Clone Wars: Removing Unwanted Objects

Photographer: Matt Kloskowski  Exposure: 8 sec  Focal Length: 17mm  Aperture Value: ƒ/8

Have you ever taken a photo of some majestic landscape and when you open the photo in Elements, only then do you notice a crushed beer can just off to the side of the image? Or you see some really ugly power lines you didn’t see when you took the shot. Or, maybe it’s a crushed beer can balanced on top of some really ugly power lines (okay, that last one was a stretch, but you get the idea). At this point, you have to make an ethical and moral decision. Now, this is an easy decision if you’re a photojournalist—you have to maintain the total integrity of the image, so that beer can and those power lines stay. But what if you’re not a photojournalist? You’re an artist, which means your job is to create the most beautiful, pleasing image you c....