EASILY Remove a FENCE Using PHOTOSHOP

[@AnthonyMorganti]

For the few of you saying I "copied" this from Unmesh: czcams.com/video/yBCj8Kg9lZg/video.html -- 1.) I do it differently than Unmesh does. 2.) If you search for how to remove a fence on CZcams, you'll find dozens of videos on it. I would bet that Unmesh wasn't the first -- my quick search found one channel with a video, teaching it exactly as Unmesh does it and that video was posted on the same exact day as Unmesh's video. 3.)Why all the hate? I'm just trying to help people yet you feel compelled to post on my videos denigrating me, a person you've never met. I'm a real person who lives a life with emotions -- do you feel better making me feel bad? Who hurt you few people so much that you get joy out of hurting those you've never met? For the majority of you that do support what I'm doing, thank you.

[@emdru]

Hate filled comments run rampant throughout social media. I can only guess that folks with low self-esteem make themselves feel better by denigrating others whom most people in the community admire. Thanks for all your hard work. You are one of my “go to” CZcamsrs for all things Photoshop.

[@davidpavlich8939]

I saw your video on FStoppers. I did a quick search and found the same....other videos that were published before Unmesh published his. I guess being a whiny keyboard tough makes some feel superior. I'm just glad there's photographers out there that take that much time in front of their monitors to make these videos.

[@PatMiano]

Just ignore those loosers who get their fill by trashing others...

[@mrrcassidy]

Photoshop is constantly evolving. Not so long ago the spot healing brush was truly awful, now it's great. What was appropriate several years ago will not be the most effective way today. After Adobe Live perhaps there will be another way and maybe PTC will post a newer vid (or maybe Phlearn will beat him to it). Different editors approach similar problems in different ways. It's useful to compare and contrast then find your own way. I have learnt tons of stuff on this channel - please don't be put off.
Keyboard warriors remind me of the 'tough' guys who hang mini boxing gloves from their rear view mirrors. Generally inadequate and would run a mile if you said boo to them in the street.

[@johngiardina737]

Thanks for your videos. They're great. Ignore them.

[@leniehulse1621]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I am sure so many people will be happy for this video! ❤️

[@yeexiong09]

You have the best moving fence video on CZcams. You’re very detailed in your explanation. Thank you!

[@catherineepommett8526]

Thank you for this informative video! I've taken so many photos at zoos or preserves where fencing has made my photo less than optimal. In fact, I had never heard of the quick mask tool!! Now, I'm fully prepared to use it! Gratitude abounds!!!

[@mickey08love]

Dude your tutorial is exactly what im looking for its very detailed for someone who is slow like me thank you!

[@Karmer]

Same. I love the clarity, I appreciate you taking the time to explain. The zoom-ins are super helpful, and I like that you show what buttons are being pressed as I'm currently not using audio. A really well thought out tutorial and it's finally helped me solve this problem (whilst learning some new things).

[@howardthompson7661]

I saw this 2 yr ago but remembered it was out there. good fix

[@alanm.6096]

Anthony: as difficult as it may seem sometimes, you simply have to let things roll off your back and move on. I don't know of anyone who hasn't been targeted with negative comments. Anticipate it, ignore it and continue to do what you do best: offer people some complimentary education that they should appreciation for.
I am guessing Unmesh has some stories he could tell as well.

[@stevejarvis186]

Hi Mr Morganti, this is fantastic. I have got so many photos in my LRC catalogue of Lions and Tigers taken at a zoo we regularly visit In Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom. I took them with a 500 mm lens in the main, so I`ve managed to almost get rid of the fence, but now I can go into all these photos and clean them up using this technique. Thank you so much for this video.

