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1. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
Trevor.Dennis Mar 5, 2012 11:33 AM (in response to emoglotz)Do you have a number of cables running in paralell, and are you finding that you get bits of the adjacent cables in the repair? If yes, try using the Patch tool. Use the same selection you made with the pen tool, but select the Patch tool and drag just far enough. (into the gap between the cables.
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2. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
PECourtejoie Mar 5, 2012 12:02 PM (in response to emoglotz)Hello!
Could you post an excerpt of the image, and maybe the failed attempt stroking a path?
Did you also look at: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-photographers/what-to-do-when-content-awa re-fill-or-content-aware-scale-doesnt-work/
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3. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 5, 2012 12:58 PM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)I've tried the patch tool, didn't work...will try again as you described. Thanks.
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4. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 5, 2012 1:01 PM (in response to PECourtejoie)Will try the method shown in the link you provided. If that doesn't work will post an excerpt of my attempts. Thanks.
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5. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 5, 2012 5:56 PM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)Didn't work...
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7. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
PECourtejoie Mar 5, 2012 11:53 PM (in response to emoglotz)Are you trying to do everything at once?
Did you rry to restrict the tool to a section at a time (sky, water) using selections or layer masks.
Is the size of the brush small for the right cables? you do one at a time, right?
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9. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
Silkrooster Mar 6, 2012 12:34 AM (in response to Silkrooster)Having the original image as another layer, may allow you to retreive some of the lost data, if needed, since the clone tool and a few others can sample from lower layers.
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10. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
Noel Carboni Mar 6, 2012 4:05 AM (in response to emoglotz)Lots of folks are trying to help by guessing at what you mean by "didn't work". Perhaps showing your result will help pinpoint what's going wrong.
Keep in mind that the brush size and hardness you choose for the brush need to be appropriate to the subject material you're painting out.
-Noel
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11. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
twenty_one Mar 6, 2012 5:02 AM (in response to emoglotz)emoglotz, there's an important lesson to be learned here, in addition to the eminent Dr. Brown's :
Getting the shot right is always less work than fixing it later.
Translated to a situation like this, when you have intrusive cables in the foreground, what you do is make two exposures, and move the camera position slightly from one to the other. The background will be virtually identical so you can use one to mask out the other.
Little tricks like this soon become habit.
(funny how scenarios come in lumps. I said this, in another context, only a couple of days ago).
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12. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 6, 2012 7:39 AM (in response to PECourtejoie)Yes to all.
Silkrooster - Looks great! However, I believe spot healing brush was the first I tried and got smudgy results, especially in area of the locks where there is a lot of detail behind the cables. Found the patch tool works best, but not where there is a lot of detail behind the cables.
Fosse - Well, the bow of the ship going through the Panama Canal at 6 AM in the morning is a popular place, very crowded, and not one of them a photographer. I was lucky enough to get the last spot which was dead center, but in front of the cables. I tried to prevail on some people next to me to trade spots, but none were willing ($##$!!!&& b---ds) and they didn't even have cameras. However, will keep your suggestion in mind about taking two shots for the next time...and will have to get up earlier.
I think if I want to really make this work, I will have to do a lot of work, probably using a combination of all these methods.
Thanks to you all.
By the way, Re my question on screens without a reply button...when I click on a response, it appears without any reply button. How do I get a screen showing the reply button without entering a new question, cancelling out of it, and then clicking on a response, which is the only way I found to get a screen showing the reply button.
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13. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 6, 2012 7:38 AM (in response to twenty_one)Not sure I fully understand...do you line up the two images in PS? Then the ropes will be in the same position?? If you don't line them up then you will have different details behind them in the two exposures??
Can you be more clear/explicit?
Thanks.
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14. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
Noel Carboni Mar 6, 2012 10:01 AM (in response to emoglotz)emoglotz wrote:
I believe spot healing brush was the first I tried and got smudgy results,
That sounds like maybe you didn't use a hard-edged brush.
Another approach that can work is to select around the offending parts, then use Edit - Fill - Content aware. Again, you want 0 feathering and you want to turn off antialiasing entirely.
-Noel
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16. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
emoglotz Mar 6, 2012 10:41 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)Looks good, will give it a try. Thanks.
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17. Re: Pen tool/path and content aware spot healing brush to remove cables (CS5)
twenty_one Mar 6, 2012 11:03 AM (in response to emoglotz)emoglotz wrote:
Can you be more clear/explicit?
If you line up the two images the cables will be in a different position relative to the background. Don't take my word for it, just try the next time your outside someplace where there's cables or wires. Just move your head slightly and see what happens.







