Batch process tattoo removal with Photoshop?

9 years 9 months ago #383572 by V Studio
I'm guessing this might be a long shot, but I'm going to ask any way.  I shot a wedding 2 weeks ago and the bride has a tattoo visible in nearly all her photos and wants it removed.  I know I can match her skin tones and heal brush or clone it out just fine.  I've done it on 6 or 7 photos already.  What I want to find out is if there is a way to make this happen via a batch process to the other nearly 400 photos? 


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9 years 9 months ago #383609 by garyrhook
A) Hopefully you are charging her for each and every edit. That's just insane. (I would never include tattoo removal as part of normal editing.) Why didn't she cover the silly thing up with makeup or an appropriate dress?

2) You can try using a layer selection if it's a single-color piece, which might help you mask it. Otherwise, I can't think of anything.

My copy of "Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques" by Scott Kelby doesn't mention either tattoos or batch processing in the index.

You're likely going to have to go through each one. I'd charge accordingly.


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9 years 9 months ago #383698 by Mayo
How would you if potentially the person is in different position?  

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9 years 8 months ago #390059 by Eliffman
I don't think so, unless that person is in exact same position


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9 years 8 months ago #390069 by ubookoo
Someone could probably write an algorithm (like Facebook's face recognition) to identify the tattoo image location in several pictures but that would be a long shot and expensive coding. Sounds like this is a completely manual process.

Although I have not seen the tattoo, can you convince her to keep it in the pictures since it really is who she is?


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9 years 8 months ago #390098 by Scotty
The answer would be no.

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