Explore this article on advanced photo editing techniques, where we delve into the process of removing a crane from the background of an image. Learn about essential commands, selection strategies, and when to prioritize details.
Key Insights
- The article offers a step-by-step guide to removing unwanted elements from an image, specifically a crane from the background, using deselect commands and other strategies.
- The author emphasizes the importance of making judgement calls during editing; understanding what details need to be perfected and which ones can be ignored due to eventual image downsizing is crucial.
- Finally, the importance of regularly saving work during the editing process is reiterated, indicating the next phase involves importing the newly edited crane image into a different scene.
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In this video, we’ll continue removing the crane from the background. Feel free to go at your own pace or follow along with me for a step-by-step example of how I’m doing this. Let’s zoom in and begin.
Remember that we’re using CTRL D to deselect. Now, let’s begin.
As a quick tip, it’s important to remember that if you can’t find the end of the selection, simply hold CTRL, and you’ll be able to close the selection the next time you click.
As you may be able to tell, I don’t know exactly where each of these pieces belong, whether they’re part of the foreground crane or the background crane, so I’ll do my best to judge for myself.
However, it’s important to remember that this will eventually be downsized in our image, so it’s not crucial to have it perfect.
At this point, I could keep going and really try to work out some of the details at the top and near the sun. However, I’m going to stop here, as it will be shrunk in our image, and at this point, it’s just not worth going through some of those tiny details.
So let’s save our work by hitting CTRL S on the keyboard. In the next video, we’ll be importing this crane into our London scene.
See you then!