I'm trying to make an acceptable passport photo. There's 'edge shadow' - you know? Subject too close to the back wall when the photo was taken and one side has a little shadow outlining it.
How to remove that?
How many to do? This example from UK passport office as example of 'unacceptable' All depends on the photograph(s)
In terms of speed, using the fuzzy select tool
and a suitable value for
Theshold + a bit of
Feather edges might get a selection to fill with a background colour. screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/xStR55F.jpg
A bit slower, is (carefully) clone out the shadow using a fuzzy brush.
https://i.imgur.com/GDtmTbx.jpg
Slower again, click round the outline with the free-select tool to give a selection. Invert and then fill.
You could try scissors tool to get a selection, I find it never makes a very good one but worth a try. Foreground select unlikely to work on this type of image.
Thanks for that. I was battling on and I finished up slowly erasing it all. Much magnification etc. Then I did the colour curve thing with the mask, trick I learned just yesterday and am still absorbing. That leads to deleting all the background which I replace with new white.
