Blog Post #4: Heal Thyself
Choosing the distractions to heal/clone Before I started this assignment, I carefully went through my meme assignment photo to detect what pieces in my photo that can be deemed distractions that I wanted to remove. I utilized both the healing and cloning tools to make these changes come about. The two distractions that I identified with my photo were an "intrusions", which was the guy to the left of the girl taking the picture, and the "black holes", which were the black clouds in the back ( Ultimate Photo Tips, 2022). Image before/after cloning -- Side by Side Comparison As you can see down below, I selected the cloning stamp tool to be able to eliminate the distraction of the college student waking by on the left, which is an "Intrusion". I used the "alt, option" key manuever that we spoke about in class to drag the blue sky, the water, and the sand, to remove the man making him look like he was never in the photo (Heagney, in-class discussi...