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I took this photo not too long ago at the local zoo. I thought the

expression and placemtn of the orangatan was very nice.

Unfortunately, someone's unconntrolled child jump into view. I cnat

figure out how to get rid of the blurry part of the image in the

lower right corner. Is there anything that can be done? The

Orangatan moved right after this was taken so i didnt have a nother

shot at it. I like the image except for the one portion and would

hate to have to discard it. ANy help would be appreciated.

 

Tony

That's a pretty big area to clean up. Convert image into CYMK or RGB in Photoshop, choose all channels or find the channel with the most blur, duplicate it (so you have a back-up channel in case of mistakes), carefully select the area and feather it, and apply an unsharp mask. It might not totally get rid of the blur, but it might reduce it.

I LOVE this shot. Beautiful tonality and contrast. What an expression on his/her face!!! The cropping is good too. I took the liberty to make the 'fix', a 5 min fix which mainly includes some cloning burning and dodging. Please keep this shot. If you need help to fix it, I will voluntee even I am no expert in PS.

Hilarious! Great moment you captured here. Rite side too bright to my taste (rock?). Good composition and colour range. Cannot help you as far as the bloody kid is concerned ;-)

Too bad that arm is there, making it just impossible to crop away the offending area. Too bad this is such a great shot that it's impossible to just forget the whole thing and move on. I guess the only thing to do is take this as an opportunity to get to know Photoshop a lot more than you really wanted to right now. But, really, that's the only way we do get to know PS - through these really, really good photos that require just a little more knowlege than we have at the moment.

I think Stephen has done it right. This is just one of those unfortunate problems that occur in public venues.

 

Old hack photographer's rules: #1:Get close. #2: Get closer. #3: Dammit, get closer!!!