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Remove Twig
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This is a difficult answer because there are several tools involved!
I used the:
Spot Healing Brush Tool
Clone Stamp Tool
Brush Tool
Blur Tool
Work in very small zoomed in areas! Take your time and keep jumping back an fourth (de-activating and re-activating) from the edit layer to the original image. The Idea is to rebuild as close to the original as you can.
It's very hard to create a step by step. It would be too long! Please ask questions if you have any...........I will do my best to be more specific!
I used the:
Spot Healing Brush Tool
Clone Stamp Tool
Brush Tool
Blur Tool
Work in very small zoomed in areas! Take your time and keep jumping back an fourth (de-activating and re-activating) from the edit layer to the original image. The Idea is to rebuild as close to the original as you can.
It's very hard to create a step by step. It would be too long! Please ask questions if you have any...........I will do my best to be more specific!
JeffK
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Just to see what AI could render, took a screen shot of the above and tried the following tools:
First Version - Remove Tool - single pass:
Second Version - Used Object Selection Tool around twig, then Select>Modify>Expand selection, then Generative Fill:
Note - it's not always this close and often needs retouching. You would also need the updated version of PS with these tools
if you want to try them. (*There's a part of me that hates these tools, but sometimes...)
First Version - Remove Tool - single pass:
Second Version - Used Object Selection Tool around twig, then Select>Modify>Expand selection, then Generative Fill:
Note - it's not always this close and often needs retouching. You would also need the updated version of PS with these tools
if you want to try them. (*There's a part of me that hates these tools, but sometimes...)
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Yes I agree!!! My general observation (not directed at anyone) is that using AI requires no skill all of the time. Absolutely any 5 year old can use AI! If that works for you, then who would argue with that!
Soon there will be no human skill set that can't be replaced with AI. Sad.
Oh look at what you did! Thank you so much. I have many wildlife photos with a twig or a leaf taking away from the overall photo. I'll work on this. Thank you again.
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Part of my teenage life was as a street mechanic - tuneups, brakes, and other street do-ables. I did put in some time at a Chevy dealership and got deeper into the moving structures of cars. In a way, that was a turning towards my future as my career became more grounded in book and packaging production. I've always loved the structure of things - how they're made and how they work. This affects how I consider AI which speaks to the loss of hands-on work and the lack of insight how things are put together. I guess that's the romantic in me. Some of it is nostalgia, for what was. But some of it is loss of the ability to build, to structure things. To take things apart and put them back together again is lost to the push of a button, to convenience. The irony is this is why I'm drawn to Photoshop - even though it lives in a digital universe, it's nature is that of building, examining, making judgements and creative decisions. Something will be lost along the way but absolute resistance is futile. Unless you choose to get your hands dirty and do some hard work... 
I love you perspective.Part of my teenage life was as a street mechanic - tuneups, brakes, and other street do-ables. I did put in some time at a Chevy dealership and got deeper into the moving structures of cars. In a way, that was a turning towards my future as my career became more grounded in book and packaging production. I've always loved the structure of things - how they're made and how they work. This affects how I consider AI which speaks to the loss of hands-on work and the lack of insight how things are put together. I guess that's the romantic in me. Some of it is nostalgia, for what was. But some of it is loss of the ability to build, to structure things. To take things apart and put them back together again is lost to the push of a button, to convenience. The irony is this is why I'm drawn to Photoshop - even though it lives in a digital universe, it's nature is that of building, examining, making judgements and creative decisions. Something will be lost along the way but absolute resistance is futile. Unless you choose to get your hands dirty and do some hard work...
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have to agree, however, i suspect we're both very old school - i come from a tv / video background where creating a blue screen was only possible using $100K of equipment, and even then still had a halo. now, pulling a green screen is almost obsolete, simply masking the subject is almost a button push away.
times change, and so does peoples perception of what a 'professional' is. i think nowadays a professional, in corporate terms at least, is someone who knows the fastest, cheapest answer to any given problem - be it prompting chat gpt for writing an intro, to removing objects with ai.
ah for the good old days... were they?
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OH man do I have a ton to say about this!!! But I'm going to end this conversation as it's bordering on a hijack! Let's re-direct this conversation more to answering the OP's question! Maybe someone will open another thread on the AI topic.
Perfect Sam. The 'jumping back and forth to the original' is sound advice.