How to do this?

barracuda · 15th April 2005

Recently I saw in a mag of some catwalk pics. They removed all the models but only left with the costumes, so you see the costumes 'walking', floating in the air. even the portion being blocked by the models' body also appear in the pics clearly. how do they do this? any idea?

nemesis32 · 15th April 2005

prob using layer mask? The problem is the background also will be gone so unless you have a very clear uncluttered background, it will be no diff from cutting out from MAg!

yanyewkay · 15th April 2005

probably cloned the covered parts from existing material. Quite common technique used during post processing to touch up/remove unwanted stuff. Since you don't know what's covered.. so they just use some pattern that looks like the original bg/clothing can already.

Zplus · 16th April 2005

2 images, layers, eraser.
or
1 image, layers, clone / patch.

Interesting idea...

vince123123 · 18th April 2005

scan and post here for us to see?

Originally Posted by barracuda

Recently I saw in a mag of some catwalk pics. They removed all the models but only left with the costumes, so you see the costumes 'walking', floating in the air. even the portion being blocked by the models' body also appear in the pics clearly. how do they do this? any idea?

SniperD · 18th April 2005

actually it can be done if you have it planned out properly.

1) go earlier tot scene to set up a fixed height and take a shot of the empty catwalk

2) during the catwalk, just shoot using the fixed height so that you can layer your 1st pic with the one with the models in it

3) just use layers and masking tool to get back the bottom layer.

Easier than to do cut and paste or to clone, only problem is lighting.

15th April 2005	#1
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15th April 2005	#3
yanyewkay Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cons digger. Posts: 4,046	probably cloned the covered parts from existing material. Quite common technique used during post processing to touch up/remove unwanted stuff. Since you don't know what's covered.. so they just use some pattern that looks like the original bg/clothing can already. __________________ “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler

18th April 2005	#6
SniperD Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Behind the viewfinder... Posts: 5,954	actually it can be done if you have it planned out properly. 1) go earlier tot scene to set up a fixed height and take a shot of the empty catwalk 2) during the catwalk, just shoot using the fixed height so that you can layer your 1st pic with the one with the models in it 3) just use layers and masking tool to get back the bottom layer. Easier than to do cut and paste or to clone, only problem is lighting. __________________ EYE-DEAS

15th April 2005	#2
nemesis32 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 3,476	prob using layer mask? The problem is the background also will be gone so unless you have a very clear uncluttered background, it will be no diff from cutting out from MAg!

16th April 2005	#4
Zplus Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Some equitorial, tropical isla Posts: 2,353	2 images, layers, eraser. or 1 image, layers, clone / patch. Interesting idea...