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- onebigword, on 10/12/2007, -2/+63So, is it bad that I _try_ to get into other people's vacation photos?
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+55I use a baseball bat.
- kitsonk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Yeah, but you didn't take the time to make a nice easy blog for someone else to read, you just sat at your keyboard and bitched and moaned about people with real talent.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Short version: Take several shots of the same scene with a tripod or something, then use the bits where the people moved out of the way to remove them from one shot.
- stevesearer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I'd rather have a way to remove scaffolding and construction. Seems like every site in Europe is always being worked on.
- r0ck3tm4nn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I just use the "Remove Tourists" filter. What? It doesn't work for you guys?
- olyar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I always thought it would be a great game to go to Disneyland and pick a family early in the day, then make it your goal to get into the background of as many of their photos as possible.
- airjrdn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This doesn't require a $500 copy of Photoshop.
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24wow.. take multiple images and copy/paste the parts from other images that are covered by people from copies of images that don't have people there... does this seem like common sense to anyone else?
- spam4jan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"Remove Tourist Filter" is about the strangest name for going crazy with an AK47.
I keed, I keed. - borchard76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8With a name like rocketmann, I suspect that the AK is a bit small for his tastes....
- dillchuk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12The funny thing about tourists, they'll snap ten photos of you with the bat before it bounces off their head.
- dantelephoneman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I have been reading too much news..... I read that as "How to remove TERRORIST filter"
- geeky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9-MPA- Meeting (MS Paint Anonymous)...
Me: "Hi my name is Rolf and I'm an MS Paint-o-holic"
Group: (all at once) "HI ROLF"
Me: "I can't stop using MS Paint, it's consumed me. I don't eat or drink, I stay up hours fixing photos pixel by pixel. I've been diagnosed with mouse-click-ritis"
Group: gasp! “I’m sorry”, “hang in there pal”, “we’re here for you buddy”
Group leader: "its okay Rolf, you're in a safe place now"
Me: "Help me stop; I can't make it go away. I want to modify every image I see." - se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Yelling and foaming at the mouth usually does the trick for me, but adding a bat would be a sure thing. Brilliant!
- OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*shrugs* I thought it was a neet idea. Nothing ground breaking, but a nice use of old tools.
- timxpx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@onebigword
makes me think of FHM's 'intruder of the month' -- i think you get money if you *are* the intruder. - jerrycan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4most Digg users want to know how to add people.....to photos of their basement apartment in their parent's house....wait a sec
- cathpah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4well there's also a website out there (can't remember which one) that offers this as a service (for a hefty fee of course). So obviously a lot of people have trouble with this and haven't/can't figure it out for themselves.
- brewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't be done just as well with a DSLR. At long exposures and low light levels, DSLRs are notorious for high noise levels. This is analogous to film grain at high speeds, but this happens despite ISO speed settings, albeit more with higher ISO.
Canon's CCD chips are also a bit better at this than the Nikons. - skatingrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone else read "remove tourist thongs?" Now THAT would be worth doing.
- PunkHop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I find that the "2 dozen quarter pound hot dogs strapped around you like TNT" gets rid of the tourists pretty efficiently.
And once one of those pesky sightseers calls the police and they shoot at you, the heat of the bullets will cook those dogs and it's time to feast after a long day of snapping pictures with your looks-like-a-gun-to-the-cops digital SLR. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I live in southern california... so needless to say, I am around alot of tourists all the time.
I can almost bet I am a legend in Japan for how many photos I have jumped into over the years. They probably think I'm some sort of chubby-white-ghost. - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Best thing about a (d)SLR is that people take you more seriously and tend to get out of your way more than for a little compact camera.
But I'd say that a wide aperture would be a better bet- people might still be in the picture, but out of focus, so they don't draw your attention as much. - Ludwig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The more traditional film-based method, which I assume can be done just as well with a DSLR:
Alternatively, you can shoot on a tripod with a small aperture and long exposure in the evening.
People walking will either not register, or be very, very faint. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, an actual useful photoshop tip. +1 for you. :)
- kirkness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im a photoshopper and i thought this was gonna be more "wow" to me. but yea. get more source image of stuff you want. but unfortunately taking multiple pics in a situation you're not likely to have a tripod doesn't really give you the results you'd like. its possible but again when you're taking vacation photos you're not really thinking about taking 20 pics of the same thing hoping people get out of the way.
- airshowfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Can't be done just as well with a DSLR. At long exposures and low light levels, DSLRs are notorious for high noise levels"
Actually, brewer, you're wrong. Well, you're right that digital cameras get real grainy when the ISO goes up. But to get a really long exposure, you want as little light to register as possible, which is why you use a narrow aperture, and the lowest ISO setting you can. This will cause you to have to expose for several seconds to a minute in order to get a good bright exposure, which means almost no people will be visible as almost no one will stand in one place that whole time. This in fact was true of the earliest photographs: Louis Daguerre took pictures of the streets of Paris, and the pinhole camera had to expose for so long that the streets looked deserted except for one guy getting a shoe-shine...
As for me, I'm not that patient. I just use the clone tool... (Which yes, is a lot more work in the end than if I took multiple photographs and then composited them, or took one really long exposure) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"bitched and moaned about people with real talent."
Yeah because it takes real talent to do basic photo editing like this... I've been doing this kind of stuff since I was 12. It all started back in the good ol Paint Shop Pro by swapping bodies and head and blending to make it look right, from there it naturally progressed to be actually useful. Its not hard and doesn't take any talent. - OBKenobi, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1When is someone going to make a ***** Deluxe Paint clone for Windows?
- MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I liked it, very informative and useful for artwork applications too. I wanted to see a picture of a partially brushed out tourist to get an idea of the type of patterns the brush makes but otherwise no problems, I will to try it myself now that I have the info. Nice how to :)
MRS - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Take the shot at dusk (with a tripod of course) it looks better than a glaring-sun midday shot and the people who move in the seconds you need to expose will blur out and give you a nice feeling of motion and activity which is a part of the overall scene. (Ludwig got here first but I'm leaving it up) :)
To me tourists are part of what makes something a tourist attraction and tell part of the story of the image. If a picture is worth taking its worth getting right in there where the crowds are not actually 'in' the shot (ie: detailed closeups, upward perspectives, etc). - billtvshow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a good solid tutorial, although it would perhaps be more complete if it had information on properly cloning over anyone that can't be removed via this method, as you may not always have enough multiple shots and/or perfect shots available to guarantee everyone can be masked out.
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can also do this using panorama software like Realviz Stitcher. With that you might even be able to get away without using a tripod, although I strongly recommend using one.
- FishPoisonCon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1.....clone tool - multiple shots/masks are for losers! j/k
(and no, clone tool is not "bad", but most people that "use" it are - it's an art, like painting.. in fact, it's EXACTLY like painting) - Spizzat2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I did this in paint once. Some woman got in the way of my picture of the Reichstag. Fortunately, grass is ubiquitous and the Reichstag is pretty much a mirror image. It took me a few hours, but I felt like a MS Paint master.
"I use MS PAINT!" - StanleyKoolPrik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use a different, but far more effective technique to remove tourists from my photos: a baseball bat...Then I take the image into Photoshop to remove the blood stains.
- veersite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I just take a sec to scream some barely intelligible profanity at the top of my lungs while shooting a few times into the air with my 38. I never to seem to have any tourists in my photos.
Now if I could just get my friends to keep their eyes from getting so big... - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Technically wouldn't you be the tourist/s and everyone else be locals?
- ilkeryoldas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0dont bother, let some1 else do it: http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/
- ratzfatz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Nice idea but way too much complicated for me. I'm using the available Germany based automated webservices:
http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/
(I'm not affilated with them) - theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1right after i saw the title... "silenced beretta?"
- crossers, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0so you want to say, that soon our digital cameras will be mini computers?
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http://www.chasr.org/ - crossers, on 02/25/2008, -1/+0A really useful tool. There is more about other tips on http://www.emergencysoft.com and http://www.mitip2007.org
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i do this! - Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Almost the same thing can be done with Ultimate Paint. Just use your brush to wipe the tourists into the alpha (transparent background) channel on all your shots. Then use Misc/Math to logically OR all the shots together. Maybe not as elegant as using layers but far easier and $34.95 for Ultimate Paint vs. $649.00 for PhotoShop CS is quite a savings. Plus, UP loads fast and can use many PS plugins. If you liked Deluxe Paint on the Amiga you'll be right at home. ( no affiliation)
- phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1why would you take several pictures, do all that photoshopping, and slap it together to create the illusion of noone being there. there's tons of images (commercial?) of every landmark, without any tourists, just use that, and call it your own.
- washcapsfan37, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Not very interesting or innovative. Basically you have to take several pictures and hack them together with an image editor.
Another bad way of doing this is to use the "Clone" tool and use existing (and hopefully repitive) background.
Buried as lame. - 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5is this like removing that swat team officers finger from the trigger in the Eileen Gonzalez photo ?
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6Refer to the previous story on Digg's front page... "How to Feed A Black Hole"
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