The Disappearing Kid

A buddy of mine sent me this photo recently and asked if I could photoshop the girl in the yellow and the guy in the black out of this picture for him.  The little girl with her arms around him is his niece.  I have no idea who the others are or how the little girl in yellow ended up so prominently in the photo.

A couple of hours later this is the photo I sent back to him.

Poof!  Like magic they're gone.  Pretty cool, huh?  I did a little adjusting to the exposure and sharpness in Lightroom to remove some of the original photo's haziness.  I cropped out the guy in black since he was close to the edge of the photo anyway.  Then I moved over to Photoshop to remove the little girl and repair the lettering on the sign.  I finished things off by using a slight Gaussian Blur to throw the background just a little out of focus and pop the subjects off the page.

I recently started using Lightroom and it is a fantastic program.  I used to think I could do everything I needed to do in Photoshop and didn't want to "waste" my money on yet another program.  Boy was I wrong!  I am finding that I probably do 80% of my photo processing work in Lightroom, using Photoshop for the "heavy lifting," such as removing little girls dressed in yellow!

Keep shooting!

Ryan