Photoshop help

[DDT uk]

I know that this is topside but I have a picture that I like. The trouble is that I do not like the bit of a bird on the far right. Removing him makes it look like a squabble between two birds.

Here is the picture:



The question is how to remove it. In my minute knowledge of PS2 I have tried copying bits of the water from the other side but the water is a different colour. Can someone give me some points. Obviously, this picture is only a 1000x600 jpg and I want to do it on the tiff so I need to be told rather than have someone do it for me.

Many thanks
Daniel

[Cussy]

Daniel,
Is this one of a sequence? If it is, find one that hasn't got the other bird in. Make the two images different layers and align them. Then on the one without the bird remove using the rubber bits you want to keep in the main image. Once you are there, smudge the edge and blend the two images.

These sort of show what I mean. I did these to show how I did underwater panoramas in PS a while ago:


HTH,
Rob

[Mike W]

Try using the clone tool to remove the bird, sampling the water from multiple points in the picture, then, when it's gone, go overt he newly cloned-over area using the healing tool. That one is supposed to look at surrounding pixels and match surrounding areas rather than just importing copies of other pixels.

I've used this idea to remove divers from pictures without the resulting area looking the wrong tone and texture.

If it doesn't work I'll be as interested as you to see what a real expert can tell us!

[triplefin]

Like Mike I was going to suggest the clone tool. I've never used the healing tool afterwards tho so next time I'll have to try that.