[@AnthonyMorganti]

In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to remove a chainlink fence that is in front of your subject.
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[@AnthonyMorganti]

For the few of you saying I "copied" this from Unmesh: czcams.com/video/yBCj8Kg9lZg/video.html -- 1.) I do it differently than Unmesh does. 2.) If you search for how to remove a fence on CZcams, you'll find dozens of videos on it. I would bet that Unmesh wasn't the first -- my quick search found one channel with a video, teaching it exactly as Unmesh does it and that video was posted on the same exact day as Unmesh's video. 3.)Why all the hate? I'm just trying to help people yet you feel compelled to post on my videos denigrating me, a person you've never met. I'm a real person who lives a life with emotions -- do you feel better making me feel bad? Who hurt you few people so much that you get joy out of hurting those you've never met? For the majority of you that do support what I'm doing, thank you.

[@r.v.niddrie9111]

Absolutely awesome tutorial. As usual u r the best utube tutor I have ever watched. Thank you thank you

[@ZanStermecki]

This is really a simple thing to do once you know how and is absolutely worth taking the time. It makes an image 100 times better

[@Video2Webb]

So... Quickmask, black brush, white if you need to undo a stroke or area of stroke, turn off Quickmask which produces a selection, then do Content Aware Fill and Boom! The fence is gone and then ensues a pile of touch up with Spot Healing brush, Clone Stamp, and Healing Brush.. Thank you so much for this video!

[@arthurponsart6969]

Thanks Anthony Great video I just switched over to photoshop after using elements for 4 years and your video have been a great help

[@marksvendsen2096]

Thanks for another masterful lesson. FYI: 1. Shift F5 brings up the fill menu on a PC, 2. a brush hardness of 100% is needed to (almost) completely remove the wires. The first time I tried it, brush hardness was set to around 50% and removal was incomplete.

[@jorgemtrevino]

Ditto. 👍

[@VFDirector]

This worked almost perfectly to remove a microphone cord covering a singer's face....just a few clone stamp/healing brush tweaks later and I have a usable photo! THANK YOU!

[@charlieross-BRM]

That will come in handy. I've been using the clone tool as my 'go to' repair tool since I started using PS. I also just buckle down and use the lasso tool when I need to cut out a foreground object instead of the wand. Wiping a quick selection never gets me results as good the first time as "going in deep" myself.

[@uncle0eric]

Thanks! I hadn't known about the quick mask tool at all before.

[@Tamb1]

Thank you so much for doing this video. I have a photo from over 20 years ago of a bird while O was on top of Empire State Building, and the fence was always blocking it. Now it looks as if I was next to it. Just awesome. I am glad I found your channel.

[@richardbirch4115]

Im trying to touch up some terrible wedding phots for a family member and this video is really going to help with that so thankyou so much!

[@jhmnieuwenhuis]

Excellent video, I will try it myself.
Thanks

[@dianaelledge2447]

I really needed this tutorial for the chainlink fence removal part. Thank you so much!!

[@haroldmassey5966]

I have a couple of fences to get rid of on my granddaughters tennis match. Thanks for the tip Anthony

[@leedonehower3112]

I've pre-ordered and am looking forward to the release of Luminar Neo which purports to have a new tool for automatically removing power lines and unwanted lines from an image. Here's hoping it can remove a chain link fence with a single click!

[@jorgemtrevino]

Thanks for the heads up. It looks interesting but I'll be sure to try it before buying. I've found that some filter suites don't work as well as some native PS ones. Specifically, DxO Nik and Luminar 4.

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Got to try this!

[@longboardfella5306]

Thanks Anthony. Shift F5 brings up content aware on PC's. Also most folk probably know this but if you can shoot with a very fast prime at wide aperture say f1.4 you can generally magic away such fences right from the get go when shooting. But your approach is great where you don't have a choice of lens to do that

[@jlopez7596]

Shift f5 is technically the fill tool which has an option for filling with content aware. It does not bring up the content aware dialouge box which provides the full options. Do you have a link to a tutorial where a fast prime will eliminate the foreground vs just changing the depth of field. I use alot of gobos with fast primes and I have yet to have the item not appear in the image. I would certainly like learn what you mentioned.

