removing or masking perspiration stains

[juzzo66]

I am working on a photo and not having much luck with covering up a perspiration stain from a checked shirt under the arm of an elderly gentleman. I am using Photoshop 7 and tried selecting area adjusting contrast and brightness and then touching up with healing brush. I am looking for a way of copying the tone of the shirt into the selected area of the stain.

Thank you anyone who can help.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Have you tried using the "clone stamp tool"

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[juzzo66]

Marcus,

I havent but the perspiration is under the subjects arm and the crease of the shirt and the checked pattern would be difficult and time consuming to clone, I am realy looking for a way of copying the colour or tone of another part of the shirt and applying it to the selected stain area, but keeping the checked pattern of the stained area.

thanks Juzzo66

 

[MarcusStringer]

If you use the eye dropper tool to select the colour then with you selection active, fill with the forground colour.
But I if you do that I don't think you will get the tonal range to look any good...
What if you made your selection, then drag it to where you want to copy from then holding down your command option buttons drag it to where you want it to go, this will copy the selection.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[NigeW]

Not sure if it will help but . . .

Put a new layer above the one with the perspiration

Using the colour you want paint on the new layer over the area of the perspiration

Then change the layer style to "overlay" etc - test which looks the best.

As I said Im not sure it will fix the problem but thought it might be worth trying.

Cheers

Nigel Wilson
"kiwi-kid"

http://www.potentialunlimited.co.nz

 

[barehug]

A very quick way would be to just select an area, like under the other arm, flip it horizontally, move it over, use the eraser to soften the edges and then use liquify to line up the creases and move the creases slightly so that they aren't identical.

Using selected layers and the clone brush would give better results, but would take longer.


Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[wiser3]

I was going to suggest you use the "Match Color" tool, but that's in PhotoShop CS and i just realized your using version 7.

There's a reason to upgrade.