Help changing background

[srichards523]

Help please. I am trying to get rid of the sidewalk behind her.  I tried cloning the grass, but it ended up looking pretty awful! What would be the best way to do it? thank you so much in advance!

[Damien Symonds]

Hi Silvia, can you post it bigger?  This is very tiny.

[srichards523]

Sorry, I can post a link to the raw file. Will that work? Here it is below: 

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=207547A57993F55D!1437&authkey=!AF0nRz1m7LzJ-IU&v=3&ithint=photo%2cNEF

I can post the jpeg later tonight when I'm home.

thank you.

[Christina Keddie]

No, do all your raw processing, save your SOOR as a JPG, and post that JPG here.  Any cloning work will of course be done in PS, not in raw.

Also: don't crop in raw, or while you're editing, at all, ever.   Keep all your pixels, and only crop for specific outputs (on your disposable JPGs, not your master file).

[srichards523]

Thank you! Great information! 

So how should I get rid of the sidewalk? The clone tool is just not working for me

please advise. Thank you! 

Attached is what I was able to accomplish with the clone tool. It looks pretty bad. Lol. 

[Christina Keddie]

No, please post your SOOR.   All your raw processing done, NO other work, and definitely NO cropping!

[srichards523]

I'm at work, will post when I'm home. Thank you!

[srichards523]

Ok, finally got around to posting the SOOR you requested. (Picked a different image) Sorry, I've been working. Thank you so much for your time!!!

[Damien Symonds]

Oh gee, you've got a big problem here.  Please fix it immediately.

[Damien Symonds]

Notwithstanding the colour space problem, what do you think of this?

[srichards523]

Wow! That is amazing! How did you do that? Thank you! 

[Damien Symonds]

Have you fixed the colour space problem?

[srichards523]

It says my document profile is Adobe rgb 8bpc. Do I change it to something else?

[Damien Symonds]

1 minute ago, srichards523 said:

It says my document profile is Adobe rgb 8bpc. Do I change it to something else?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the link PROPERLY.

[Damien Symonds]

You must have clicked on the wrong button on the very first page.

[srichards523]

I did. Sorry! How do I change it?

[srichards523]

Reading how to change it now. Thanks!

[srichards523]

Ok, changed it. Did I do it right? Thank you for your time!!!

[Damien Symonds]

No, I'm really worried about this.  How did you change it from Adobe RGB to sRGB?

[srichards523]

I went to Edit

Then Color settings

and I changed it from there.

 

[Damien Symonds]

No, that's not how it works.  Please follow every.single.page of the troubleshooter.

[srichards523]

ok, followed every step, hope i did it right, thank you!

[Damien Symonds]

Every time you post the colours are duller than the first one you posted.  That first one was in the wrong colour space, but gee it looked good!

When you fix the colour space problem (if you do it properly) the visible colours should not change one bit.

Did you, or did you not, re-open the raw file in your raw program and fix the colour space setting there?

[srichards523]

Yes, I did. I'm sorry, my mistake. The color was dull because apparently I didn't edit the colors like in the first picture. Is this better? Not exactly like the first picture, but I think it's better?

[Damien Symonds]

2 hours ago, srichards523 said:

Yes, I did. I'm sorry, my mistake. The color was dull because apparently I didn't edit the colors like in the first picture.

I'm sorry to harp on about this, but it's really important.

There should have been no necessity to re-edit.  You should have simply opened the raw file (already edited from last time), changed the colour space, and bob's your uncle.

If, somehow, you lost your editing settings after you edited it the first time, that worryingly suggests another problem with your workflow, and I'd like to help you fix it if we can.