Photoshop wrinkles out of background

socal82 · Sep 22, 2012

I tried to get the wrinkles out of my gray bed sheet but didn't get all of them. Is there any way in photo shop to get them out? The bed sheet is gray.

Light Guru · Sep 22, 2012

Without you posting the photo in question it's going to be impossible for anyone here to say what the best way to do it is. Or if it even needs to be done at all.

socal82 · Sep 22, 2012

here is one of the test shots. to the right you can see it. theres more that are worse but computer is acting up.

KmH · Sep 22, 2012

Which of the 27 versions of Photoshop do you have? (Photoshop Elements - 10 versions, Photoshop and Photoshop CS - 13 versions, Lightroom - 4 versions = 27 versions of Photoshop.)

If your version of Photoshop has it, use the Spot Healing Brush and turn on Content-Aware. If you don't have Content-Aware as a tool option, use Proximity match
You could also use the Clone Stamp tool, but would have to keep re-selecting the clone source..

socal82 · Sep 22, 2012

Cs 6 and elements 10

D3Shooter · Sep 22, 2012

KmH said:
If your version of Photoshop has it, use the Spot Healing Brush and turn on Content-Aware

That is a good option for CS6

Edsport · Sep 23, 2012

I used the color range tool in CS4 to select the gray and then the magic wand tool to deselect the areas that was selected on her and then used gaussian blur to blur the gray. Also brought up the exposure a bit...

KmH · Sep 23, 2012

Nice edit. :thumbup:

Elements and Lightroom don't have the Color Range function.

Buckster · Sep 23, 2012

Edsport said:
I used the color range tool in CS4 to select the gray and then the magic wand tool to deselect the areas that was selected on her and then used gaussian blur to blur the gray.

That posterized the background into bands and clipped her hair so that it looks like she was pasted onto it. I'd say that's not really a very good solution.

Buckster · Sep 23, 2012

I tried a different approach.

I cut her out of the original gray background with Topaz Remask 3, which better preserved her hair. Then I placed her on a flat gray background sampled from the background of the original image near her head to best blend the hair back in. I then ran her through Portrait Professional for a bit of skin, lighting and facial contour enhancement. I adjusted levels to brighten the image without clipping. Lastly, I applied a bit of sharpening to the image.