Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Remove the crowd from your picture

Sometime we have the problem with the crowd in our beautiful shots that have been ruined by tourists cluttering the composition. It’s not always possible to wait for everyone to leave to take your shot, so luckily there are a lot of options to remove tourists once you get home:

Here are some tips to remove the crowd that cluttering the composition of your pictures:

  • Microsoft Research’s Group Shot allows you to choose the favorite parts of each image in a series of shots and composite them together to create a single shot.
  • Futurelabs Tourist Remover does something similar but in a more automated fashion, allowing you to choose as many images as you want to blend together, its best for images with relatively sparse crowds as it needs a significant portion of the background visible.
  • DSPhotographic walks you through the process using the masking, layers and eraser tool in Photoshop.
  • Using image stacks in Photoshop CS3 by photonews or popphoto

So, never fear of the crowd that ruin your beautiful object. Just shot, and shot, and shot. Then remove it at home.

Have a nice try!

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