Help with clothing stain removal

[bkoopers]

Can some help me remove the clothing stain under the right shoulder of the guy with the green shirt?

The above image is the highest resolution version of the file I have.

The photo is being used at this website:

http://www.lourdsmusic.com/photoband1.htm

This is the website of the New York City band, LOURDS (someday soon to make it big). I am the webmaster for their website. That photo is of three members of the LOURDS band with Juliya (the Fuse TV network VJ) (second from the left)

Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

 

[mscallisto]

Looks like a great job for the Clone Stamp tool...have you tried it?

 

[bkoopers]

I experimented with the Clone Stamp tool but my technique is too crude and the results do not look good. Do you have any specific directions for utilizing that tool to do a seemless job in this case?

 

[mscallisto]

You want to capture an area of cloth that would match the arm pit area minus the stain and replace the stained area.

You show start by choosing the magnifying tool and blow up the section you need to replace. Next choose the clone tool and pick a brush size to capture an adjacent area (non stained) and replace the stained area piece by piece.

Hold the alt key and click on an un-stained area, release the alt key, move the cursor to the stained area and click.

Yow will need to play with brush sizes and do this piece by piece...otherwise it's no sweat!

Seriously it can be done, not perfectly but good enough to make the stain go away.

 

[frozenpeas]

Try the Right Guard tool.

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[bkrike]

omg- thanks for the laughs peas

I really don’t find the sweat stain all that bad- it just shows maybe he has been working. You could however easily fix the dribble marks on the front of his shirt with a clone.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

What about selecting the colours in the dry area and comparing against the "same" colours in the damp area.
Find the difference and select the damp area and apply a curve to alter the colours from the wet to make them look dry.
The hardest part will probably be the selection.


Trojan.

 

[WestCoastKid]

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=iy0fp3

http://tinypic.com/iy0h3d.jpg

I tried...I'm no PS guru.

 

[jconingham]

Instead of using the clone tool what about using dodge? All this stain does is make the cloth look darker in relation to the rest.

 

[kiddpete]

Although I'm turned off by the wearing of camoulflage clothing by someone who appears to be unjustifiably pleased with himself, the clone tool doesn't seem to be a correct approach. Why not just add an adjustment layer to increase the brightness of this dark area to match the surrounding fabric? Any residual 'border' can be disbursed with the patch tool.

 

[barehug]

Kiddpete's idea would work well here - try selecting the stained area (brush in Quick mask mode) and create a layer from the selection and try the screen blending mode; then just adjust the opacity and use the cloen or healing brush a the the edges.

like so maybe - obviously you will spend more than a minute on it!

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.