Any tips on cloning??

I have loads of car pics, but they have people legs etc, pushchairs etc, I tried cloning but it looked fairly pants to be truthful.

Anyone have any tips on how to remove people without if looking rubbish???

Like this for example....





THANK YOU xx

IF you work on a small area at a time and try and work in straight lines whether it be vertical or horizontal. I then just blurred it a little bit to hide any glaring mistakes but as i said i only did it really quickly

Thank you Sam, you make it sound easy. I will try keeping in straight lines, maybe that is where I have been going wrong???

Going to have a practise
Thanks x

Experiment with larger brushes too - as sometimes they can make it look more natural. Also, don't be afraid to use another pic to clone from, esp handy if you took two pics the same one where the subject was great and the other where the bits you didn't want in, weren't in

Ooooo never thought of using another picseems obvious now you have said it I was wondering how I could clone out legs if there is not much grass to use.
Thanks Azz

A thing i like to do if doing the cloning on a background is to desat the background a little helps separate the subject from the background and keeps the eye drawn to the subject and away from the cloning. Generally I find using a soft edged brush is best for cloning, and sampling from different area's a lot.

Thank you Stan, another top tip

I am still practisingwill let you all know how I get on, mine just looks quite fake, but I suppose it comes down to practise

One thing I have been trying recently, if there is a large area to clone out do it on a duplicate layer and be really messy so it goes over what you want to keep and helps with making it non uniform. Drop the opacity of this layer a bit so you can see the bits you want to show through, then make that cloned layer into a layer mask and use the black and white brushes to remove the bits that go over the edge. As its a layer mask it lets you just go in and fix bits really easy with the white and black till your happy.

What i do when cloneing backgrounds is to make another layer clone a area from the original to the cloned area then duplicate the layers then you can place them where ever you want doings this reduces the clone overlap.
Then just change little areas so the don't all look the same like some brown areas all in the same area repeated again so it looks like you have cloned it. Always try and keep as close as you can the area you are cloneing as in this picture the part where it is cloned is out of focus slightly as the main subject is the car and this correct who wants to see the background. Also keep an eye on your lighting/ shading when cloneing as well.

I do mine the same way as Leo suggested. There is a alot more control in it that way Just to add though, i use a really soft edge brush to avoid any hard lines.