To remove the shoes and hand, the technique I have used with Photoshop LE is to copy a section of the sand/dirt background adjacent to it, and to then paste it repeatedly over the element you want to remove. Start with a large piece, then gradually reduce it and fill in the more awkward shapes. Alternatively, carefully outline the hand you want to keep, copy it, paste it into a temporary file. Then cut and paste the dirt background all the way across, until all trace of the hand(s) and shoes are gone, then copy and paste the hand you want to keep back in. In both cases, you may want to use the 'smudge' tool to feather the edges of the joins.
I am aware that the use of layers in Photoshop may provide an easier way, but I haven't yet used it, so can't advise there. HTH John Coyle Brisbane, Australia PS - if you like, I could do it on a copy of the image to show the result, and email it back off-list - just let me know? On Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:47 AM, Nitin Garg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > In the picture at > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~nitin/fast-bw/feeding-hand.jpg > > i find the shoes and hand of the second person in the background > distracting. Any tips on how to "erase" it by tiling the other > background over it? > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