[@longboardfella5306]

@@jlopez7596 thanks for the extra info. No link - just personal experiments. I found I needed to put my lens right up against the wire - if there was any distance to the camera it wouldn't blur it out. And the subject needed to be some distance away so that you could focus "through" the wire to the subject. And f1.4 or 1.8 was needed. Hope this helps

[@phlotographer]

@@longboardfella5306 your method of being able to be close to the fence is absolutely correct. The issue is when one can't get close to the fence which can be an issue for safety as big cats etc can create havoc if the photographer is close to the fence so often there is space where humans can stand but the fence might be 15' closer to the animal enclosure and thus can't be eliminated through depth of field even with a fast long focal length lens which also may be too expensive for many non professional photographers and even some pros.

[@shlomoeshet8525]

Thank you Anthony for this REALLY useful tutorial.

[@harvestinemobley4292]

Thank you for this video!!

[@aussie8114]

Very very clever, but I could not remember all those steps in a million years.

[@leedonehower3112]

Actually, it's just a two-step process: 1. paint a quick mask over the fence and delete with the content aware selected. 2. clean up any imperfections as you would in any other image. 95% of the time the spot healing brush will do the job.

[@stevejarvis186]

Fantastic video Mr Morganti I love the way you explain things like this. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too from a UK fan.

[@uweautor571]

Thank you for this tip and video.

[@susiebeardwell5813]

Amazing result, couldn’t believe my eyes! Thank you so much

[@allantodd4068]

Can this be done in Affinity Photo?

[@grahamegannon9708]

I suppose this method could be used to get rid of any repetitive items you need to remove from an image.

[@frankwaters8177]

thanks Anthony. this was helpful for me.

[@FredHerrman]

Wow, really great to know about. Thank you.

[@barryt09]

Hi Anthony - thanks for this one, put it to good use removing some fencing behind a standing stone image.

[@raymondkosos]

Whoa! This is pretty amazing; I probably would of moved past that image thinking nothing could be done with it; I'll have to remember this ...! Thanks for another great tip ...!

[@humblepie3472]

Thank you Anthony, I enjoyed the differences between your way of doing this and that of Unmesh. I'm a fan of you both, and must say I prefer your way on this one. :)

[@apeel2008]

I didn’t notice if you said how much feather to use on the brush when first selecting the fence. Which would normally work better ? a larger brush with 100% softness or a smaller brush with 0% softness?

[@nancyfisher294]

Exactly what I needed and a good review of the other tools. Thanks!

[@Kinadnuf]

Thank you mate, cheers from England.

[@susanmeyer8885]

Great video which will be very useful as I ramp up useful of/ability in Ps. I visited a Raptor rehab facility in Charlotte a year ago and wasn't sure how to rescue some photos of some amazing birds. Thanks for this!

[@Bevieevans8]

The Master

[@Frank-st7dn]

Excellent job thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@bigbigsquid]

Awesome! Thank You :)

[@billbrown3414]

How timely--well, almost: I took a picture of a big ol' bull yesterday with a nice, safe 3-strand barbed wire fence between me and him. I wanted the image to look like I was standing in the pasture WITH the bull to see if anyone thought I had risked life and limb for the shot. I went through a tedious piecewise content-aware fill process and it looks great. The masking tool you demonstrated would have made it a 2-minute piece of cake. Thanks.

[@barryt09]

Thanks Anthony, just what I needed and very clearly explained.

[@stevec1256xp]

awesome content! Thanks!

[@kurtissutley1485]

I love your videos and look forward each day for your contribution to my clue bag. But (oh, that proverbial "but") I will take exception to your adverb "easily". It may be simple but it is tedious and, unless you're desperate for that one particular image, a waste of some very precious time. The technique is certainly transferable and I appreciate your effort. Keep up the great work. JMHO

[@Mrthezanax]

Thanks a lot for this helpful video. You're a ''life saver'' Anthony. Keep up your good job and ignore all these idiots!!!!!!

[@ramonaboone4574]

Great job!! thanks for the idea.

[@johnritchie6775]

Absolutely brilliant as recently took lot’s of photos of a lion behind a fence so I’m going to be busy! Thank you 🙏

[@tonyel99]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@georgecarpenter4126]

Definitely helpful - thank you !

