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Use
by Dango517 - 6/20/09 12:10 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizehttp://www.paint.net/
then just use the pencil or paint brush to erase them. It would also help if you use the zoom feature as well because it would make this time consuming task easier.
If you have problem with a changed file extension see "help". Paint.net has an extensive help function and a forum if you need them also, see help for these services by Paint.net.
It is freeware, BTW.
erase a person from a pic?
by bellelyly - 6/20/09 12:12 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeDepend on your picture.... I tried this few times...
If you have a scanner.. try to cover or add add on top of the person or thing you want to cover...(flowers, pet, balloons, or choose an other part of an other photo you want to discard...by a way of trimming very carefully and taping back of the cut piece.. set it on the part you don't want.... scan and see if result is like you want.... I had great results doing this... I do my photo myself with Kodak plus a Kodak printer and scanner... I do terrific photos... ad etc.. a backround etc.... it's fun by the way... hope you have some result.
Whatever you do, save a copy first
by rje49 - 6/20/09 1:08 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeWhatever method you choose, it wouldn't hurt to copy/paste to have a duplicate photo before getting started with major editing. When editing, you can always simply click to close and NOT "save changes", but then you start all over. If you are editing and "save" your changes anywhere along the line, you would be stuck with them - for better or worse. That's why I always make a copy first- in case I save changes but then change my mind about it, possibly because I found a better method.
"Clone" tool to remove unwanted parts of photos
by paul_saute - 6/20/09 2:29 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeHi,
paint.net is good, but I find GIMP is much closer to Photoshop - and it is also FREE. In any case, the Clone tool in all 3 software packages will allow you to copy the surrounding part of the background over the part of the photo you want to remove. I use this tool extensively when I want to remove electrical wires, utility poles, etc. from my vacation photos. It is best to blow up the image to 150 to 200% and work on a small portion of the photo at a time.
go to this site: http://www.gimp.org/
"Erasing" tourists
by stan31 - 7/6/09 12:08 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeActually, there is a much simpler way to "erase" or eliminate
extraneous people, eg tourists.
You don't need special software - GIMP will do it.
However, you do need to take two separate shots from the exact
same location, at slightly different times (and keep all the
photo variables unchanged - ie f-stop, ISO, and time.) A tripod
is a huge aid (almost a prerequise.)
In GIMP (or any other software which allows layers), you load the
two shots in separate layers, and then selectively erase the
superfluous tourists.
Note: both pictures (and layers) can contain lots of "to be
erased" tourists. You just have to make sure that the other layer
has the real, intended background. Also, you can use more than
two shots - but each separate shot has to be loaded in it's own
individual layer.
After eliminating the individual "tourists" for the different layers,
you would merge all the layers into one image.
Microsoft Research used to have a free program to do this automatically. Have never used their program, but a Google search
ought to bring up the download page.
Gingi804
Crop
by theophis - 7/6/09 12:32 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeI would keep it simple, and CROP the image around the person that you want to keep. Thereby discarding all of the remaining image content.
Theo
CNET Online Courses deleted
by DADSGETNDOWN - 7/6/09 1:38 PM In reply to: How do I erase a person from a pic? by audreycharlizeBoy I just got this in the newsletter, it's a couple months old 
They had a great step by step tutorial here at Cnet in there Online courses, which they unfortunately deleted the courses adn all the content, ALTHOUGH, I thought they said tehy might try and move the content somewhere else, to video maybe ?.
http://help.cnet.com/digital-photography-learning/
Anyway they had a great one for this, called "Cut Out what you don't want", and it wasn't just cut they also had a "Air Brushing away distractions".
I have these saved but only locally.
I can't really post the pictures used but it satrted with 4 people standing next to each other, they cut out the 3rd from the right and squeezed together the other 3 or moved the 4th on the right, in towards the other 2. and it lookes great.
Here is what the course says to do though, hope it helps.
Oh they also use to have a Shockwave video of it here,
http://www.cnet.com/av/hlp/EK-classes/EK-4971/enus_084145_04edata.html
The Gimp will do everything.
(We wouldn’t be surprised if cropping were the single most common edit made to digital photographs. Because you can crop and recompose your images so easily, the need to compose your shot perfectly in the viewfinder is somewhat diminished. Instead, you can tweak the shot to your heart’s content afterward, when you have time to think about it and evaluate your options.
One simple technique, if you are looking to cut out extraneous items in the periphery of your photos, is to use Photoshop Element’s Crop tool. But what can you do when you need more intricate cropping capabilities–say, because you had a fight with Uncle Bob at the family holiday party and want to take him out of your pictures?
In our example, we used the Rectangular Marquee tool to select the woman in black. We included some of the area surrounding her, then hit copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) to create a new layer containing just the selected area. Using the Move tool, we dragged the new layer to the left, using the distant shoreline as a guide while moving it into position. For the moment, the lady in pink has lost her left arm, but that’s easy to fix.)
(You can remove out-of-favor relatives from family photos using the Rectangular Marquee tool and a wave of your Magic Wand.
In the Layers palette, we temporarily hid the new layer by clicking the eye at the left. Next, we highlighted the background layer, selected the Magic Wand tool, and clicked in the general vicinity of the woman’s left arm. With Adobe’s little “marching ants” parading around most of the area in pink and nowhere else, we turned the layer back on, selected it, and pressed Ctrl+X. This erases only the segment of the new layer that falls within that previously selected area on the background layer. In other words, we selected an area on one layer, then used it to erase an area on the other.
Next, we used the Eraser tool to remove any leftovers from the old layer, including Bob’s hand on the lady in black’s left shoulder. (For close work, zoom in on the image.) If parts of Uncle Bob’s head were to reappear (remember, he’s still there on that background layer), we could just use the clone tool on that layer to behead him. Finally, use the Crop tool to trim away the original lady in black on the right (unless you’re going for a twin-sister effect)
(TIP: In Photoshop Elements, you can also use the Cookie Cutter tool to crop your photo into interesting shapes.)
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