I need to ask a photochop guru for a favor...

VicodinVicodin Chicago
edited June 2004 in Internet & Media
My oldest recently graduated 8th grade. I took a decent picture of all the graduates throwing their caps into the air. It's something I would like to keep forever and share with a few other parents but there is one small problem...

...the back of some curly haired woman's head in the foreground.

I can't seem to remove it and rebuild the obstructed kid's bodies in a suitable fashion.

I'm not ashamed to admit - it's beyond my skill set.

Anyone out there care to have pity on my pathetic soul and take a shot at it?

Thanks.

Fold on.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Slap up a copy of the picture, and I'm sure you'll have a slew of people trying their hand at it.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Post it up, and with all the photoshop hobbyists here, it'll get taken care of for sure :)
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited May 2004
    Complete brain cramp.

    I thought I did post it...

    Oy.

    Thanks again guys.

    Fold on.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Oh wow.. That's a toughie :)
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Thats more than a toughie, you're asking the impossible. You can't remove something like that because the picture isn't taken with layers. You can remove it and fudge the underlying image with parts from elsewhere, if thats what you want it can be done...but what do you want more? A genuine pic of you and your friends on a happy day? Or a photochopped image thats got parts of it that are fake in order to remove some lady's head?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    No, he's not asking the impossible. I've got a few thoughts brewing in my head about how I would go about fixing it up as per the request.
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited May 2004
    ...of me and my friends?

    (chuckle)

    Seeing as I have the original, I'm hoping to make one frameable so to answer to question yes, I'd rather that section were piecemealed together using parts of some of the other kid's bodies and have that head removed.

    Fold on.
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited May 2004
    What I've been trying to do is something along these lines...

    taking #1's body on the left, mirroring it and using it as the body for #1 on the right.

    Then taking a portion of #2's (on the right) gown and filling it over the part obstructed by the head on the #2 left.

    Visually it seems like it may work.. once again - that's where the lack of ability portion of the program comes in.

    (sigh)

    Fold on.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    You want a photochopped pic then?
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited May 2004
    For what it will be used to do...

    Yes.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    I'll see what I can do. Just wanted to make sure you knew parts of it were gonna be uber faked
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    It looks like a dog..... Or maybe cousin it...
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited May 2004
    Like this?
  • MrBillMrBill Missouri Member
    edited May 2004
    MediaMan wrote:
    Like this?
    Wow! Where'd that hairy blob go?

    Nice work MM! :thumbsup:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    With a bit of touchup to remove that blue shadow, it'll be perfect :)

    :thumbsup: to whoever did it!
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Since when do 8th graders get caps and gowns?

    Am I the only one who thinks that's uncommon?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    It is uncommon. But then again, it looks like a private school of the religious type... They do things diff'r'nt round thar! :)
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    It is uncommon. But then again, it looks like a private school of the religious type... They do things diff'r'nt round thar! :)

    If they do it at all! :eek:
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited June 2004
    My contribution...

    Late but nevertheless...

    [img]http://home.ptd.net/~lawnmm/BobbyGrad copy5.jpg[/img]
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Remind me that you guys are the good guys.... WOW. I couldn't even begin to think what you guys could do if in the hands of EVIL, like the STAR magazines or any other tabloid...

    Great job...
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited June 2004
    Go ahead QCH...post your pic here. We'll be good...honest.

    /me has fingers crossed.

    LawnMM...

    Think I like yours better than mine. You got better grass...errr...well...y'all know what I mean.
  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited June 2004
    You guys rock! How long did it take?
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited June 2004
    Zoinks!

    Lawn, Media... my most sincere of thanks.

    They look great.

    As for the caps and gowns... it IS a private school (Catholic) and for the 6k/yr I was paying he BETTER get a cap and gown.

    Actually, most of the grade schools in Chicago do caps and gowns for 8th grade.

    Thanks again guys.

    Fold on.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited June 2004
    MediaMan wrote:
    LawnMM...

    Think I like yours better than mine. You got better grass...errr...well...y'all know what I mean.

    You finished in about half the time I did. I went at that thing for a while before I got the grass blended well. Not to mention the walls, various people's heads and hair, and the damn gowns with the pita color schemes. Just takes some practice and a boatload of patience =)
    maxanon wrote:
    You guys rock! How long did it take?

    Umm...hour? 90 mins maybe? Decent bit of time...bout average for a good photochop project.
  • VicodinVicodin Chicago
    edited June 2004
    They're both outstanding and I appreciate both of them.

    Yes, Lawn's grass is better but the two 'recreated' figures are cleaner on Media's.

    Once again, many thanks to both of you.

    Fold on.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    When I first saw the pic, I thought the kid was a mascot. ;D
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    A big hairy mascot...
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited June 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    When I first saw the pic, I thought the kid was a mascot. ;D


    I was thinking it was cousin it from the addams family

    btw incredible work guys, man there is so much u can do with photoshop i should learn it :)
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