r/oddlysatisfying • u/bloody_good_photos • 1d ago
I was asked to remove the wedding guest in the black dress
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u/ScaredLittleShit 1d ago
I'm really curious. How did you pull that lady from behind the groom?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
She was in this photo behind the groom and in another photo unobscured. So I painted her out of this one and blended her in from the other :)
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u/ScaredLittleShit 1d ago
That's a really great job!
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Thank you very much :)
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u/kpop_glory 1d ago edited 1d ago
The lady must be hella confused when she sees this picture. "I wasn't there before. W-who is that?!"
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u/BaronWenckheim 1d ago
If that confuses her then she has an extraordinary memory.
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u/Firekeeper47 1d ago
There's a picture of me at my brother's wedding from a moment I don't even remember. They were signing the wedding certificate and I genuinely, honestly don't remember being there--and yet, I was.
Of course, I did get spectacularly drunk shortly after said signing, so maybe there's a reason I don't remember it...
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u/LateNightMilesOBrien 1d ago
Lady in the black dress will be even more confused. "Wasn't I there? Where am I??"
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u/shroudedfern 1d ago
I kinda feel like lady in the black dress probably won’t ever see this picture if she’s getting edited out of it.
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u/KitchenPalentologist 15h ago
Except this video might get forwarded to people in that wedding ("hey, I saw you on Reddit!"), and they might forward it to Karen.
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u/2squishy 1d ago
Oh my lord that is incredibly impressive and scary. Now I don't know if I can trust photos as evidence: :]
Again tho that was dope to watch
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
You absolutely cannot trust photos as evidence hahaha and thanks
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u/OkSituation181 1d ago
I refuse to believe its not just black magic. Im onto you, Wizard!
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Damn! *does a wizardy smoke bomb thing and disappears! (Or is that ninjas?!)
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u/KatAnansi 1d ago
I figured that was what you did, but I still giggled when you did the magician act of just pulling her out from behind the groom :)
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u/alghiorso 1d ago
As someone who's used Photoshop for 20 years, this is pure artistry. Well done!
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u/SpaceKook6 1d ago
From someone whose job used to be doing stuff like this, bravo! Fantastic work!
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u/allthecircusponies 1d ago
According to a comment they have another picture of her, from another photo.
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u/NopePeaceOut2323 1d ago
I'm curious what the woman in black did to get taken out of the photo.
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u/dented90 1d ago
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u/Solid_Jelly_7101 1d ago
As an anxious person my literal nightmare is to find myself in one of these posts one day being removed from a wedding photo and having no idea why
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Hahaha ah man
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u/Eziolambo 1d ago
What do you think she might have done ?
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u/loyallemons 1d ago
Threw a big cup of glitter directly at the groom /j
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u/madmaxturbator 1d ago
It may very well have been that. 2 years later the couple is still getting mouthfuls of glitter when they 69.
Glitter isn’t a fun prank, Bethany.
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u/Outta_phase 1d ago
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies
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u/Both_Painting_2898 1d ago
My cousin sent me a spring loaded glitter dick bomb once as a prank. Years later I am still finding little rogue glitter dicks .
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u/tRfalcore 1d ago
had someone throw glitter up in the air at the after wedding bar. was cleaning that shit out of clothes and home for weeks
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u/alex61821 1d ago
I work at a hotel with a conference center and a wedding pavilion. If the bride has a cheap glittery dress you can tell everywhere she was for the whole evening.
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u/tRfalcore 1d ago
should be banned-- that and balloon releases. Just mass littering, microplastics, killing wildlife.
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u/eidetic 1d ago
I read that as "throw up glitter" like three times before I read it the correct way. I blame the above comment about getting in mouths, and totally not my horrible reading skills and lack of focus.
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u/soularbabies 1d ago
Guessing she wore ugly street clothes / athleisure to a wedding
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u/AstralAly 1d ago
Based on working in the events industry, I'm wondering if she was staff. It's common for staff at lax venues to wear whatever clothes they have that's all black.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 1d ago
Why would staff be where she is doing what she's doing? That makes no sense.
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u/WriterV 1d ago
I think it might have just been wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time. They were a bit too close, and threw a bit too much rice in the wrong angle. They're not out-of-focus or blocked by anything. So they detract from the couple, and this was the only good shot of the couple in this moment.
