Senior Pictures

[Hope Oien]

I don't have the money to do senior photos with a professional so I have people take them for me and then edit them. I've tried everything I can to fix the small messed up spot around the elbow of the left arm. I also have a few other pictures that I need help with if anyone is willing to take a look at them.

[Samantha LaRue]

Can you please post the SOOR Hope? That would be your image with raw edits on, and no PS work yet done to it.

[Hope Oien]

Heres the original. 

[Christina Keddie]

Hope, do you understand how layers and masks work?  That will be vital for this kind of removal work, and if you don't know how to mask an edit off of a layer, I HIGHLY recommend Damien's Layers & Masks class, for only $32.

I would first do all the raw processing (exposure, white balance, noise removal, etc.).  Then on the SOOR, I would probably (1) duplicate a large chunk of the good grass on the left side, enough to cover the entire bench, so including some of the swing chains, (2) clone out the chains on that new duplicated chunk, (3) move that chunk over on top of the bench, and (4) mask it off.

[Hope Oien]

I don't know a hole lot about editing and I don't really have an editing program.

[Damien Symonds]

21 minutes ago, Hope Oien said:

I don't really have an editing program.

Then I'm so sorry, we can't really help

[Hope Oien]

I hate to ask this, but is there any one who could just edit it for me?

[Damien Symonds]

I understand there is a group on Facebook called "Find a retoucher".