is that?So ... I get up really early when everyone else is blissfully sleeping, hope for a bad weather day so there wont be mobs, or I take a few token shots that I never look at again because I don't like them. I don't know why I am wired this way ... I just am.

SO ... Took out these guys:

Boom! Gone!

And these guys:

Gone!


These guys:
Adios.



Him:

Bye Bye.



And him:

All in all - I washed away 7 groups of people from the above photo.

How? Am I magic? Far from it - but Photoshop is. The trick: 'Content Aware'. Select the person (using what ever - the lasso is fine, it does not need to be exact). Hit 'edit' 'fill' and when the menu pops up - in the drop down menu - select 'Content Aware' and photoshop does its best guess on what is behind the offending person and fills it in.



SERIOUSLY .... HOW COOL IS THAT?!?

I did the selections quick and dirty so don't look too close - but I'm digging my 'Abandoned Opera House' photo ...


OK, OK, here is one piece of another panorama - with obnoxious guy taking a photo:
AND without obnoxious guy taking a photo:
How cool is that?

AND FOR AJ:

'Eagle Eye AJ' noted that while I had gotten rid of obnoxious camera guy - I had not gotten rid of his pants reflected in the granite. I give you, AJ, a better version:

Reflection gone! (Good eye - at 2:00am when I was playing - didn't even see it ...)