Re: Selecting telephone wires

Robert Feinman wrote:
I know I have seen some some tricks for selecting telephone and
electric power lines in order to remove them from the photo, but
I seem to have forgotten them.
Currently I use the magic wand tool which is slow and somewhat
inaccurate especially when the wires are out of focus. After I
have the wire selected I expand it by a pixel or two and then use
the patch tool followed by some extra touch up, if needed. This
is all slower than I'd like.

So, does anyone have some good tricks for selecting wires?

As veryone else has suggested, the clone tool or healing brush will allow
you to *paint* them out of the picture.

However, if you have another reason for wanting to select the power lines,
try this.
Copy the image into a new layer and convert the whole thing to grayscale.
Now go into images>adjustments>levels and constrict the white and black
channels together to increase the contrast to the point where you're left
with a silhouette.
You can now use this silhouette layer, or selected parts of it as a layer
mask to pick out the relevant parts.


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