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What tool to remove people and ghosts? (ibb.co)

submitted 11 months ago by Rhyrok@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I needed to take night sky pictures yesterday with long shutters. At the time I didnt mind the people on it since I was going to crop them out if needed, but now I think it would be nice to keep the way it is but removing the people/ghosts.

How can I do that? I tried photoshop generative fill and lightroom heal, but both of them looked awful. Not sure how to start.

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[–] shemp33@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t know if this was a one time event and my suggestion is too little too late, but you could take multiple frames using a tripod, people will be in and out of the frames, which is fine. Then you load all the images into photoshop as layers, use the align layers tool, then use the median function for blending.

That goes pixel by pixel and compares that to the other values in the other layers, and chooses the pixel value that is the median. That should leave the final image to consist of only the pixels that are supposed to be there.

There’s a lot of examples but here is one quick one — https://fotographee.com/remove-people-images/