Home Exhibition Hall Photo Album Digital Camera Tip & Trick About Me Enter your search terms Submit search form This website is best view in Firefox resolution 1024x768 pixels Remove Unwanted Items from a Photo Normally, you check the photo you take in the screen of digital camera, if it is not good, delete it and take again. Sometimes, you find an unwanted item in the photo after loading it to your computer although you have checked it in digital camera screen after taking. This always happens because the screen of digital camera is very small when compare to the screen of computer. So small items in a photo are difficult to be checked on digital camera screen. What you can do if you cannot go back to retake it. Don't worry, you can remove unwanted items from the photo easily. The photo below is an example. The car in the photo is an unwanted item. This tutorial guides you how to remove it. First of all, you have to load it to your computer. Then use photo editing software remove the unwanted item from the photo. The software used in this tutorial is Photoshop. If you use other software, this idea can also be applied. You may click the link below to download the photo and follow the tutorial to practise. Click here to download the photo to practise Before romove a car from the photo After romove a car from the photo Step 1 Open the original picture in Photoshop. The main idea of removing item from the photo is replacing it with the background. For this example, the lower part of the car is replaced with the concrete road and the upper of the car is replace with brush. Select Zoom Tool (No. 1) then click on the photo (No. 2) to zoom the car so that it is big enough to work. Step 2 Select Clone Stamp Tool(No.3) set the size of brush (No.4) and set opacity to 95% (No.5) Step 3 Hold Alt and click the concrete road which is background. (No.6) Release Alt, click and drag the mouse over the car which is replaced with concrete road.(No.7) Step 4 The car is replaced with concrete road (No.8) Step 5 Go on step 3 until the lower part of car is replaced with concrete road. Hold Alt and click the brush which is background. (No.9) Release Alt, click and drag the mouse over the car which is replaced with brush.(No.10) Step 6 The upper part of car is replaced with brush.(No.11) Step 7 Go on step 5 until the car disapears. This website is hosted by www.agilityhoster.com (C) 2007-2008 All rights reserved.