I have used both the remove cables and wires as well as the remove people feature on several photos. I have yet needed to do very much clean up work after using the tool. In fact it works so well I have started to go back to old photos which I thought were hopeless due to being cluttered with wires and people and produced some keepers. All the best Dave.
I noticed that at 6:45 in the video, when removing the people from the image, it also removed the white car at the curb. So it's not perfect, but still a pretty good tool
Hi Dave, The people remover doesnt work very well if you are trying to remove people fairly close to some sort of signage. If you try it in this example it just messes up the signage and turns it into a mess. Its great though that Adobe are bringing out tools like this. I`m sure they will get better. GReat video again Dave.
Great tutorial. I have a M1 MacBook. Using Rosetta, my photoshop can run the Topaz Studio. But, with Rosetta, the technique demoed here will not work. When I tried, Photoshop displayed a message that remove distractions does not work with Rosetta. So I turn off Rosetta and now my Topaz Studio 2 is no longer an available filter. As always, thanks for your informative, wonderful tutorials.
Silly question: I was surprised to see that you could create a blank layer and then work on that layer to remove objects. If you have the blank layer selected, where is it taking the data from? I seem to remember using the clone tool many times and having to duplicate the background because it would tell me ‘no pixels were selected’ on the blank layer. How is this different? Thanks
That's a good question. In order for this to work for the Remove tool: Go to the Remove Tools menu and check on "Sample All Layers" and you should be good to go.
This is a great feature, but I found one limitation. Let us say you have wires on poles over a one-story building on a sunny day, and the cables cast shadows against the roof or the upper wall area. Erase Power Lines won't remove the shadows cast by the wires. You might be able to handle the shadows by lassoing the cables and shadows and typing a gen AI command.
The problem with this tool is that it can't be used without supervision. I know this sounds like a"glass half empty" comment, but it's not. Used manually, the remove tool is very powerful, much better than any other tool in PS for accomplishing this. In difficult situations, for example, a powerline tracking through trees, it does a great but not perfect job. You would need to work at 100%, switch to the eraser or clone stamp and touch up its work. On total auto, you wouldn't know where the mistakes are. Working on a blank layer is imperative. This tool is miles ahead of its predecessors and does a really great job. It cuts the time down to accomplish a task like this by 75%, but if perfection is your goal, you will need to monitor its performance. Thank you Adobe for this upgrade.
Why bother taking your own images, or getting upset by distractions during your holliday. Just order your personal Cuban Portfolio when you'r back home, based on your track from the phone. Remember to write: "Havana with no Cubans and no power lines and no exotic charm". That should preserve your sense of order.
Thanks Dave, these tools are becoming much more useful.
I have used both the remove cables and wires as well as the remove people feature on several photos. I have yet needed to do very much clean up work after using the tool. In fact it works so well I have started to go back to old photos which I thought were hopeless due to being cluttered with wires and people and produced some keepers. All the best Dave.
So clean. Thanks Dave!
I noticed that at 6:45 in the video, when removing the people from the image, it also removed the white car at the curb. So it's not perfect, but still a pretty good tool
Hi Dave, The people remover doesnt work very well if you are trying to remove people fairly close to some sort of signage. If you try it in this example it just messes up the signage and turns it into a mess. Its great though that Adobe are bringing out tools like this. I`m sure they will get better. GReat video again Dave.
Great tutorial. I have a M1 MacBook. Using Rosetta, my photoshop can run the Topaz Studio. But, with Rosetta, the technique demoed here will not work. When I tried, Photoshop displayed a message that remove distractions does not work with Rosetta.
So I turn off Rosetta and now my Topaz Studio 2 is no longer an available filter.
As always, thanks for your informative, wonderful tutorials.
Silly question: I was surprised to see that you could create a blank layer and then work on that layer to remove objects. If you have the blank layer selected, where is it taking the data from? I seem to remember using the clone tool many times and having to duplicate the background because it would tell me ‘no pixels were selected’ on the blank layer. How is this different? Thanks
That's a good question. In order for this to work for the Remove tool: Go to the Remove Tools menu and check on "Sample All Layers" and you should be good to go.
This is a great feature, but I found one limitation. Let us say you have wires on poles over a one-story building on a sunny day, and the cables cast shadows against the roof or the upper wall area. Erase Power Lines won't remove the shadows cast by the wires. You might be able to handle the shadows by lassoing the cables and shadows and typing a gen AI command.
The problem with this tool is that it can't be used without supervision. I know this sounds like a"glass half empty" comment, but it's not. Used manually, the remove tool is very powerful, much better than any other tool in PS for accomplishing this. In difficult situations, for example, a powerline tracking through trees, it does a great but not perfect job. You would need to work at 100%, switch to the eraser or clone stamp and touch up its work. On total auto, you wouldn't know where the mistakes are. Working on a blank layer is imperative. This tool is miles ahead of its predecessors and does a really great job. It cuts the time down to accomplish a task like this by 75%, but if perfection is your goal, you will need to monitor its performance. Thank you Adobe for this upgrade.
I agree, it's great to have a tool that can do the heavy lifting, but we still need to supervise it.
Why bother taking your own images, or getting upset by distractions during your holliday. Just order your personal Cuban Portfolio when you'r back home, based on your track from the phone. Remember to write: "Havana with no Cubans and no power lines and no exotic charm". That should preserve your sense of order.