Hello,

Using the content aware removal tool should be your best option:

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/photodirector/14/pc/enu/07_05_04_content_aware_removal.html

It might be a bit difficult to remove the bench from the area that has the cat's whiskers. You can try by zooming all the way in and using the brushes to only select the bench pixels. Hopefuly, PhotoDirector won't try replacing the bench pixels with whisker pixels. If it does, then this is when you can try and use clone/heal or Content Aware Clone to fine tune the fix maybe

This tutorial gives a brief overview of the tool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBO_L96gHFo&t=1s

This blog post goes into the details a bit more, but is from an older version. Let me know if you have any specific questions:

https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/photodirector-photo-editing-software/131/remove-unwanted-objects-to-make-a-perfect-photo

Cheers
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Quote Hello,

Using the content aware removal tool should be your best option:

https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/photodirector/14/pc/enu/07_05_04_content_aware_removal.html

It might be a bit difficult to remove the bench from the area that has the cat's whiskers. You can try by zooming all the way in and using the brushes to only select the bench pixels. Hopefuly, PhotoDirector won't try replacing the bench pixels with whisker pixels. If it does, then this is when you can try and use clone/heal or Content Aware Clone to fine tune the fix maybe

This tutorial gives a brief overview of the tool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBO_L96gHFo&t=1s

This blog post goes into the details a bit more, but is from an older version. Let me know if you have any specific questions:

https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/photodirector-photo-editing-software/131/remove-unwanted-objects-to-make-a-perfect-photo

Cheers
PhotoDirector Moderator

Hi

Thanks for getting back to me. Still struggling a bit though!

I had previously managed to remove most of the bench, it is just the white behind the whiskers that I am still struggling with.

When I use the content removal tool, I had to do the bench twice to remove it (is that correct?) and it disappeared, but the area behind the whiskers I have had to do multiple times but it has given it a sort of ghosted appearance (see Ghosted image).

So to try and get some of the background colour back in behind the whiskers, I resorted to using the cloning tool (regional adjustment), which is sort of working but difficult to work with as the cloning circles don't disappear!.

I select the cloning tool, set the size, feather and opacity, then when I am finished, I click 'Done'. But the circles don't disappear. As soon as I go back to the clone tool, they reappear - is this correct? Surely once I click 'done' the changes should be accepted (which they seem to be if I export the image) but the previous circles remain if I go back into the cloning tool and I can still edit / move them, shouldn't they disappear? Or is that correct? I would like to be able to carry on making further changes and see what is happening without the previous circles being there. See image snapshot 'Cloning Circles'.

So in order to actually see what the image looks like, I need to export it, but then it is difficult to carry on cloning to darken the area behind the whiskers. So I am having to click on 'guided' to create a new virtual copy, which is irritating and I am sure is not the right way to do it!

Do you have any idea, why when I click on 'done' the circles don't disappear? Or am I just misunderstanding how to use them?

Is there a better way to do this?

To be honest, I am learning the tool, but would still like to find the most efficient way to do this

Again any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your help.

Tereza

Hello,

For me, the cloning circles are hidden as soon as I move my mouse back to the Adjustment panel. They do come back when I mouse back over to the photo.

If this does not work for, then maybe contact CyberLink support and then can help you determine why it is happening.

https://membership.cyberlink.com/support/service/technical-support.do

Cheers
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