punkysmonky asked for help on making this photo better. As you can see the background is a bit cluttered – the black should reach all the way up the frame, or the white should reach to the floor. That aside, it’s a lovely family portrait, so it was worth half an hour of my time in an effort to make it into something that could go in a photo frame. (more…)
I’ve written another “cloning” tutorial. This one explains how to use layer masks to achieve the result with the benefit of being able to fix mistakes in the cloning.
Read it here.
Following on from my “Multiplicity: Pouring yourself a beer” tutorial that used the eraser tool to merge the images, this slightly more advanced tutorial explains how to use layer masks to achieve the result. Layer masks are better suited to this because you can selectively “undo” changes to the layer long after you’ve made other changes. (more…)
This is a remake of this photo. I had the fifth image but forgot to include it. Technically the photo is rubbish. The lighting is awful and the wide angle has distorted the edges of the frame.
I used the technique here, but used layer masks rather than the eraser. Layer masks give you scope to “undo” your changes without having to undo changes that you want to keep, so they’re far superior for processes like this.
There are many cloned images where the same person appears several times in the frame, but few of them involve the person interacting with themselves – they’re mostly just the same person in different, sometimes overlapping, poses. They’re a bit boring. (more…)
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