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Thursday, June 18, 2015
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How to remove an object from a scene and create background content to fill the hole using PSE9
Is there a tool in PSE which can help you remove an object or a person from foreground of an image by filling it with the background content?
So in my source image above, I wanted to remove the girl from the temple and have just the building.
It may be achievable with clone tool, however it would really be a big time task.
Yes, there is one which was introduced in PSE 9. So here are my initial and final images to show what this tutorial will help you achieve through this tutorial:
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| Initial image |
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| Final image |
So in my source image above, I wanted to remove the girl from the temple and have just the building.
It may be achievable with clone tool, however it would really be a big time task.
For non-complex images, it may just take seconds to fix that photo using content aware spot healing by doing just a couple of dabs
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However, I choose an image which is complex as we need to remove a person whose background is not consistent throughout. It has the dark area inside the gate, the gate boundaries, the sculptured wall, the ground with variations in textures and colors. And spot healing from previous versions of PSE might not work since it does not have that intelligence to create content from background and fill it with it.
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However, I choose an image which is complex as we need to remove a person whose background is not consistent throughout. It has the dark area inside the gate, the gate boundaries, the sculptured wall, the ground with variations in textures and colors. And spot healing from previous versions of PSE might not work since it does not have that intelligence to create content from background and fill it with it.
1. Open the image in Editor.
2. Select Spot healing tool from the left tool bar.
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| The spot healing brush properties in top properties bar |
3. Now keeping "Content-Aware" option selected in Properties panel, a keeping brugh size of the area not very big(which can be incremented and decremented using ],[ keys), start brushing(dabbing) over the object you want to remove.
So here are some tips which I have learnt on using this tool again and again :
1. In the image above, for areas marked in red, I could use a bigger brush size without worrying much as the background behind the red mark is not very complex and is consistent, and I am not worried much as there are change in colors, no linear planes changing etc. So I can do this part quickly.
2. The areas marked in yellow are bit complicated as they have carvings on the wall. So would be good to start dabbing the brush with small size from the area near to the yellow area boundary in a linear manner. So if you see the carvings on the wall, they are horizontally linear. So it would be good if I start from the left near the boundary of the yellow area towards right horizonally.
3. The areas marked in blue(In L shape) is the area which should be taken care alittle meticulously since it has the frame of the door which has straight lines which need to be content created. So for this I reduced the brush size so that it did not cover the breadth of the frame and started from left such that the brush area includes the area of the existing frame(white frame area). However, this decision making may vary from image to image which would come to you as you try this tool a few times. For non-complex images, it may just take seconds to fix that photo using content aware spot healing and you may not have to do any such decision making. But for complex images, you might need a little thinking to get the best results.
4. For the area in purple, I used clone tool as it was quicker for that scenario. Spot healing content aware brushcould also have been used.
Here is my final result :
Hope this tutorial helps!!!
So here are some tips which I have learnt on using this tool again and again :
1. In the image above, for areas marked in red, I could use a bigger brush size without worrying much as the background behind the red mark is not very complex and is consistent, and I am not worried much as there are change in colors, no linear planes changing etc. So I can do this part quickly.
3. The areas marked in blue(In L shape) is the area which should be taken care alittle meticulously since it has the frame of the door which has straight lines which need to be content created. So for this I reduced the brush size so that it did not cover the breadth of the frame and started from left such that the brush area includes the area of the existing frame(white frame area). However, this decision making may vary from image to image which would come to you as you try this tool a few times. For non-complex images, it may just take seconds to fix that photo using content aware spot healing and you may not have to do any such decision making. But for complex images, you might need a little thinking to get the best results.
4. For the area in purple, I used clone tool as it was quicker for that scenario. Spot healing content aware brushcould also have been used.
Here is my final result :
Hope this tutorial helps!!!
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
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How to create your own theme templates using PSE and have them in your content panels
You can create your own custom themes for the different creations like Greeting card, Photo book, CD/DVD jacket etc and have them placed in your content panel of Photoshop Elements Editor.
Here are the steps with which I created my own theme "Mothers Day" for Mothers day and had it placed in my content panel.
1. Create a blank file from File>New>Blank File. Select default size of the file.
2. Now paint it with the color you like. I painted pink and used gradient tool to give non monotonous effect of the background.
3. Save this as a jpeg on your hard drive. This step is workaround for PSE8 where there is no way of creating a smart object from a leyer as we had in PSE7. Once you have saved the jpeg, click on close widget of the file you were previously working with. It will ask you to save the untitled file. Say No. This will bring back the file you were working till step 2.
4. Now select the background layer from layers pallette and File>Place and select the jpeg saved at step 3. Click on the green checkmark shown shown over the image.
As soon as you do this, you would notice that there is a layer created as a smart object with a tiny icon on the layer thumbnail as shown below. And this layer is exactly as your background layer.
So by now, you would have understood why we saved the background as a separate jpeg in step3. The reason is, in PSE8, we can create smart objects using File>Place. In PSE 7, we do not need the step 3 as we can directly create the background layer as a smart object. This is a workaround in PSE8.
5. Now you can create a duplicate of this smart object layer by pressing Control+J and delete the original background layer.
