Photoshop Elements 3>Anyone familiar with

flatbelly

Cathlete
We took the Christmas family photo and one photo came out perfectly except there is a snowflake in front of my son's nose!!Just my luck! How do I erase it with Photoshop Elements 3? Thanks for any help!!!
Lisa
 
I have photoshop elements 2. I don't know how big your snowflake problem is, but you may be able to correct it by zooming in real close to your son's nose and 'erasing' it by changing the color of the pixels over his nose. It might take a couple tries to get the color and/or shading right so make sure your original picture is saved off somewhere if you need to start over again. I use this same technique to get rid of red eyes. Photoshop isn't the most user friendly to work with but I found that 'help' on the toolbar and the user manual to be pretty thorough. HTH.
 
I've used version 2, but I know V.3 has the stamp tool. You basically enlarge the photo, click on the stamp tool, grab coloring next the the snowflake spot (showing skin color) and then stamp over the snowflake. If I'm not making myself clear, use help and enter "stamp" for directions on using the tool.
 
Remember to make a copy of the photo first. Don't mess with the only copy you have in case this takes a few tries!
 
Try the bandaid tool. I have elements 2, but elements 3 has the bandaid, which is supposed to be great and easier than the stamp tool, for fixing your snowflake problem.
 
I use Paint shop pro and there is a took called the clone tool, all you do is click on part of his face you want to clone then click on the snow flack and it will fill in with the the rest of his face that is covered with the snowflake.
 
How do you all learn all this stuff? By doing I suppose. I have a few books on the subject but am having a hard time learning it. If you can master it, you can really have boundless creativity...thanks for all the ideas. I will try them.

Lisa
 
>How do you all learn all this stuff? By doing I suppose. I
>have a few books on the subject but am having a hard time
>learning it. If you can master it, you can really have
>boundless creativity...thanks for all the ideas. I will try
>them.
>
>Lisa

I learned a tiny bit in a digital carmra class that I just took. I did experiment with the bandaid tool and thought it was cool. I asked my teacher how long it took for him to learn Photoshop, and he said about 12 years, and he's still learning! LOL! It's complicated that's for sure.

Everything I learned, I forgot 2 min. later. LOL!
 
send the picture to me ......I will see what I can do ;-). If I can't fix it Dh certainly can...he is awesome (he does all my pictures)

Robin:)
 
Robin,
That is so kind of you to offer to do that. Definitely the nicest people on this forum! I tried to fix the picture as best I could and mailed it out as the Christmas card today. How did you and your husband learn the fine art of Photoshop Elements? Thanks again!

Lisa
 
There are tutorials online to help you learn the programs. That is how I learned most of it and then just jumping and playing with it, but as someone says, copy, copy, copy' always copy picture as not to harm the original
 

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