Help with crop

Inevitability

Inevitability

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Managed to catch my baby while she was off the ground, but I also caught alot of unwanted stuff, like the neighbour's baby's leaky nose (... shame man!)
So I need help with how to crop it.

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Open it up in Paint (provided you're running Windows)

Do a selection (of your baby without all the other crap)

Hit Ctrl+C (or click Edit then Copy)

Open up a new copy of Paint

Hit Ctrl+V (or click Edit then Paste)

Save
Enjoy.
 
Inevitability said:
Hehe.. I should've said i wanted help on how to compose the crop (if that's the correct terminology)
But thanks for the reply anyway :)
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Good composition is not really my strength, but here are my thoughts:
You would like to leave room to the right, i.e., usually you want your subject to face into/look into open space, rather than the edge of the image. This is particularly problematic for simple cropping, since the neighbour's kid makes that impossible. I would attempt to clone out the neighbour's kid before cropping --- you can try to apply some out-of-focus blurring to the background to hide the evidence.

You can try GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) --- it has a passable cloning tool.
 
fvdbergh said:
I would attempt to clone out the neighbour's kid before cropping --- you can try to apply some out-of-focus blurring to the background to hide the evidence.
You can try GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) --- it has a passable cloning tool.
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Thanks! ... I'll give it a shot. I am familiar with GIMP... But I've only erver used it for basic editing.

biena said:
What other kid ?
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WTF!!??!! Incredible!!!
 
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Rosaudio said:
Welcome to the world of content aware :D
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...a term which I had to Google just now... Amazing!

fvdbergh said:
you can try to apply some out-of-focus blurring to the background to hide the evidence.
You can try GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program)
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I Googled a tutorial on faking DoF... Results (for my untrained eye) are really something!
 
Inevitability said:
Managed to catch my baby while she was off the ground, but I also caught alot of unwanted stuff, like the neighbour's baby's leaky nose (... shame man!)
So I need help with how to crop it.

Liftoff:
liftoff800x600.jpg


data:
liftoffmetay.jpg
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just take the snot out her nose (or do you like her to look like a loner)?

Beautiful girl btw :)
 
marine1 said:
Yes I know it but how in photoshop? :D
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Photoshop has a feature called Content-Aware fill. You can select an area of the image and PS looks at the surrounding elements and makes an intelligent estimation of how to "fill in" the area you selected in order to remove the object you don't want. It uses the pixels of your image and a lot of advanced algorithms to generate new content for that space with correct lighting, colouring and tone.

Here's a short video that shows it in action on Adobe's site: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-cs5-feature-tour/contentaware-fill/
 
AniV said:
Photoshop has a feature called Content-Aware fill. You can select an area of the image and PS looks at the surrounding elements and makes an intelligent estimation of how to "fill in" the area you selected in order to remove the object you don't want. It uses the pixels of your image and a lot of advanced algorithms to generate new content for that space with correct lighting, colouring and tone.

Here's a short video that shows it in action on Adobe's site: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-cs5-feature-tour/contentaware-fill/
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Amazing Thanks
 
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