Photoshop Elements 5 Editing question?

Question

I have a lovely photo of a friend of mine holding her baby, but her white bra strap is showing - a good amount of it, next to a red shirt. I've tried the healing brush, cloning the skin next to it and erasing the strap and cloning - but it's such a big area, it comes out obviously altered. Any suggestions on fixing such a big flaw in a pic? Thanks!

Answer 1

There really is no easy way to do what you want to do. I'd suggest that you first make a copy of the whole file by saving it under a new name, such a "Friend_copy" and work in the copy without messing with your original image. You may want to retrieve it and start over.

First of all, work with the image as large as you can. Hit [CTRL]+[ALT]+[0] to view it full-sized. Scroll around to get to the part you want to fix. You may even be able to work better at 150% or 200% magnification. You'd be surprised.

Use the clone tool set at 100% opacity and just paint right over the strap. Don't worry that it is not perfect at this point.

To make it less obvious, go back and set your clone tool at something like 60% opacity and do it again, overlapping the area where the strap-to-skin interface is obvious.

If it needs more work, use the spot healing brush, which is the one that also has a dotted outline near the end of the BandAid. Select "proximity match." Set the tool to a very small size, like 5-6 pixels. Move it ACROSS the area (perpendicular) that you want to blend in repeatedly until you have gone up the entire length of the blemish where the strap used to be. Keep playing with it until is is all blended in.

You might want to go up and down a few more times using the cloning tool at about 5% opacity.

It takes time and patience.

Answer 2

When I'm working with healing or cloning, I zoom in to where I can see the pixels. That way I can get exactly where I need to work. Okay, when I choose a brush, I choose one with feathering. Don't pick out the wrong size brush. Too small and you'll have to do a lot of editing over a large area. Too large and you can make mistakes at the edges. Sometimes the healing tool samples from a place I wouldn't choose, so I either try again and see if it samples from a different place (which it does sometimes), or just use the clone tool, so I can select where to sample.

You know, I just love editing this type of photos. If you want, you can send it to me and I'll see what I can do.

Answer 3

YOU CAN EASLY DO THAT...
Take the poligonal lasso tool(L) and select the area you want to change or remove. take the clone stamp tool(S)and make it brush size 40 or 60 soft end.You can select the sof and hard brushes by clicking the arrow next to the size indicator of "brush".After pasting the skin in the selected place, deselect the lasso tool,minimise the "opacity" if clonestamp up to 20 or 15,and finish the edges you stamped.

Answer 4

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