Removing background - best solution? (New to LrC editing)

[madison_wi_gal]

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1. macOS 14 Sonoma

I'd love to get this dead tree isolated from the background and power line. LrC can sort of find the "subject" but it misses a lot at the small ends. And then I'm not sure what to do - add a fake background?

It all looks so easy when Terry White does it...

 

[Paul_DS256]

I'd love to get this dead tree isolated from the background and power line. LrC can sort of find the "subject" but it misses a lot at the small ends. And then I'm not sure what to do - add a fake background?

It all looks so easy when Terry White does it...

You may find this easier in PS. If you are not that familiar with PS (like I am) Google the issue and you will likely find step-by-step examples to do what you want. That's what I do when I get to a level of editing that LrC doe not lend itself to.

 

[clee01l]

I'd love to get this dead tree isolated from the background and power line. LrC can sort of find the "subject" but it misses a lot at the small ends. And then I'm not sure what to do - add a fake background?

It all looks so easy when Terry White does it...

Things like delicate tree limbs with background inside are going to always be tough to select with the Sky/Subject/Background tool alone. You may need to fine tune Add or Subtract with the Brush tool. Or simply ignore some of the fine interlaced portions as they may not be noticeable after you have replaced the background.

Or as Paul suggests the same tool in Ps may offer better initial results or control.

 

[madison_wi_gal]

Yes, I tried in PS and it gets most but not all.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Masking in Lightroom is for making edits in the masked area only. You can’t use it to remove something. The new Remove tool in Photoshop will not have any problem with this, but what you need to do is set it to not remove after each stroke. That allows you to brush the entire power line and then click to remove it. This is important because the Remove tool uses AI. If you try to remove only a part of the line, then the tool will think it needs to use the remaining part of the line to create the new pixels.

 

[clee01l]

Masking in Lightroom is for making edits in the masked area only. You can’t use it to remove something. The new Remove tool in Photoshop will not have any problem with this, but what you need to do is set it to not remove after each stroke. That allows you to brush the entire power line and then click to remove it. This is important because the Remove tool uses AI. If you try to remove only a part of the line, then the tool will think it needs to use the remaining part of the line to create the new pixels.

Yes, I'm not used to the new Remove Tool. Far better that the older masking tool. However it you want to replace the whole background or sky, then the masking tool still does the job

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Yes, I'm not used to the new Remove Tool. Far better that the older masking tool. However it you want to replace the whole background or sky, then the masking tool still does the job

To just replace the sky, Photoshop has the excellent Sky Replacement Tool. If you want to move the tree to an entirely new background and sky, then start with object selection and refine the selection with manual tools.

 

[clee01l]

To just replace the sky, Photoshop has the excellent Sky Replacement Tool. If you want to move the tree to an entirely new background and sky, then start with object selection and refine the selection with manual tools.

That too. I have not had much reason to use the newest features of Ps v25.