Exercise: Alteration

The final exercise of this section is called alteration, this time I need to make a deliberate alteration and in fact I need to 'remove' someone from a photograph.

for this exercise I needed to use tools from photoshop and I chose to use the clone stamp and also cutting and pasting of some areas.

 Above is the original photograph, I took this a while ago but I wanted to see what it would be like if I removed the person from it, and whether it might work as a background for writing.

Here I have started the removal process, I have cloned the water and I used the copy and paste to start on her legs and body. I found that the best think to do was make each area I wanted to work on about 75% larger so I could make sure I included all the details.  Problems occurred when using the cloning tool, if I strayed too far from an area therefore bringing other factors into the picture. An example of this would be rocks in the water when working on the head area rather than just water.

The finished result, I found it quite interesting using the copy and paste for the rocks I wanted to try and make them look as if they had always been there but also to have a slight variety, in the hope that anyone seeing this photograph for the first time might think it had been taken like that.  I feel that this photograph worked quite well and could be used as advertising as there is plenty of free space now to write on, it would also be possible to write over the rock area.