jay613

I'm trying combinations of the above. FurBlur is nice. Some erasing over a black layer, then some smudging, a little furblur, and then a very subtle bit of additional smudging ... holds some promise. I just need a lot of practice and experimentation. QUESTION: You know how you can set transparency of an entire layer? What I'd love is a "partial eraser" i.e. controllable transparency pen that only works inside the selected area. Is there such a thing? That would combine nicely with the magic wand to blend the black screen into the blue areas around the hair. Then I could use FurBlur to paint hair back over the black/blue blended areas.

Thanks for three good suggestions. I'm going to try them all. You all demonstrated your results -- too bad I didn't upload the full res picture, I'd have three free consulting jobs! Just kidding -- then I'd learn nothing. @Eli I did try the clone stamp, various ways, but always ended up with circular stamps clearly visible in the end result. If not for that, it actually looked pretty good. How do you avoid the appearance of circles from the stamper? I'm not sure what you did in the third layer of your picture. Are you stamping transparency or something? @IRON67 and @Pixie I'm going to try your techniques. They both look good. I haven't worked with layers much, I will look at those tutorials first. Thanks a lot.

I want to turn off the TV in the attached photo. Blacking out most of the screen is easy but can anyone suggest the best way to blend the dog's hair into the newly black screen? I've had mediocre results with Gaussian Blur and Smudge. Liquify seems to have some promise but I can't figure out how to use it properly. Perhaps it's a matter of using these tools in a certain way, or techniques for using them that will improve the results I get? I know it's hard to do this perfectly. Thanks for any tips. Note, the attached is a very small version of the photo. The actual photo I will be editing is much larger and you can make out individual hairs in front of the screen. Like I said, I'm not looking for perfection, but the results I'm getting with these tools look really amateur. Also, this is my first forum post so apologies if I've not interpreted all the rules correctly. I shrunk my image and searched for an answer before posting. Hopefully my head can remain attached to my body now.