I've got a client who has his name on a picture of the food he produces. He wants to move the copy around. I've got to remove it from one part of the picture and place it on another part. That's not the difficult part...how do I repair the background after removing the copy? It's got to be seamless.
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Terry, Without seeing it, I can't tell you what will be involved. If its not much more than a meg, send it to me and I can probably do it. Ifits too big for my land line, send me a very small, scaled down version for me to look at and tell you what to do. signs@usol.com
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Terry, please let us know how Laura fixes your image. Just in case she knows some new tricks we can all might be able to use. Thanks
[ July 08, 2004, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Get familiar with the Clone tool.
Just keep track of your time so you can bill the customer for it.
Posted by Mike Paul (Member # 4200) on :
Use the marquee or lasso tool and go around the type or area you want to move. Go to copy and then paste to the area you want to put it in. Detail move it in place w/ the move tool. Patch the old area w/ the clone tool. Blend the outer pixels with other tools such as blur, sharpen, smudge etc. Mike
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
Just to add to the above methods - instead of just selecting and moving those parts, try adding in the step of either copying or cutting them to a new layer to preserve their isolation.
That way they are easier to touchup if needed and way easier to move around and manipulate.
Once it's to your liking, save as PSD preserving the layers and then flatten and Save As in whatever format you prefer for production.
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Terry, I worked with it a little last night and got the copy down in the lower left. I didn't like it there at all. With all the candy in the background, it made it toooo busy and way less readable. Whoever did it orginially, did it just right. For some reason the copy that I got was causing glitches in PShop. I could not copy and paste and keep each layer. For some reason when I pasted, the two layers merged immediately.
