Car removal

[Lauren]

HI

 

Is there anyway to remove the car in this photo?  Just a personal one but i would love to remove it if i could.  I have tried cloning was not at all successful.

[Damien Symonds]

Hi Lauren, I'm interested to have a play with this and see what's feasible. Do you mind posting the actual photo, rather than a screenshot?

[Lauren]

jpeg or psd?

 

[Lauren]

Don't worry i just saw the accepted file types.  I have attached a SOOC saved as jpeg

[Damien Symonds]

Do you think this would pass?

I used Liquify to raise the curve of the  ground a bit, in order to block out some of the car.  That meant less cloning to do.

[Lauren]

That is amazing!  I would love to have a go at replicating your fix.  DO you have a video of using the liquify tool?  I have only given it a try twice and found i had no idea what to do!

[Damien Symonds]

I have a video here.

The trick to Liquify in most cases - and certainly in this case - is to use a nice big brush.  A brush that goes from the fat tree to the left of the girl, all the way to the thin tree to her right.

[Damien Symonds]

Here's the PSD of my edit (sorry it's such a big file).

First, I duplicated the Background layer ("Layer 1") and did the liquifying on it (with a big brush as I mentioned).  It didn't matter that I stretched the girl out of shape a bit, because next, I added the mask and just masked where I needed.

Then I went back and added a blank layer below the liquified layer, for cloning on.

[Lauren]

Thank you, i found the video and gave it a go (roughly) how does this look?   I think i lifted the ground too high.  Is there a way to go back into the original liquify window and adjust it after?

Thanks for the psd, I will study it more closely now   

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, the ground looks implausibly high.