I actually learned how to do it a couple days ago.
[text] (link) then BOOM you've got some pretty blue text. EDIT: In case that changed it into an actual link, its [ text. ] ( link. ) without all the spaces of course
OK, I can never figure this out and I need help. When deleting something from a picture, there can either be white space, or just the canvas underneath. How in the world do you put in background when deleting an object, such as the dinosaur, without seeing what the background actually is. I'm a beginner at photoshop and its probably just something obvious I'm missing, but I need to know.
You just guess. I can see all around the dino, and it's just grass and dirt on the right, and that square pavement thing on the left. I just make an assumption that every straight line just continues on and it comes together.
Oh, also I'm not deleting anything. I'm just drawing over it with what's around it.
That wouldn't have worked for the entire dinosaur. That was essentially the same surface behind the girl in the water, whereas the dinosaur had grass and dirt on the right, then white pavement with straight edges, then the tan / brown dirt, then the skyline behind it. No way i would trust content aware to do that properly.
I use a combination of the clone stamp and spot healing brush. Content aware is nice but it's sometimes obvious what areas have been duplicated from what's around it. I think of it like painting, and use the textures/values that are available around what I'm editing as my palette. Increase levels occasionally (not permanently, just to preview) to see where your edges still need work. Eventually you get the hang of it.
holy cow. I remember spending ages in photoshop hand dawdling a lot of that work. Manually copying areas and pasting into the blank spots i'd created/cut. I didn't realize how easy adobe have made it for ya'll now. It used to be so much harder... Had to be a lot tighter with the lasso, and wow when they brought in that magnetic lasso! whew!
I should have expected it... software progress eh!? who woulda thought ;)
Ok, I understand. But to put in the background do you just copy, say, from another part of the pavement and put it where it would be and same with the grass?
Also I would suggest the cloning stamp. Helps for smoothing out your newly created background instead of just copying and pasting the background over the Dino. Sometimes the textures won't match up super well
This, though it's also worth noting that Photoshop CS6 has a really fantastic content-aware fill that can often at least serve as a decent starting place for this kind of thing.
Yeah, depending on the type of thing you're trying to cover up it sometimes doesn't even begin to work properly. Mostly just mentioning it for the benefit of anyone else wondering how one does it.
long ago, i photoshopped my pussywhipped friend and his uber-religious girlfriend into the American Gothic. With regards to fleshing out new gaps: I simply copy-pasted textures, using the "clone stamp" tool, into their appropriate space (this mostly included expanding roofing around the girlfriend's small head). It worked pretty well, he began to choke me immediately after seeing it. lol.
I'd supply the edited picture, but I was forced to delete
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Grant_DeVolson_Wood_-_American_Gothic.jpg/250px-Grant_DeVolson_Wood_-_American_Gothic.jpg
easy version of it. use the clone tool of some similair textures in the picture. and match them up over it
EDIT: water and dirt are especially easy, you can use 3000 different samples of dirt to fill it in so that it looks real. things like cars are a pain to add in from other images
I install underground petroleum storage tanks for a living. The large manhole covers are where underground pumps send fuel to the dispensers. The medium sized lids are usually where the Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) probes are housed. The smallest lids are the fill ports where the gas trucks hook up to deliver a truck load of gas or diesel.
Now, split tanks containing two different fuels are fairly common, and that looks like what you have uncovered behind that dinosaur. It's the only way to explain why you have two large lids on the same tank. However, the vent lines (the vertical pipes) in your picture should reach all the way to the ground in front of the concrete slab. Also, for split tanks each compartment should have it's own vent line. With a split tank, effectively you have two separate tanks. In this case you would have four tanks and four vent lines.
In summary, this looks shopped. I can tell because of some of the manway covers and seeing quite a few tanks in my time.
There're a few tricks that make the bulk of the work easy. The patch tool, clone tool, and content aware fill (make a selection and hit Shift+F5) will do a lot, and fast. But the details usually require a good eye and good painting skills, with a brush, for instance.
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u/theskabus Jan 02 '13
Now it really is just a guy riding a dinosaur.