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| Original image |
Cloning out various blemishes in an images is 'normal' and I don't really think about, so when asked to remove such a large section of the image I just thought
more cloning. However, once I opened the image on the pc and started the removal process I got stuck.
Ø What did the underside of the table look like?
Ø Without reflections, what colour were the seat and the table top?
Ø What about all the damage to the varnish on the table?
Ø Where was I going to find all the replacement brickwork needed?
So I started slowly and removed an arm.
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| Vanishing |
I certainly wasn't difficult, I think time consuming and somewhat tedious are rather better descriptors. As long as I didn't try to copy too much, in any one replacement, the brickwork looked normal. It was much easier to copy a full line of bricks from one area to another; but zooming out form the image it clearly looked like the bricks had been copied.
Something I became very aware of - very few lines are actually perfectly straight! This mades things lot easier.
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| Reflections |
I think removing the reflections were by far the trickiest. In terms of the potential cloning material available, it was less than 50%. This meant that the size of the 'pick and place' pixels significantly reduced and thus took a lot longer to complete. In terms of the image a lot the damaged varnish, and thus character, was lost.
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| Empty seat |
Overall its not a bad attempt. However, I think the resultant image is flat in comparison to the original, removal of the reflection and the shine dulled the image.
Comparing just the last 2 images, the reflection alone makes the image more interesting. I appreciate that the lines are not quite at the correct angles, but the reflection might be of the window.
