HELP WITH CLEANING A PICTURE

[dave milbut]

use the clone tool to remove the white bar.

[YrbkMgr]

Yep. Agree with Dave. Simple clone tool procedure.

[DS Nelson]

Best way to learn is to jump in and try. Just make sure you're working on a copy so you aren't modifying the original file. If you don't like the results just start over.

[dave milbut]

THREE MINUTES?!! Whatja do? Go out for coffee? :)

[YrbkMgr]

LMAO! Well, I made some mistakes with the shadows and had to start over, then began blending with the healing brush.

[OMID70]

sounds good, i'll start practicing. can achieve what i want, but it takes alot of time for each picture. and i have hundreds of pictures. i am not trying to have you do this one job for me. i use the patch tool or free trasform a selcted area next to it and drag it over. and i use a smudge tool to make the seems blend together. was just trying to see if there is a better and faster way to do it... but still, i dont know how to get rid of the dirty grey background and put the whole ring on a white background...

[Carl B. Johnson]

I would first repair the ring where the white bar crosses using the
techniques explained.. use the rubber stamp (clone tool). you should be
able to fix the pic shown in less than a minute with practise.

Next, select Edit in Quick Mask... use your pen or brush to color all
that you want to keep. I find it easiest to zoom in at 200% for this
part. The image will have a light red color where you paint or select...
after you have all selected that you want, click Edit in Standard Mode,
and then hit your Delete key.. all the background will disappear leaving
only the ring.

This is one of many, many methods you can use to delete the
background... I used this to edit about 1,000 product images this year.

[Lawrence Hudetz]

After removing the bar, you might try Color Range to select the backround. Then, quick mask to clean up any part you don't want selected.

[Frank]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:46:29 -0700, OMID70 <OHAKIM1000@AOL.COM> wrote:

>Hi, need help cleaning up the following image:
>
> <http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/omid70/lst?&.dir=/RING&.src=bc&.view=t&.begin=1&.order=&.done=http%3 a//briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/omid70/lst%3f%26.dir=/RING%26.src=bc%26.view=t>
>
>here is what i need to do. i want to get rid of the white bar holding the ring. i want to have the ring on a whitish background. i want the ring to be SHARP and SMOOTH, especially along the bottom of the shank.
>does anyone have any ideas how i can do this the most efficient way. i have aloth of pictures like this.
>you can email me the sample you did to:
>ohakim1000@aol.com
>
>thanks

Mine took about 5 or 6 minutes, I'm getting old, slowing down.
I put a shadow, then read that you wanted a plain white background, so
took it out! If you got hundreds, you'll be getting plenty of
practice.
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Regards
Frank.

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[ID. Awe]

Lawrence: This is a case where 'colour range' just will not work, there is not enough difference between the object and the background. (Use Select/Modify/Smooth to get rid of small colour selections if you go this route)

I use the polygonal lasso to create the selection, (save as path for later ref.) and then create a quick mask from that to remove background. Then clone the area where the bar is after inverting the mask.

As said earlier, there are several ways of doing this, you will eventually find the way that suits your workflow best.

[OMID70]

thank you all. your suggestions have been very helpfull. i guess with practice i will become masters like you.
thanks for your time.