http://www.garydatesphotos.com/2009/extracting-a-glass-from-a-photo/ A website about Photoshop and Photography Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:02:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.garydatesphotos.com/2009/extracting-a-glass-from-a-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-890 songworks Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:19:17 +0000 http://www.garydatesphotos.com/?p=242#comment-890 As to the reflection, yes, I should've simply used "Flip Vertical" inside the "Free Transform" tool to get the correct orientation. Regarding the artifacts introduced to the background using Content Aware Scaling, there is no easy way to repair it. What I would try is create another copy of that layer immediately above it , blur it (to minimize the artifacting), and then create a Layer Mask. Using a black brush, I would then "paint in" the glasses and table top until it looked convincing........pretty tedious work. This is the problem with Content Aware Scaling.....which is why I fell out of love with it rather quickly. As to the reflection, yes, I should've simply used "Flip Vertical" inside the "Free Transform" tool to get the correct orientation. Regarding the artifacts introduced to the background using Content Aware Scaling, there is no easy way to repair it. What I would try is create another copy of that layer immediately above it , blur it (to minimize the artifacting), and then create a Layer Mask. Using a black brush, I would then "paint in" the glasses and table top until it looked convincing……..pretty tedious work. This is the problem with Content Aware Scaling…..which is why I fell out of love with it rather quickly.

]]> http://www.garydatesphotos.com/2009/extracting-a-glass-from-a-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Roeland Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:55:27 +0000 http://www.garydatesphotos.com/?p=242#comment-889 Looking with great interest to your extracting glass tutorial. Very well done. A few remarks/questions: - creating the reflection of the stem, isn't it better to not only copy it and turn it upside down, to flip sides. I noticed in the 100% opacity setting, that the right side (black) shows on the left of the reflection. - Although you mentioned that the background distortion created by the Content Aware Scaling tool was fine, how would you actually repair this kind of distortions? Looking with great interest to your extracting glass tutorial. Very well done.
A few remarks/questions:
- creating the reflection of the stem, isn't it better to not only copy it and turn it upside down, to flip sides. I noticed in the 100% opacity setting, that the right side (black) shows on the left of the reflection.
- Although you mentioned that the background distortion created by the Content Aware Scaling tool was fine, how would you actually repair this kind of distortions?

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