6. From Window meniu, select Content. This will result in Content pane appear in right hand panel.
7. Select "By Type" from Category and "Frames" in sub category.
8. Drag a frame from the frames shown in the content bin to the image. Once you do this, you will notice that the blending mode for the frame dropped is "Pass through".
9. Add text layer and put some text to your theme. I am creating a Mothers day greeting card template in this example. So I added the text as shown below.
11. Save this file as a psd. I saved it as "Mothers day.psd"
12. Create a template file with name "<filename>.metadata.xml". I created "Mothers day.metadata.xml"
13. Copy the following into your xml file :
**************************************************************************
Also note that you can edit the categories and sub categories as per your needs. For example my above theme will appear under category Event and sub category Celebration. Similarly in category Color and sub category Pink.
You can customize these as per your needs.
14. Now place your jpeg and your metadata xml file at location :
On XP : C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Photo Creations hemes
On Win 7 : C:ProgramDataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Photo Creations hemes
Please make sure that your Editor is closed and you relaunch it to see the background created in your content pane.
If you still do not find it in the content pane in Background category, close Editor and rename the file : "C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Localeen_USMediaDatabase.db3" followed by application relaunch. The launch may take sometime as application creates thumbnails for your background at the location where you have created your jpeg.
After relaunch, here is where I see my Mothers day theme in Content Panel from Create Pane>Photo Book or Greeting Card :
I hope you find this tutorial useful!
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Here are the steps with which I created my own theme "Mothers Day" for Mothers day and had it placed in my content panel.
1. Create a blank file from File>New>Blank File. Select default size of the file.
2. Now paint it with the color you like. I painted pink and used gradient tool to give non monotonous effect of the background.
3. Save this as a jpeg on your hard drive. This step is workaround for PSE8 where there is no way of creating a smart object from a leyer as we had in PSE7. Once you have saved the jpeg, click on close widget of the file you were previously working with. It will ask you to save the untitled file. Say No. This will bring back the file you were working till step 2.
4. Now select the background layer from layers pallette and File>Place and select the jpeg saved at step 3. Click on the green checkmark shown shown over the image.
As soon as you do this, you would notice that there is a layer created as a smart object with a tiny icon on the layer thumbnail as shown below. And this layer is exactly as your background layer.
So by now, you would have understood why we saved the background as a separate jpeg in step3. The reason is, in PSE8, we can create smart objects using File>Place. In PSE 7, we do not need the step 3 as we can directly create the background layer as a smart object. This is a workaround in PSE8.
5. Now you can create a duplicate of this smart object layer by pressing Control+J and delete the original background layer.
6. From Window meniu, select Content. This will result in Content pane appear in right hand panel.
7. Select "By Type" from Category and "Frames" in sub category.
8. Drag a frame from the frames shown in the content bin to the image. Once you do this, you will notice that the blending mode for the frame dropped is "Pass through".
9. Add text layer and put some text to your theme. I am creating a Mothers day greeting card template in this example. So I added the text as shown below.
10. Now select all the layers in the palette and right click>Duplicate. This will create duplicate of all layers. Right click again and Merge. name this layer as thumb.
12. Create a template file with name "<filename>.metadata.xml". I created "Mothers day.metadata.xml"
13. Copy the following into your xml file :
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><PSEContent xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/PSEContent/2.0/"><name value="$$$/content/themes/Mothers Day=Mothers Day" /><type value="theme" /><creation value="1x1" /><creation value="2x3" /><creation value="3x4" /><creation value="cddvdlabel" /><creation value="cdjacket" /><creation value="dvdjacket" /><creation value="photobook" /><creation value="1x1photobook" /><creation value="3x4photobook" /><category value="$$$/content/category/Event=Event"><subcategory value="$$$/content/category/Event/Celebration=Celebration" /></category><category value="$$$/content/category/Color=Color"><subcategory value="$$$/content/category/Color/Pink=Pink" /></category><category value="$$$/content/category/Style=Style"><subcategory value="$$$/content/category/Style/Cute=Cute" /></category><category value="$$$/content/category/Object=Object" /><category value="$$$/content/category/Mood=Mood"><subcategory value="$$$/content/category/Mood/Fun=Fun" /></category><keyword value="$$$/content/keyword/Toys=Toys" /></PSEContent>
**************************************************************************
Replace the text in the tag with your filename : <name value="$$$/content/themes/<filename>=<filename>" />Also note that you can edit the categories and sub categories as per your needs. For example my above theme will appear under category Event and sub category Celebration. Similarly in category Color and sub category Pink.
You can customize these as per your needs.
14. Now place your jpeg and your metadata xml file at location :
On XP : C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Photo Creations hemes
On Win 7 : C:ProgramDataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Photo Creations hemes
Please make sure that your Editor is closed and you relaunch it to see the background created in your content pane.
If you still do not find it in the content pane in Background category, close Editor and rename the file : "C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataAdobePhotoshop Elements8.0Localeen_USMediaDatabase.db3" followed by application relaunch. The launch may take sometime as application creates thumbnails for your background at the location where you have created your jpeg.
After relaunch, here is where I see my Mothers day theme in Content Panel from Create Pane>Photo Book or Greeting Card :
I hope you find this tutorial useful!
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