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The client who asked me to 'just Photoshop out' a whole person from a wedding photo
I was editing a batch of wedding photos last spring for a bride in Cleveland, and she asked me to remove her ex-boyfriend from every group shot... he was the best man. There were 47 photos where he was standing right next to the groom, and she wanted him gone from all of them. I told her it would be an extra $300 and take about 6 hours of meticulous cloning work, and she actually said yes. The weirdest part was when she sent me a follow-up email asking me to keep his hand in one shot because he was holding her purse. Has anyone else gotten a request that was this specific and bizarre?
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faith2717d ago
Yo @wade_anderson that's exactly what I was thinking too lol. Had a bride last year ask me to remove her mother in law from every single photo but leave the giant flower arrangement she was holding in one shot. Spent like an hour figuring out how to make a floating bouquet look natural. People are wild.
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dylan_ward17d ago
Wait, why did she want his hand in there still? That's almost creepier than just leaving a whole arm floating around. Like, did she have some weird sentimental attachment to that specific moment he was holding her purse, or was it more of a "I paid for this purse and it matches my dress perfectly" kind of thing? I can't decide if that makes the job easier or harder, because now you've got to do selective cloning where the hand is still there but the rest of the body is gone. That's the kind of detail that would drive me crazy, wondering if the final shot looks like a ghost is holding her stuff.
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