Comments on: Photoshop Tutorial: Removing Crowds

By: Kebman

Kebman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:32:44 +0000

If there’s a lot of people, the “deltas” don’t get high enough to be completely cut out. The result are semi transparent ghosts in the finished image.

You need to be carefull about taking enough frames before applying this technique, or else you’ll be needing to use that old Clone Stamp Tool a lot anyway.

Also, consider cleaning up a few frames manually, by marking out areas with crowd, and going to another frame without crowd, copy it, and then paste it in a folder over the top frame.

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Correcting lines and cropping is made real easy with Camera RAW 5.3. Just click the angle tool, drag you line, and the picture will automatically be corrected and cropped to the line you’ve drawn.

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By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:59:54 +0000

Thanks for publishing this Fred – there’s some really cool stuff in that video.

The trouble is that I nearly missed it because I listen to TWIP but don’t always catch the blog… is there any chance you can get future videos into the TWIP iTunes feed?

Thanks again, Mark

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:08:22 +0000

Well done tutorial on a very interesting and helpful trick to know!!! Also, as a 911 Dispatcher of over 4 years, you have the perfect radio voice!

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Fri, 23 May 2008 09:46:11 +0000

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By: Alex S

Alex S — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:43:13 +0000

Hi Frederick,

As an example, taking 5 shots per second of a person jumping off a cliff, hand held. Is there a photoshop tool that will open all 5 photos, aligns them (as there is handheld wobble) and shows the diver in 5 different positions at the same time?

The reason I asked in this article is that I know little of the new SmartObjects and automations, and this sounds like something they could do. Can they? Or does it still need to be done with the stick shift?

thanks,
alex s.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:19 +0000

So, you mean like a composite? I think that would be better accomplished using more “traditional” tools like layer masks, layer transparency, and alpha channels?

Can you describe a use case?

By: Alex S

Alex S — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:02:46 +0000

Hi Frederick,

an excellent video, I enjoyed it very much. One thing that would be great for you to go over would be the opposite: a series of action shots with the same background, but instead of removing the deltas, having them all in?

By: Al Ruggeri

Al Ruggeri — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:26 +0000

Thank you. This was a great video.

By: Ed Heaton

Ed Heaton — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:02:23 +0000

Great video and extremely useful!!! Thank you for sharing…

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:33:40 +0000

I want to thank you for the wonderful video “Removing People”, I had no idea that this could be done. I was hoping that there was a step by step written version of this tutorial available for download. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your consideration and also for the knowledge you share.
Tony

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:58:15 +0000

@Dennis, yes this is a Photoshop CS3 Extended feature. It was originally designed for medical image analysis.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:52:58 +0000

Does this only work in the extended version of CS3? I tried this last night, but did not get an option to create a smart object from the stack in the Stacks dialog box.

By: Griff

Griff — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:58:29 +0000

Fred – Thank you for sharing. I often use this technique for creating a “clean plate” for compositing work. Lightroom Rockz!! see you at NAB?

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By: Simon Ratcliffe

Simon Ratcliffe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:05:22 +0000

Thanks for coming through on you promise in such style. Nice job. Great in fact!

By: subcorpus

subcorpus — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:08:08 +0000

great tutorial …
thank you …

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:39:47 +0000

@David

When I’m flipping through the images at the beginning of this tutorial, I’m just using the “Quick Look” feature in Mac OS X Leopard. Just select a file and hit Command+Y, or tap the space bar — the file will pop open.

This works for most file types, including PDF, XLS, most image types, sound files, video, etc. It’s almost second nature for me now.

That said, Apple explains it better than I can.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quicklook.html

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Photoshop Tutorial: Removing Crowds :: FrederickVan.com « Rick Milliken — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:58:03 +0000

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By: David

David — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:17:38 +0000

Great tutorial,

At the start when you are flipping through the individual images, what are you using to do this? That’s not the normal view in Preview.app, it buggs me that the default image viewer in OS X doesn’t allow you to eaisly flip through photos one at a time. Is this some weird Cover-flow setting I’m not familiar with?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:46:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip, it will come in handy!