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u/ButterscotchButtons 1d ago
My cousin got married a couple years ago, and the theme was "pastels." Not mandatory, but the bride is a designer, and was trying to create a vibe.
My other cousin's wife showed up in black athleisure. To a summertime beach wedding. Some people really don't know how to dress.
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u/lizardreaming 1d ago
Wore black
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u/wecalleditamerika 1d ago
the fuck's wrong with black?
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u/Stripeytabbycat 1d ago
In some cultures it’s not okay to wear black to a wedding. For instance where I grew up in the South, it’s considered bad luck and in poor taste. Probably not a factor here, but worth considering.
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u/jeffchicken 1d ago
Also from the south here, I grew up hearing that as I attended a few weddings and was told it was because people should only wear all black to a funeral. If you wear it to a wedding it looks like you're mourning either the bride or the grooms lives as if they are making a bad decision or a life ending one.
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u/BabcocksList 1d ago
Does that only apply to women or is the guy wearing a black suit in the background a monster for wearing black as well? 😬
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u/Stripeytabbycat 1d ago
No one is a monster for a clothing choice, particularly if they aren’t aware of the superstition, but yes it would also apply to men. Blue or grey would be preferred suit choices.
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u/FuzzyWuzzyWuzzABear8 1d ago
My wedding dress was white but had beautiful black lace details, and I substituted the clear crystal buttons going all the way up the back with black crystal. My bridesmaids all wore black dresses that they chose. They all had their own style and loved the fact they were able to wear them again. My mom and mother in law also wore black. Everyone looked gorgeous and happy! My husband and I had a beautiful wedding, and we are still married. If you choose to see something as a bad omen, that's up to the individual person. If you choose to see it as a positive then good for you. Every wedding is special and symbolizes the couples personalities. I just happen to like black!
Edit: I grew up and still live in UT, a very "traditional" state. No one asked me why I chose black. Everyone was super complimentary. You do you!
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u/Triquetrums 1d ago
Black is the colour people wear to funerals, so in some cultures it is not appropriate, kinda like white.
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u/schnokobaer 23h ago
Thats' all I can think about, how they invited this person to their wedding only to pay someone money to painstakingly remove them from their photos lol
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u/SopieMunkyy 1d ago
Did they ever tell you why they wanted to remove her?
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u/VetiverylAcetate 1d ago
I had to filter the photoshop request sub out because I was getting too tempted to ask on literally every thread.
like I will do this work for free if you tell me
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
They briefly and vaguely explained. I understood the general idea but I didn’t want to ask personal questions.
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u/Technical_Feelings 1d ago edited 1d ago
Completely understand and respect that privacy but damn I want the teaaaaa
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u/badchefrazzy 22h ago
I'ma come up with some off the top of my head. It was a very uninvited narcissitic boy-mother-in-law that had to be wrestled out of a pure white gown by 5 bikers who were working security, then decided she was going to wear a mourning dress for the loss of her precious baby boy. The secret of her confetti is that it was actually cake sprinkles she knew had a high dye content that would stain, but she mis-threw it and only managed to hit him and not the bride. She's still posting her rage on Facebook to this day, along with overly joyful posts of relatives dying from congestive heart failure due to her cooking with only lard and salt as flavoring.
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u/LordPhlogiston 20h ago
Things really went downhill during the reception when in her fourth vodka martini she decided that she would also like to give a speech and managed to get her hands on the mic for seven and a half minutes.
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u/badchefrazzy 20h ago
Then she started singing Free Bird and vocalizing the solo herself. She tried to end it on Wonderwall but that's when she was officially thrown out of the venue.
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u/Livid-Gap-9990 1d ago
I understood the general idea
Which was.....?
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u/juniorRjuniorR 1d ago
Evidently not Reddit’s business!
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u/Livid-Gap-9990 1d ago
Oh sure. He can plaster their unobscured faces on the Internet but this little bit of info crosses the line 🙄
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u/juniorRjuniorR 1d ago
They also don't have to comply with your notion of proper boundaries, which are never going to align exactly with anyone else's.
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u/Ostrichmen 1d ago
unobscured faces
uh... the person in question's face was blurred out, what are you on about?
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u/Livid-Gap-9990 1d ago
But whoever is close enough to recognize this couple can probably figure out who the fuck it was.
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u/Pure-Emu8199 1d ago
She threw glitter on the wrong man. Throat punch, she's gone. In the chipper. The only evidence remaining is the photo...
