Dreamy background effects
Maybe not "dreamy", but might allow a better look than the "flat fog" that guassian blur tends to give.
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The most annoying thing here is the two most prominent guest are my son and daughter, I could have just yelled for them to lose themselves.
I am actually considering going back to the venue and snapping the exterior again.
I'm using Photoshop 7
How about something in another direction...
Instead of removing the background, use it as an area to place another image. Perhaps a closeup of the bride's face in the upper right, or fade in a page from the invitation, etc... along the whole right side?
VERY roughly:
combined with gausian blur you should be able to quickly make her the center of attention.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
I've already had a go at cloning out the unwanted figures but the results are a bit rough, your technique should just about finish it off and hide the dodgy cloning......what do I do?
That would be ideal Ken, thanks.
I've already had a go at cloning out the unwanted figures but the results are a bit rough, your technique should just about finish it off and hide the dodgy cloning......what do I do?
Easy peasy really... firstly I straightened the pic up and cropped it a bit to get rid of other distractions, then created a copy layer and applied some gaussian blur to that. I then used the eraser tool at 100% to rub a hole in the blurred layer over the bride. Use a fine tool on the edges, then you can whack away at the centre with a bigger one. You now have a a very odd picture with the bride floating over the bg! set the eraser to, say 75% and start rubbing out the blurred layer from the bottom reducing the eraser as you go maybe finishing up at 50%. I suspect there will be away of doing this using a graduated layer - someone will know
Best of luck
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
I just tried applying GB to the whole image and its way different to what I had before:::
Maybe the way I applied the mask affected the way GB worked, going to try it Kens way and see what the finished result is like.
Watch this space
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Gausian Blur just doesn't seem to have the desired effect, and I would prefer to give it a "dreamy" feel.
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