Well, it is that old car again. I promise it is the last time I will show it to you, well like this anyway.
The other day I showed you the video of me using ON1 Photo Raw 2023 and while doing the video I tried to remove some power poles and lines. It didn’t go as smoothly as I hoped, but I’m still trying to work out the software.
After I finished the video I thought it would be good to take a look at Photoshop and see what it could do. I wish I could say it went well, but I had problems with it as well. So I did a video so you could see.
I can think of things that would have fixed the problem now, but at the time I just did the basics. You can see in the video what I did.
I hope you are enjoying these posts processing photos. If you think there is anything I should cover let me know. Like, what are layers, how to use Camera Raw etc? I don’t know, if I can do a video on them I will.
I won’t be doing two posts a week, and maybe next time when I am comparing the two, I should do them in one post. We will see. More to come.
The old car is great
Thank you, it is amazing.
I do it your way. If it doesn’t work and you can crop, then crop.
Cropping is a great thing to be able to do and sometimes you just have to. Thanks Anne.
One thing I’ve noticed with DXO’s heal brush is it sometimes works better when you’re zoomed in quite close to the object. I’m not entirely sure the algorithm it uses — which is mostly good — but I imagine the closer you are to it, it limits the available area to select from to heal. Just a thought.
And I’m not sick of seeing that old car yet. š
That can work with Photoshop as well. Sometimes I find it easier to do things a little bit at a time. You just never know really. I haven’t used DXO so I can’t really comment on how it works. It is interesting to see what they can do.
I’m glad you aren’t sick of it. I love the old car. Thank you Matt.
Hi, Leanne: I’m going to have to learn how to do those recordings. On the power lines, did you try the Edit-> Fill (Content Aware) sequence? I find that can sometimes work. I roughly select the object with the polygon lasso, feather at 0 pixels, then click on “Edit” then select “Fill” from the drop down menu and then select “Content-Aware in the window that opens up.
I didn’t try it because you can’t do it with layers and because I use smart objects you can’t do it there either. I mean I think it would do it really well and if I really wanted to remove them from my image I would have merged all the layers and then done that. However, I was trying to sort of do what ON1 had for comparison. Thanks.
Depending on a number of powerlines, it can be done in Luminar Neo with almost one click:).
I haven’t used Luminar Neo, so I can’t really comment, I think most of them can do it, it is just how good. Thank you.
Saving this for future reference!!
Thank you Julie, good to hear.