Photoshop, how do ..............?

[R&J]

How do I remove colour and blur the background of a photo (now the tricky bit)that can be see through a brides veil.



I have created layers,
removed the colour from one
selected only the Bride and Groom on another

the black and white layer (background layer) has been blurred but I can still see sharp colour through the brides veil.
It is this that I want to correct.

any ideas?

[Simpo Two]

A sharp colour veil over a blurred b/w background... hmm... dunno, I don't use artifical blur.

Maybe someone cleverer than me can help, but you may have stepped on a photographic rake there!

[TigerS6]

Can you not mask out the veil as another layer, convert it to B&W, and maybe increase the contrast slightly to separate the white of the veil against the background?

[CY88]

With a background as blurred as you've made it, you wouldn't see any detail of the person behind through the veil anyway, so i would just use the clone brush on the veil intself to take out the offending bits.

Edited by CY88 on Thursday 13th May 12:12

[rasputin]

I would probably try blurring/desaturating that bit of veil, then in another layer clone from a "clean" bit of veil on top of that and find the right opacity.

No idea if it would work, but hopefully would leave you with clean veil and a little bit of soft/B&W background detail behind it.

[rasputin]

Alternatively, this took 10 seconds. One swipe of the "Healing Tool" in The Gimp:

[AndyKH]

Like this? Very very easy, don't try and over complicate it. Brush tool, set to colour with black as the selected colour. Brush over the areas you want B+W, then select the blur tool, and brush over the areas you want blurred but do not cross the edge of the veil so it stays 'crisp'.

Edited by AndyKH on Thursday 13th May 14:23

[The_Jackal]

Use a layer mask on the top layer to select the bride and groom.
It would be a good chance to try out the new Refine Edges/Mask feature in CS5.

[R&J]

AndyKH said:

Like this? Very very easy, don't try and over complicate it. Brush tool, set to colour with black as the selected colour. Brush over the areas you want B+W, then select the blur tool, and brush over the areas you want blurred but do not cross the edge of the veil so it stays 'crisp'.

Thanks I'll give it a go.

[R&J]

This is OKish the veil still looks a bit to blurry, I clearly need more practice.

Now I need to do something with their faces now



thanks for your help guys..............the power of PH

Edited by R&J on Thursday 13th May 16:47

[d1d215]

is that Adam and Kelly ?

[R&J]

d1d215 said:

is that Adam and Kelly ?

Adam and Kelly who??????

or am I missing the punchline?

[d1d215]

[quote=R&J]

d1d215 said:

is that Adam and Kelly ?

Adam and Kelly who??????

or am I missing the punchline?

I just thought that I knew these faces from somewhere !