Photoshop Quick Tip: getting rid of unwanted object(s)

 

 

 

Hello everyone!

Today I took a picture of my cat threw my window when she was begging for food again :)

Strangely, she stared at the camera for a few seconds which gave me time to take her picture. It's great cause she's a cat that moves a lot.

So I loaded it up to my computer only to remember that there was the thermometer in the way. Having received the new photoshop cs6 only a week or two ago, I'm still learning all the new buttons and options that didn't exist on photoshop 7.

 

I wanted to share with the new photoshoppers out there, a method to get rid of something unwanted in the background of a picture: here it being a thermometer.

 

So here is Kitty, my little chubby cat:

 

 

 

So let's start!

 

1. Open your picture in Photoshop :)

 

2. Select the Marquee tool or the Lasso tool (on the left tools bar)

 

3. select the object

4. Select edit > fill

 

5. Now you can select the "contents" you want in the drop down box thingy but I just select "Content-aware"

Mode:normal

Opacity: 100%

 

 

And voila!

 

Here is my photo of Kitty after these steps in Photoshop:

 

 

So that was my Photoshop Quick Tip of the day! Keep in mind that this is the way I do it and that it's in no way the only way to do it.

 

Thank you for reading and I wish everyone a great day!

Photoshop Quick Tips

If you have a point and shoot camera like me (especially if it's an inexpensive one) you'll need this tip for your photos!
This tip is a basic one that everyone in the world of photography knows, and might think boring to put in a post. But about a year or two ago, when I started using Photoshop, this tip was amazing in my eyes so I hope it will help all the new beginners.

So let's start: I was in Paris this weekend (I will soon post the photos) and while we were stuck in traffic, I saw this ad on the back of a bus: a Schweppes ad with Uma Thurman, one of my favourite actresses.
I loved the picture so I took the photo with my camera and thought it was good quality - till I uploaded it to my computer and was surprised at the lack of colour.

The original Photo- taken with my fujifilm A150

So here's what I did to it to make it look just that bit better:

1- Open the image in Photoshop

2-go to Image > adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

you'll see this: 

All you have to do is pull the brightness and contrast to the right, until is looks good. It is best to make the contrast stronger than the brightness.

3- go to Image > adjustments > Hue/Saturation

Pull the saturation to the right to give the picture a splash of colour.

4- Press Layer > Flatten Image
5- (Optional): To bring attention to Uma, I darkened the edge of the image with a photoshop action:

If you don't have this action, there is a way to do it but it would be too long to explain in this post, so you can look it up on internet.

And this is the result:

you can now compare:

So that was it! It was very easy and only needs a couple of seconds but it does all the difference!

I hope this helped some of you, especially if  beginners. For any questions, leave me a comment or send me an email!