Travel photographers run into a problem photographing street scenes…distractions and clutter caused by wires and cables. In some scenes wires and cables might be part of the image, but other scenes a few telephone cables can really ruin an image. If I am photographing a rickshaw in a busy alley in New Deli, then I might leave the wires untouched. But if I have a beautiful twilight tango image in a rustic alley, I want those wires to go away. The image is about the dancers and raw emotion, not distracting electrical wires.
The image is about the dancers and raw emotion, not distracting electrical wires.
Now we have a new AI powered tool to do it. First, open your image in Photoshop. Next, choose the Remove Tool in the toolbar on the left side. Next, in the properties bar, click on the Find Distractions box and select Wires and Cables from the drop down box (see red arrows in image above). That’s it! Watch photoshop do its magic, finding the wires and removing them.
There are a few things to note. You may be left with telephone poles with no wires, or shadows of wires that are no longer there (image at top of post). Go ahead and use the Remove tool and clean up these areas too. With the tango image above I had to remove a few shadows from the wires, and a few posts that supported the wires. But in under five minutes I cleaned up this image using this amazing new tool.