Photoshop Help?

[paulrockliffe]

Not sure if this is the right place, but I have a series of pictures that I want to compose into one. I've done a rough mock-up in Paint:



What I'd like to do is tidy it up so that all the background is consistent, doesn't need to be photographer perfect, just not immediately obvious that it's three pictures with a jarring line between them. It's not for anything special other than Facebook and whatnot, but I'd like to use it to work on my (limited) photoshop skills. I am going to print it, but I'll put it on three separate canvasses so the lines don't matter.

So, remove the swings and bench and copy the background over the top of some of the bits that jar. I can recrop the left hand picture so that all the tree trunks run off the top of the picture, so I don't need to mess around with the trunks.

The idea is to make it look like a lovely picture of the kids, but when you look closely, yes he has just smashed her in the head with the largest apple that was to hand. She didn't cry, so this isn't child abuse.

I have Photoshop CC 2018, so hints and tips using that would be great!

Thanks

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[paulrockliffe]

I deliberately haven't asked anyone to do any photoshoping........

[Whoozit]

I'd put the left image on the right. Tells a nice story

You're asking for the near impossible, or a good couple of hours of pro work, whichever is more expensive. Horizons and alignment don't match, different lighting on left and right of each image, no obvious places to join them. Easier to turn into a triptych.

[RobDickinson]

Drop them all on a canvas, add masks, use gradient on masks between images.

Id tidy them up before that, clone out the bench etc and adjust the exposure so there similar

[Heres Johnny]

One techique is to flip the middle one and try and roughly align the left edge of one and the right edge of the other as they’re almost mirror images and so items and colour should be close - the composition can make it look really odd and might here but it’s a way to extend a scene. Then blur over the join using a bit of the clone tool with some opacity on the grass.

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

Flipping the middle one will certainly make things easier. Are those images cropped? If you have some spare around the sides it'd be much easier to blend them.