[@jorgemtrevino]

Thanks a bunch for this fine tutorial. I've subscribed to your channel, accolades! 👏👏👏
I might have missed it but in case I didn't folks might want to know the keyboard shortcut for the quick mask tool is *"Q".* Also, if you use a keyboard that is not US standard, you will need to find the increase-decrease keys for your layout. In my case, with a Spain Spanish keyboard it was impossible for me to get the ] & [ to work. Surprise, this is new to me: the characters next to the 0 (zero), in my case ' (apostrophe) and ¡ (inverse exclamation) decrease and increase the brush size. Further wonder, you can change size and hardness of the brush *with the mouse!* Just press and drag horizontally with mouse for size, vertical for hardness.

[@J5388T]

A very useful video thanks.

[@allanjones1285]

Very useful tool which I am hoping to perfect. So far my bars do not disappear. What could be wrong?

[@SKMRify]

Excellent.

[@woodyw9798]

Can this be done in One RAW?

[@SinauBarengJistea]

The best 👍👍👍

[@jameskingsley6809]

Thank you our zoo has the majority. Chain link this really helps

[@georgestiros4392]

wow what a great video

[@petermarshall5450]

Thanks!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

Thank you Peter!

[@Elly3981]

I'm using a Windows. How do I get to Content Aware after selecting the fence?

[@alangauld6079]

Great timing. I was at a zoo last week and got a great shot of a jaguar except for the fence! Off to try this right now! Thankyou.

[@bysharcc]

Hi, got a question. or more of a disruptive problem. when i try to erase the fence by coloring it with the quick mask tool, i ultimately cant put that content aware eraser on it. it gets really on my nerves. if you could help me, would be awesome

[@paulgiglia7526]

Anthony - I tried using this technique to remove a wire cable that was in front of my subject. When I followed directions (working on a MacBook Pro) I got a message saying not enough pixels chosen. After some fiddling, I "inversed" the selection and it all worked fine after that. You (or anyone else) have this problem? Seems to be a solution if you do. Thanks for the video. Great tip!

[@ColombianMusclePapi]

😘🙏🏼You have saved me so much time & dinero with your Mad Lad PSD Vids, Dude, thank you!!!

[@deborahburd5876]

Thank You!!!

[@isabellapina-hinojosa5127]

I can't seem to find the response to this - I did all you shared yet when I go to FILL - I cannot choose content aware. I've tried unlocking the the original photo and it still doesnt allow me. I've read I need to rasterize - can't do that either. I have online PS 2021 for PC. Thank you in advance.

[@danistead5536]

Are there any post processing services you would recommend?

[@PSzaboIstvan]

OMG...life saving

[@Rashidul-SEO-Expert]

very nice.

[@danistead5536]

Great post process. My chain link is in the back of the diagram and doesn't seem to work as well. Any suggestions?

[@jackiemann6736]

Did not work on windows. Spent hours coloring the lines but they did not disappear. Tried again , tried a variety of ways to delete the selection

[@jeanetteruano7348]

My fence was not in focus. It was ver light. The mask did not recognize it. Anything I could do for that situation?

[@ChristiaanRoest79]

Thx again Anthony! You forgot to fix the nose though ;-)

[@amylny]

is there a way to remove a fence like this from a 30sec video?

[@fenraven]

In the "old days," I did it with laborious clone and stamp. ;) It worked, but it took a while. That's how I got a terrific pic of a snow leopard, though. :)

[@philrobins9053]

Can this be done in PS Elements?

[@pickypixel]

Perhaps a dumb question: inside Quickmask, & as I go along selecting, how do I undo/get rid of an accidentally chosen selection. Pardon my brain freeze. Thank You!

[@mlad]

Damn! You have a very cool voice.

[@TexasPelican]

Question: do you need to save your work as you progress?

[@phlotographer]

may depend upon the program being used. I often do that but if the program offers history unless you do something dastardly you likely will be ok. Personally, I would do save as and name the file based upon what I did. Creating Macros can be useful and certainly in PSX, save as a project will be perfect and with Luminar, it automatically saves with all the info whenever a save is done by the user. Also a good idea is to have a program or RAID configuration so that incremental BU's are made continuously and then when complete to additional BU's of all files weekly or monthly depending upon use as a personal project or professional. I try to triple BU -- RAID + monthly 2 one stored off premises.

