Photo fixing help

[earlw33]

    Hello Everybody,

Not sure if this is a good spot to post this, seems to fit the best. 

I shot my first wedding as a primary as a favor to a friend, so I am not getting paid for the job. I just use GIMP to touch up my photos, so I have never done anything in the area of manipulating photos. I got a shot of the groom and there is somebody right behind him. I was hoping a GIMP expert would be able to remove that pretty quickly and pretty inexpensively.

Being totally new at this is there a better way to find somebody to do this?

Thanks

[rich2005]

tsk...a Nikon D5300 - do not give up the day job

Use the clone tool see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html

Using a fuzzy brush, set the clone tool to alignment mode. Ctrl-click and fill in first one side, then the other.
There is just enough at the top to ctrl-click the division and clone in the boundary between light and dark.

example: https://i.imgur.com/KBwENQm.jpg

[earlw33]

(12-12-2017, 07:12 PM)rich2005 Wrote: tsk...a Nikon D5300  - do not give up the day job

Use the clone tool see: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html

Using a fuzzy brush, set the clone tool to alignment mode. Ctrl-click and fill in first one side, then the other.
There is just enough at the top to ctrl-click the division and clone in the boundary between light and dark.

example: https://i.imgur.com/KBwENQm.jpg

Thanks for the reply and the info. Will give it a try.

Got to start somewhere, right?

[rich2005]

(12-12-2017, 08:11 PM)earlw33 Wrote: Thanks for the reply and the info. Will give it a try.

Got to start somewhere, right?

Exactly, the best way to learn Gimp is dive in and try.

Come back if (when) you have problems.

[Ofnuts]

(12-12-2017, 07:12 PM)rich2005 Wrote: tsk...a Nikon D5300  - do not give up the day job

And only the 122nd photo on the camera...

The difference between an experienced photographer and a beginner is that the experienced one looks at the background before looking at the subject.

The other difference is that the experienced one knows to not use the built-in flash (or put a heavy diffuser over it). Otherwise you get nasty reflections on skin (foreheads, cheeks, and nose, and worst of all, bald spots). So, to remove these.

1. Add a layer, set it to "saturation" mode
   
2. Use a soft round brush with paint brush (or the airbrush)
   
3. Sample the skin color near the reflexion
   
4. Paint over the reflection
   
5. If the effect is too strong, reduce the layer opacity.
   

   

   

[rich2005]

In case OP ever comes back.

Apart from composition, I think a bit more touching up can be done apart from the person in top background. Some nasty shadows for example.

Clone out all the extras but leave the shape of the background, the temptation is to extract the foreground and totally replace the bg.
Then with a mask to keep fg sharp a light blur on the background



That image is only 1200 x 800 must be a larger one somewhere. That camera is 24 MP

FWIW as a demo of my thoughts http://www.mediafire.com/file/celverg1n3...0122.xcfgz 2.5 MB