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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: tom b on June 17, 2011, 12:40:34 am

Title: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: tom b on June 17, 2011, 12:40:34 am
Since you have all mastered removing the powerlines from Bill's photo, here's the next challenge.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o6QMmE8Errc/TfrZ0wwH-OI/AAAAAAAAA8c/mkmahiZpl1k/s1600/power_lines.jpg)

From Old Delhi.

Cheers,
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on June 17, 2011, 01:52:10 am
Do you want us to remove the powerlines, the house or the sky?????
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: francois on June 17, 2011, 03:27:25 am
Wait until Photoshop CS6. Content aware will handle this case with no problem…
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 17, 2011, 09:45:34 am
Wait until Photoshop CS6. Content aware will handle this case with no problem…
... using the new Voice Activation Feature: "Remove the powerlines, Hal!"
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: John R Smith on June 17, 2011, 09:50:35 am
You made my day, Tom  ;)

John
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: louoates on June 17, 2011, 10:39:28 am
If you look closely these are not all power lines. Please indicate which are support cables, guy wires, and lightning suppressor lines and I'll gladly remove just the power lines for you. CS6 will not be able to distinguish between those. But I have it from a good source that CS7 will.
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: tom b on June 17, 2011, 05:02:32 pm
Thanks John, here in Australia you have to be certified to work on powerlines past the meter box. Looking at the Old Delhi powerlines I'm sure that you would have to be certified to work on them there too!

Cheers,
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: AvidVisionary on June 18, 2011, 11:59:14 am
If someone had to work on this, seriously, would they turn mad or just say no?
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: Mark D Segal on June 18, 2011, 12:40:56 pm
If someone had to work on this, seriously, would they turn mad or just say no?

Seriously, hopeless as it looks, there must be a way of doing it. It would take some time and concentration - which I can't manage right now because of some serious priorities - to develop an efficient/effective strategy for approaching it, in terms of the tools to use and how to use them, but I'd really be surprised if SOMEONE couldn't come up with a satisfactory fix.
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: AvidVisionary on June 18, 2011, 04:40:41 pm
The only way I know, is to model that building and the sky in a 3D programme without the post. That, IMO, would be easier than to actually have to remove some things from the picture. The top look doable but the bottom is impossible.
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: DerW on June 18, 2011, 05:26:48 pm
Removal of the power lines on the sky is pretty easy with a simple gradient to recreate the sky, but it'd not remove the power lines from the whole photo, but rather remove just the disturbing ones (i.e. mask out the sky where you don't need it retouched).
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: AvidVisionary on June 18, 2011, 05:54:08 pm
You have done a great job. However, that picture cannot be saved unless the post is gone.
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: Alan Goldhammer on June 18, 2011, 08:56:37 pm
You have done a great job. However, that picture cannot be saved unless the post is gone.
Why?  The powerline has simply been turned into an avant-garde sculpture!
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: AvidVisionary on June 18, 2011, 10:50:39 pm
Do you think that picture looks good with that post in the centre and the wires stretching towards the right corner?
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: tom b on June 19, 2011, 12:46:38 am
The image was taken from the front of a moving rickshaw and as such was a very much a point and shoot effort.

I realise that the tool we need Thomas to delelop is a much broader one than the healing brush. Hence I think that we should be requesting the healing mop. Michael…

Cheers,
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: EduPerez on June 20, 2011, 02:06:02 am
The only tool I can think of to save this picture is a chainsaw... used on the post's base.
Title: Re: Advanced removing powerlines from a photo
Post by: tom b on June 20, 2011, 02:59:54 am
Ah, but could you save yourself the the wires came down?

Cheers