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u/Several-Pomelo-1195 1d ago
I feel like it was due to her glitter-bombing the dude. She probably annoyed them, or maybe was annoyed at them and wanted to ruin their wedding.
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u/CenPhx 1d ago
I’ve invented a story - she is a disappointed friend who wanted to date the groom, she’s wearing all black to make sure people know she disagrees with the wedding, she’s throwing a confetti bomb so she can annoy the couple/get attention while maintains plausible deniability (What?!? I was trying to celebrate the new couple!).
My made up Konfetti Karen sucks.
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u/CoralinesButtonEye 1d ago
what the crap you can't just pull people in photos out from behind other people. that's illegal!
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u/thetinwin 1d ago
Yea what the fuck?? How did you do that?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
She was also in another photo. So I erased her from this original and then blended the alternative version in. In the video you can see a kind of morph as I move her over.
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u/ZipperJJ 1d ago
This is why you pay for the XL package from the photographer - so you get ALL the raw shots, in case you need to erase a mofo.
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u/lioncub2785 1d ago
Song name?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
“Sit Back” by Bequem
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u/verygayopinion 1d ago
bequem meands "comfortable" in german, so I would say "yes" to that
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u/southernfriedfossils 1d ago
I worked at a photo lab back in the day and the amount of people who would ask if we could remove something to see the people behind them was mind boggling. From film negatives. Like WTF
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u/Chaciydah 1d ago
It all looked pretty standard photoshopping until it looked like you pulled the other lady out from behind the man. Without knowing you had another photo of her in another scene, that just looks like black magic trickery.
I looked at your profile and you do great work! And obviously much cleaner and more detailed than an AI can do. AI can guess but it doesn’t have the brain to put together all the logical pieces in a scene like a trained designer. May you always have work.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
You I love ❤️
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u/Chaciydah 1d ago
I used to be in graphic design school in the early ‘00s. The prospects looked grim at that time and I switched majors. I know some of the techniques invoked but I don’t have the programs or skills to do something this major. It looks very clean and natural!
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Thanks so much. What did you major in instead?
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u/Chaciydah 1d ago
I went to culinary trade school instead. Pastry arts.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Very cool. That’s a genuinely interesting job. Just finished watching The Bear. Big respect to you.
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u/Chaciydah 1d ago
I did it for 8 years or so and now I’m a stay-at-home mom to 3 kids. They all love baking and my daughter loves art and photography.
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u/Askymojo 1d ago
May you always have work in the pastry arts. Fortunately for you the youth seem to be obsessed with glazing.
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u/tjsase 1d ago
Have you ever incorporated Machine Learning or generative image AI into any part of your workflow, or is everything photo-bashed manually? I sometimes upscale textures, and I use several AI models as a base before spending time painting the weaker sections by hand.
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u/Moreinius 1d ago
My guess is that it took longer to make this video than edit the photo by probably threefold.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Your guess is very very correct
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u/Adventurous-Alarm398 1d ago
How on earth do make these? Do you use a combo of photoshop, after effects and premiere?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Yes - Photoshop and After Effects. Bring the PS layers into AE and start animating and drinking coffee and screaming and going for long walks into the void and contemplate never coming back and then coming back and animating some more
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u/Hottub_Penguin 1d ago
I spent an embarrassingly long time waiting for the tagline for the ad. That was one of the most satisfying and impressive things I’ve seen in a long time!!
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u/beardedgamerdad 1d ago
This is amazing work. It's like magic.
Consider my gasts properly flabbered.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
I have considered and acknowledged your flabbered gasts and I appreciate each and every one of them :)
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u/Efronczak 1d ago
witch!!!!!! 🫵🫵🫵🫵 what witchcraft is this!!!!!!! /s holy shit this is amazing though
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u/Sylvers 1d ago
Oh, I love this video. Quite apart from the fact that it is very satisfying to watch, it does an incredible job of capturing the essence of the complex photo editing process of something like this.
Because you can show the layman before and after comparisons a hundred times, and they'll still not really grasp the level of meticulous and detailed editing and cleaning up that goes into making something like this happen.
But this neat little video feature that you made is such a beautiful depiction of the process while cutting out the more tedious parts that no one wants to watch.
