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Cleanup powerlines though trees

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pedz

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Jun 24, 2002
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I have a picture of a covered bridge and trees. The sky has these ugly power lines cutting through it that I would like to remove. When they are going through the sky, that is fairly easy. But when they cut through the trees, it gets hard to remove the power lines and not disturb the trees.

What I'm doing now is just using the air brush and I zoom up close. I use the ink dropper to pick the color I want to match and then edit out the power line.

The problem I don't like is the new "paint" is only one color (the color that I picked). What would be really cool is to be able to define a random spread of colors to give it some texture. Is that possible?

Also, in a photo editing program I used long long time ago on the PC, it had the ability to pick a point in the picture. Then you would move to another place on the picture before you started to spray with the air brush tool.. Lets say that it was exactly 45 degrees down and to the left by 50 pixels. The air brush would spray what was at the point. But with this tool, as you moved, the original point would move as well. So if you moved left by 100 pixels (spraying as you moved), the origial point would move 100 pixels left and the color that was sprayed would match the pixels under the point as it moved. (Sorta hard to describe). Does photoshop have something like that? The reason is because I would pick the point to be just below the power line and then as I moved from sky to trees, the color being sprayed would change from sky to tree. It would simplify my process.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Perry
 
You are describing the clone tool (looks like a rubber stamp in the Photoshop toolbox). You should rarely (maybe never) use the airbrush for photo touch-ups as it spits out a single color with no texture/pattern.

Stick to the clone tool.
 
This tool is also included in Photoshop! It is called the clone stamp tool and is below the eraser in the toolbar, and works pretty much exactly as you just explained. You just alt-click to select the clone source, and then paint away as usual. Nick (Software Developer)


nick@retrographics.fsnet.co.uk
nick.price@myenable.com
 
Yes the clone stamp tool works best for that. You can select an area of the image right next to a power line, and paste it on top of the line. It then looks just like the area next to it. You can follow the contour of a tree branch that way, and it looks continuous.
 
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