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How Best To Remove Edge Shadow? - abrogard - 07-19-2018
I'm trying to make an acceptable passport photo. There's 'edge shadow' - you know? Subject too close to the back wall when the photo was taken and one side has a little shadow outlining it.
How to remove that?
RE: How Best To Remove Edge Shadow? - rich2005 - 07-19-2018
How many to do? This example from UK passport office as example of 'unacceptable' All depends on the photograph(s)
In terms of speed, using the fuzzy select tool and a suitable value for Theshold + a bit of Feather edges might get a selection to fill with a background colour. screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/xStR55F.jpg
A bit slower, is (carefully) clone out the shadow using a fuzzy brush. https://i.imgur.com/GDtmTbx.jpg
Slower again, click round the outline with the free-select tool to give a selection. Invert and then fill.
You could try scissors tool to get a selection, I find it never makes a very good one but worth a try. Foreground select unlikely to work on this type of image.
RE: How Best To Remove Edge Shadow? - abrogard - 07-19-2018
Thanks for that. I was battling on and I finished up slowly erasing it all. Much magnification etc. Then I did the colour curve thing with the mask, trick I learned just yesterday and am still absorbing. That leads to deleting all the background which I replace with new white.
