Photoshop advice on removing text from a gradient background

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Hi, I've been using photoshop for a while but just wanted to pick some of your brains on the best and easiest way of removing say, white text from a gradient background ?

I've had a go at clonestamping but it took ages and looked rubbish, I tried using the blur tool afterwards but it still didnt look right.

Tried the content aware spot healing brush etc and still looked crap, leaving artifacts behind and not matching the gradient.

Heres the image incase it helps, I dont want it actually doing for me, just advice on the right tools to use :

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj293/D4rkstar/09911440.jpg



I want to remove the Parkoz hardware community text from the image, I hope this isn't violating any forum rules, if it is ill upload the image again with blurred out text.
 
I'm using CS5, I'll have a look. Do you have to mask off the area before filling ? Could you guide me through the steps you used ? Cheers.
 
Bah, content aware makes a hash of it the way I'm doing it. I roughly made a selection around the text, pressed delete, chose content aware and it ended up including loads of mess from around the chrome ring.

How do I make a selection on the inside and outside of the troublesome circle ?
 
PardonTheWait said:
I have no idea what you mean by content aware, I learnt all my photoshop from work so I have a bit of a sledgehammer approach to most things. I'll try and explain it as best I can.

This is very manual but the shapes you're dealing with are simple so it will work well.

Make a fresh blank layer, get the circle marquee and select the outer edge of the ring. You'll do this by making a circle roughly the right shape, then using transform selection. Once you've got the box around the selection, you need to skew it by using a combination of ctrl, alt + shift and dragging the handles- try it and you'll get the gist pretty quick, it lets you skew it. If I'm honest I forget which keys do what at this moment. I use a Mac as well which doesn't help when trying to explain things to PC users because the keys are muddled up. I'm pretty certain it's ctrl and then drag the handles that are on the edges, not the corners. You'll see what I mean.

Get that selection right, and fill it with your gradient.

Then make that whole layer invisible and do the same thing with the inner ring. Get the circle and skew it til it's right. (you could also ctrl click the first layer and then shrink that selection, it'll scale). Now fill it. Just with black or anything. (Or make a path out of it. Both work. I fill and select though because I'm cackhanded so I'll explain it that way).

Then ctrl click that layer in the layers palette - this will make a selection of that smaller circle. Make this layer invisible now or delete it, your selection will stay put.

Go back the first layer you made, and delete the middle. You should be all done now.

As I said, I do work a little cackhanded but I get stuff done!
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Thanks a lot, I'll have a go and post the results
 
Awesome ! ^ I managed to do it using the magnetic lasoo tool and content aware delete. I tried using the other method but got stuch at selecting the second circle ! I just couldn't make a decent second selection to make the hollow "O" shape, although I'll try and learn it for the future as I can see it would be handy to know. Anyway, heres my paltry effort :

09911440edit.jpg


Bit rough but I'll clean it up some more later.

Cheers for the help guys, always fun to learn new Pshop skills.:)
 
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