Comments on: How to Fix a Botched Tourist Photo in Photoshop

By: sovi

sovi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:31:21 +0000

how lucky we are if we have an opportunity to see some beautiful places in this world…

nice info..thank you

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:10:33 +0000

An alternate method in GIMP would be to extract the three people in the first shot and add them in at a strategic spot in the second.

By: Marriedin79

Marriedin79 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:53:54 +0000

@Royce

Yes, you can do this in PSE. It doesn’t have a mask option like Photoshop does; however, you can get around it by creating an adjustment layer (i.e. Levels). Immediately close out of the adjustment layer without making any adjustments. Then click on the mask thumbnail and go ahead with the painting as the article suggests.

By: Reid

Reid — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:32:50 +0000

Hugin (the panorama tool recently discussed) is really good at this kind of thing too — less fiddly than the above steps.

If you want to use pixels from just one image in some areas, you can export the transformed images as TIFFs, paint in transparency on the non-desired images in the appropriate places, and then blend as a separate step.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:27:37 +0000

The exact same thing happened to me when they took my picture in front of the Eiffel Tower and I fixed it the exact same way

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:03:53 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial! I’m sure everyone can use this trick to fix up a photo or 2.

By: bee

bee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:10:17 +0000

Such an easy trick for great holiday photos – a shame I didn’t do it till today… Thanks for this idea!

By: Royce Bair - YourPhotoVision

Royce Bair - YourPhotoVision — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:40:38 +0000

Can you do this with PS Elements, or just the regular Photoshop?

By: Reznor

Reznor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:34:40 +0000

I use the same technique when I take photos of groups. There’s always someone blinking or looking funny, so I take a series of shots in continuous shooting mode and then paint the best versions of every person into a single image. Since all the shots are taken in a row, they are pretty much aligned but Photoshop does a good job aligning images when they weren’t in the first place.

By: Alex Bischoff

Alex Bischoff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:57:30 +0000

Perhaps Photoshop's Photomerge function might make the interim steps a bit more automatic?