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Specific Remove Shadows From Butterfly


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chemglenn

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Hi,

I spent 2 weeks looking for this uncommon butterfly and ended up with only one shot of it as it was both uncommon and very skittish. I'm hoping someone can help me remove the shadows from the midsection and abdomen (Shadow of the stick it landed on, as well as the shadow of its leg).

Thanks so much!

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This is a bit difficult since this is an important image for you. To remove the shadows, my opinion is we would have to "fill in" the areas using cloning or generative fill. Since we really don't know the proper anatomy of this butterfly, it's a bit of a guess. You also didn't mention of it's ok to crop the image to get a closer at the butterfly.

I "removed" the shadow on the abdomen only, I think there's still some shadow higher up but didn't want to disturb the anatomy. I also didn't crop the image but did sharpen it up a bit. Let me know what you think...

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JeffK said:
This is a bit difficult since this is an important image for you. To remove the shadows, my opinion is we would have to "fill in" the areas using cloning or generative fill. Since we really don't know the proper anatomy of this butterfly, it's a bit of a guess. You also didn't mention of it's ok to crop the image to get a closer at the butterfly.

I "removed" the shadow on the abdomen only, I think there's still some shadow higher up but didn't want to disturb the anatomy. I also didn't crop the image but did sharpen it up a bit. Let me know what you think...

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Thank you @JeffK. I'm wondering if this would be helpful? Literally the flash/ sunlight one caused the leg to cast a shadow of the leg onto the thorax. Here's a pic someone else took as a reference if this is helpful. Thank you for being accurate! I really appreciate it! Note: I'm not claiming ownership of the reference image.

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chemglenn said:
Thank you @JeffK. I'm wondering if this would be helpful? Literally the flash/ sunlight one caused the leg to cast a shadow of the leg onto the thorax. Here's a pic someone else took as a reference if this is helpful. Thank you for being accurate! I really appreciate it! Note: I'm not claiming ownership of the reference image.
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The anatomy of this specimen was slightly different from the alternate. But at least it gave me some geography to follow. Did some additional retouching while trying to use the original image as a guide as well. Lightened it up a bit. Provided both uncropped and cropped version.

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