I am still a self-taught beginner at Photoshop, but thought I'd share what I taught myself today. I have been working on removing product names from photographs. On this one, I wanted to leave the "4" but delete the manufacturer's name and logo. Original photo:

 

I removed the logo successfully with a combination of Photoshop's patch tool and healing brush (working in patches), but now the 4 was much too low on the end of the weight with too much empty space above. It looked odd.

 

I used the lasso tool to circle the 4, created a new Layer Via Copy. I moved it into the center of the end of the weight. I then went back to my background layer (after hiding the selected 4 layer) and used the patch tool again to remove all traces of the old 4.

 

I did the same thing on the other weight, although that was trickier because of the extreme angle of the type. I just raised the 4 up a little bit since it wouldn't be as noticeable. After some cropping and cleanup, I ended up with this:

 

I don't care for the background well enough to use this as a product, but it was a fun experiment.

 

The photo challenge this week by Peter Carvey was to take a mediocre photo and see if you could jazz it up to be a better shot. Take a look at the original first and some of the wonderful and creative effects people applied in post. Use this link to see what normal people submitted.

 

Here is the original, admittedly, less-than-stellar photo by Peter.

 

 

Okay. Then there's mine...

 

I didn't post it on the DPS site (couldn't figure out how since I don't have a website anyway), but I determined from some of the comments that not everyone has my sense of humor, and it wouldn't be appreciated. I do not wish to annoy people worldwide. But YOU guys should be used to my posts by now, and I hope you do enjoy a little fun with Photoshop. I realize that T3DS is also worldwide, but I hope you're not annoyed. I'm just trying to learn.

 

My version of the photo.

 

 

 

(p.s. I desaturated the image, increased contrast, used curves, cropped it...and then, well, went a little nuts)