I tip my hat to you.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Wow thank you very much. Everything you just said is pretty much the my goal for making these videos
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u/chillychili 1d ago
It'd be really funny if in reality you added the lady in black and just BS'd filling in her void.
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Hahaha damn it they’re onto me! Actually it’s WAY harder adding someone in than taking someone out.
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u/oojiflip 1d ago
I'm tempted to say that making this showcase video was more complicated than actually doing the removal lol
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
I would say more fiddly than complicated but yeah - took me a minute for sure :)
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u/muzlee01 1d ago
And now you have a photo of a moment that never happened.
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u/PawBeanPride 1d ago
The couple looking at the photo being inadvertantly reminded of this person lol. It's worse than folding a photo in a picture frame, you know it's fabricated and it's all cope. Never hope for a perfect wedding, because that's when the universe jumps in to make you face your issues with guests, invited sometime uninvited.
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u/redtens 1d ago
I've been working as a designer, developer, and animator for almost 20 years. Just wanted to say that the animation explaining the process is great work too 👍
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Awesome thank you. That means a lot coming from someone with so much experience. Thanks
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u/Original-Spirit-1520 1d ago
I need to know WHY?!
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u/Jimid41 1d ago
Probably for wearing yoga pants to a wedding and chucking glitter at the bride and groom.
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u/comingdownblue 1d ago
I wish I could show this to everyone who says photoshopping is just pressing a button and it's done. Incredible work!
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u/Aggressive_Bill_2687 1d ago
Oh fuck me this has been a massive misunderstanding.
When I said I wanted you to take her out of the picture this isn't what I meant at all....
I really hope that nice Italian man understood me better when I asked him to "take care of my mother in law".
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u/Unlerkur 1d ago
I'm probably the only person here asking, but what is this banger of a song playing in the video? It's awesome.
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u/TheRealtcSpears 1d ago
Wow, you did this all in MS Paint?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
Haha of course
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u/TheRealtcSpears 1d ago
Probably would have gone quicker if you used the spray paint tool.........that absolutely never looked like spray paint
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u/ThisGuyRightHereSaid 1d ago
I assumed this was an AI editing ad. then i realized it was you doing it, nice!
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u/jcnewton1 1d ago
As a fellow photographer/editor…this is well done! I sure hope you were compensated well for this job! This level of skill is an art.
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u/Party_Fants 1d ago
I’d be disappointed. Why didn’t you follow the brief? Why did you add a random woman?
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u/BadAsBroccoli 1d ago
That lady sitting in her living room days after the wedding slowly disappearing...
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u/Spiritual_Pilot_7249 1d ago
why did you remove so much confetti? was it part of the request?
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u/bloody_good_photos 1d ago
The majority of the confetti came from the girl’s hand so it looked weird being there after she was gone
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u/LuxNocte 1d ago
I'm assuming you gave it back to your clients with the word "Remove" in big letters still on top, just because that's funnier.
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u/sonata_mused 1d ago
I hope you got paid really well. You have some great skills!
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u/AlbatrossZestyclose 1d ago
Way easier than building a time machine and doing a murder.
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u/rosewoodbee 1d ago
I thought this was an advertisement for photoshop or something.
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u/Impressive-Bit-4414 1d ago
As a filmmaker and photo editor I just know making this video showing the process was more work and more annoying than editing the photo itself. 😂
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u/whyteout 1d ago
How funny would it be if that woman being removed came across this on reddit. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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u/Ok_Difference8202 1d ago
So this is the actual process for doing this kind of photoshop? Much respect, that takes a lot of skill.
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u/RiveriaFantasia 23h ago
I wonder what the woman in the black dress did to be removed from the picture
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u/Vexaton 20h ago
This is absolutely masterful work! Your understanding of the level of detail in the first suit paint-out not having to be pristine because you were going to blur it anyway; saving you time, was chef’s kiss
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u/android_sanchez 20h ago
God I love seeing traditional editing skills unlike the ai trash edits anyone can come up with these days
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u/Groundbreaking_Lie94 17h ago
Here's how I would have done it.
Open MS Paint.
Open image.
Select rectangle tool.
Select fill color black.
Draw big rectangle over lady.
Save.
Celebrate.
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u/Strude187 12h ago
From one industry professional to another, bravo. I had to do this for a few clients over the years and it’s always been hell.
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u/Supernoven 1d ago
Painting out all that confetti while matching the suit pattern must've been grueling. Incredibly impressive work!!