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?

The old 'trick' you may be thinking of (if you don't want to use Clone Stamp
or Healing Brush) is to duplicate the layer then move the new layer a couple
of pixels upwards or sideways. Set the blend mode of your new layer to
'Lighten' and the wires disappear as if by magic. The rest of the image
might look a pit peculiar but you can erase the parts of the layer that you
are not concerned with.

HTH
R.



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