From: Cory Waters
I have this image:
http://cwaters.smugmug.com/gallery/2793835_9yqag#767494754_zgCjn-A-LB
There were some other power lines running through the sky portion. I
was able to get them out with the spot healing brush in PS Elements 5
but it's not working so well on this one down in the trees. For some
reason I end up with a stripe of clarity running through the noise where
the wire used to be. The trees actually ended-up looking OK.
What you you guys do?
If anyone's interested, I can put the full-res image online.
Cory
My experience is to get power lines out you need to use the clone stamp,
healing brush, spot healing brush and the patch tool all at very tiny
sizes shifting back and forth between different tools frequently. I also
use the smudge and blur tools to hide edges.
You can't always take all of the line out, and have to just break up its
outline enough so it isn't readily visible.
I usually make a background copy, and then work on a duplicate of that.
Once I have a small section worked out, I'll merge the duplicate and the
background copy, then create another duplicate layer to work on the next
part. That way, if I screw something up, I can just trashcan the current
duplicate layer and resume on a new duplicate.
One thing you can do while taking the photo is take it twice from
positions 5 to 10 feet apart. The power line will shift slightly between
the two photos and you can blend the two images so that the parallax
shift hides the power line.
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