[@Mimiclobster]

I have so many of these that it would be great if Adobe would develop an AI select tool to select chain link fencing.

[@gmverber437]

Brilliant. Thanks!
Personally, from a compositional perspective, I would have restored the grass in front of the feline face-rather than clone it out-as would give more depth

[@michaeljames7931]

Excellent video as always. But sadly I just do not understand photoshop, it literally just goes straight over my head. And no matter how many videos I watch I just don't get it. I use Lightroom daily, but for some reason I cannot use photoshop.

[@mytech3404]

Subscribed plus likes too

[@Starpearl10]

Now my family gatherings won’t be weird in photos

[@paulgibbings9553]

Hi, thanks for the video, I recently took some pictures of a lion, which was further away from fence and I was able to get reasonably close, but as I was using 150-600mm lens the aperture was 7.1 so I have some darker lines that are quite thick but not that noticeable. I have used the dodge brush to try and lighten them up in Affinity photo ( I don't have photoshop), which did a half reasonable job. I have tried using quick mask, but it looked pretty awful. I don't know if that's because I messed up, it was difficult to actually see the specific lines of the fence. Do you have any suggestions as to the best way to remove the fence in that situation.
Thank you

[@phlotographer]

Paul -- maybe communicate with Carl Surry who does AP tutorials and is quite amenable to doing requests. Dave of InAffinity or Olivio might also do something to show the steps for AP. I don't know if Anthony is doing AP tutorials but I am sure he will do something related to this once the wire removal is shown in Luminar NEO so subscribe to his channel as he an others keep on top of Luminar and present great tutorials. I may have something in my collection of images and will try doing something with PhotoScape X but I also tend to try to eliminate power lines etc when taking the exposure in camera. One issue I have with Luminar is that often the Click >Shift > click to select straight lines while available on the MAC platform is not available to the PC user unfortunately.

[@paulgibbings9553]

@@phlotographer Thank you, I had a bit of a search to see if anyone had an instruction video already, but could only find ones for removing clearly visible objects. I'm already subscribed to this channel, but have subscribed now to the 2 others you suggested and will see if they are able to help.

[@BlackCat_2]

Bummer. This was going perfectly until I realized I do not have content aware as an option. :( I am using an older version of Photoshop. Thanks for the tutorial all the same. - Heidi

[@abdulkannady1705]

Mine is grayed out. I have no idea why

[@jbr84tx]

Now when I go to the Zoo I won't have to worry about photographing the animals in their cages!

[@blackislepeastoo]

Haters really need to put their Kleenex boxes away, switch the light on and look at themselves in a mirror - ask themselves 'are you looking at the person you REALLY want to be', if so, hopefully you'll grow up one day.

[@barrysharoff6537]

Appreciate the video a lot, Anthony. Now I'm going to make your life miserable. I have an interesting sunrise taken from in front of my home--no time to go to a clear area. It has a zillion twigs in front of it. Far too tedious to try and remove them using the technique in this video. Any suggestions? They're sort of like a fence, sort of like thick power lines, but neither exactly. I thought of using a color or luminance range mask (since they're a dark brown color), but I don't know what to do after I've made a mask selection with these types of masks. Probably that's because I am ignorant in Photoshop. Would be great if I could then just tell the computer to blend it in with the background and hit delete, but I don't know if anything like is possible in Photoshop or any other program. Help!

[@wjgraham63]

well that did not work. I will have to keep trying.

[@paigewhite9049]

Mine either :(

[@WhittyPics]

Shame Lightroom doesn't have better retouching tools

[@davidf6326]

Or maybe just don't shoot through a chain link fence in the first place 😉

[@stompfolks]

Unmesh Dinda told me that years ago

[@deborahburd5876]

Thanks!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

Thank you Deborah!

[@philrobins9053]

Can this be done in PS Elements?

[@cwp3420]

Thanks!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

Thank you Wes!