60 http://www.digitalcameraworld.com
PhotoshoP ElEmEnts
The Mission
Remove people
from pictures using
ElementsTime needed
10 minutesSkill level
BeginnerKit needed- Photoshop
Elements
out of the frame
Dan Mold runs through three ways to remove people from landscapes in
Photoshop Elements to achieve perfectly clean images of tourist hotspotsf you’re trying to achieve
a postcard look with your
landscapes then it’s a
good idea to make sure
the photo is free of
pedestrians, so the viewer’s
attention is focused solely
on your focal point. But this
is easier said than done, and
whether you’re shooting the Eiffel
Tower in Paris or Big Ben in
London, you’re bound to get at
least a few bystanders in shot.
It’s even quite a task to get a
clean shot of lesser known gems
like Ogmore castle in Wales.You could get up early to
increase your chances of having
the spot to yourself, or blur the
people in the scene with a long
exposure. However, that doesn’t
help you if you’ve already taken
the image. With that in mind I’m
going to show you three different
methods that you can use in
Photoshop CC and Elements 2019.
We’ll start with the easy to use
and automated Spot Healing
Brush tool, then move on to the
Clone Stamp tool, which lets you
take on more manual control and
finish off with the Patch tool. Thislets you replace a large chunk of
‘bad’ pixels from your scene with a
good selection from the
surrounding image – it’s then
blended in and Photoshop usually
does an impressive job!
If you’ve got a suitable image
just load it up, but if you don’t and
would like to try out the technique
you can download our Ogmore.
JPEG start image through the
download link (bottom left).
Ready to remove some people?
Follow along with the
accompanying video, or the step
by step guide, to see how.i
AfTer
Video Also online
http://bit.ly/pp_155_5DownloaD projecT fileS
To your compuTer from:
http://downloads.
photoplusmag.com/pp155.zipBefore
View The V
ideo