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Need help blurring faces

I am making a DVD cover for my friend (about 65% complete) but I've stopped because I am having problems with the faces. I spent about 20 minutes cutting these 2 men out, their hair was hard but I managed it.

Their faces are all bitty, I can get rid of some of this using the blur tool but I am having trouble near their mouths, nose and eyes. The blur just ruins the face.

Could someone help me please? Here is the image... (btw I know this isnt actual dvd size, but it fits my friends specially designed DVD cases fine)

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Its hard to see so Ive put the 2 men on their own, zoom in with Photoshop and you will see...

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How are you "cutting" the faces out?

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omg

What do you mean? I got the 2 men from a picture and I cut them out using the polygonal lassos tool. I then transferred them over to my DVD cover.

I dont want to cut the faces out, I am happy with them but the faces have all bits in it. Here is a zoom of the faces...

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Ah, so that's what you mean by bitty.

Most of the time, stuff like this is really hard to undo. You could, however, try using the eyedropper tool to get a sample of the colour of the skin, then brush over it with a small brush with a bit of opacity taken away. It'd take a while, though, and you'd have to zoom in really closely and be very precise.

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omg

clone stamp for the win!

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Using the clone stamp tool seems like it might take forever.

Could you possibly start with a better picture of the two guys? As in, one that has a better resolution, one that doesn't have the halftone pattern on it? Otherwise, Nimativ's suggestion is going to be your best bet. You might check to see if these guys have a fan site, since they were the kings of Saturday night ratings for a while.

Last edited by liquid_arch, June 20th, 2005 12:25 AM (Edited 1 times)

Damn I was really hoping for an easy way out.

These are the best pictures I can find, there are other pictures of them but they are very old or not suitable for the front cover of the DVD.

I will try and fix this but I dont think I can.

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can you attach the orignal images?

The original image from where I got the people from can be found here >>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephanie.mirza/Ant_And_De ... Takeaway_2-front.jpg

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