Clone Tool Help

Hi,

I hope you can help me.

I've been learning Photoshop for just 3 weeks and I've already done a lot of
work on the following image.

http://img218.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=34060_rob_122_169lo.jpg

The original imaged has been Cropped & Resized and I've inserted a Layer at
the foot (made up of 5 separate Layers) with a border.

I got the faces (all those in on the joke) from other photos and got them to
all the same size and proportion and I got the border by experimenting with
the Canvas Size.

I'm pleased with my efforts so far but my attempts to remove the water hose
reel to his right with the Clone Tool have been pretty poor. I'd also like
to remove the evidence of the hosepipe to the left of his trunks and the
green hazy line on the left leg.

I know I'll be able to do this on my own in time but I'm doing this to
insert the image into a Personalized Newspaper for his 40th Birthday on 7th
Feb.... not much time to learn the skill properly

Hope you can help.... in the meantime, I'm continuing to have a go myself.


Kindest regards,

Mike

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:40:41 -0000, "Debi" <Debi.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>I hope you can help me.
>
>I've been learning Photoshop for just 3 weeks and I've already done a lot of
>work on the following image.
>
>http://img218.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=34060_rob_122_169lo.jpg
>
>The original imaged has been Cropped & Resized and I've inserted a Layer at
>the foot (made up of 5 separate Layers) with a border.
>
>I got the faces (all those in on the joke) from other photos and got them to
>all the same size and proportion and I got the border by experimenting with
>the Canvas Size.
>
>I'm pleased with my efforts so far but my attempts to remove the water hose
>reel to his right with the Clone Tool have been pretty poor. I'd also like
>to remove the evidence of the hosepipe to the left of his trunks and the
>green hazy line on the left leg.
>

There are more qualified people here than me in this area, but I would
not try to clone out the hose reel. I'd try the patch tool and move a
large section of the wall over that area and then clone to touch up
the edges near the man's body. It's difficult to clone that large an
area.

Alternatively, put a layer behind that image filled with the wall
color and delete the hose reel section from the image layer by cutting
out a selection. Use the smudge tool or the blur tool to cover any
distinct break in color.

You could even cut out the entire right wall up to the horizontal
white line on the image, and let the wall-colored layer behind show.
That would be more uniform, and the two wall sections would look the
same in color. The problem with doing the whole wall is that even
though the wall looks the same in color top-to-bottom, there is a
slight change in light/shadow.

The hosepipe to the left is a cloning job.




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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida