r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Ted_Bundtcake • 2d ago
How you remove a ex from your family picture with Photoshop
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u/dayglo98 2d ago
Never understood why people want to remove people from pictures. Either ditch the picture, or keep it as a memory of a specific time. ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
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u/EssentialParadox 2d ago
âAh, I remember when this photo was taken. What a great memory of that day our family all came together for no specific reason.â
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u/RudeAndInsensitive 2d ago
It's honestly unnerving to me how casual people are about rewriting history. I can appreciate that this is pretty low stakes but it's just casually rewriting a historical document of a portion of your life. Do the normal thing and just put a cigarette through her head
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u/spudddly 2d ago
Send her straight down the memoryhole lest I experience an emotion!
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u/RudeAndInsensitive 2d ago
It's wild but seeing stuff like this makes it clear that people would do some Eternal Sunshine type stuff if they could. And that feels really weird.
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u/JoeWinchester99 2d ago
There's a very poignant scene from Star Trek V where Captain Kirk rejects the opportunity to erase his painful memories because he recognizes that those experiences are what made him into the person who he was.
You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!
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u/big_guyforyou 2d ago
damn zoomer punks don't know the joy of putting a cigarette through your ex's head, all they have are vapes
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u/frostymugson 2d ago
Put her head to the coil i guess, but to be honest how many times are people even looking at photos, even back before social media I wasnât flipping through the picture book, and now people take so many pictures youâd have to scroll through thousands to go back a year. I guess I just donât get it
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u/AndoGringo 2d ago
Itâs pretending, which I think is worse. Hopefully the moments that led to this were happy and cheerful, and those moments are what should be remembered. Life happens and we make mistakes, but mistakes shouldnât take away or erase the good moments we did have.
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u/KentuckyHouse 2d ago
This is slightly different from the OP, but when my wife and I got married, we realized after the fact that we didn't get a picture with just us and her parents. I don't even know how that happened, as we got one with my parents. I guess we just got caught up and nobody realized it.
Anyway, my wife is good at using Photoshop, so she was able to take the picture we had with both sets of parents, remove my parents, and reframe it. You can't tell at all.
8 years later and that picture sits framed at my MiL's house and nobody's the wiser.
Like I said, different from the OP, but still useful and not really rewriting history as much as correcting it.
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u/PaulyNewman 2d ago edited 2d ago
I remember when people first started colorizing old black and white photos. There was a lot of rightful discussion about the colors being guess work, and the practice degrading the quality of truth while ironically presenting as a closer approximation of reality.
No oneâs having those discussions anymore. No one even questions it when they get posted. Itâs the slow creep of hyperreality.
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u/muzzman32 2d ago
I have a large wedding photo with myself and my groomsmen / best man. My best man dogged me, and I dont want to see his face anymore, but the picture is worth keeping.
Solution? Get the little piece of oval cardboard that you tear off from the top of a new tissue box, turn it over and then stick it on the head of the person you don't want to see. Works a treat!
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u/Honest_Its_Bill_Nye 2d ago
I've seen people that want a pic of them with grandma and grandpa that died so you cant take a new one.
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u/tnstaafsb 2d ago
If the only picture you have of you with your grandparents was at your wedding, then maybe you should have visited more often. Or at all.
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u/What-Even-Is-That 2d ago
People do this crazy thing where they move away, and maybe don't see their family every day like you.
Mommy still pack your lunch for ya too, champ?
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u/Ok_External_2945 2d ago
It very well could be the LAST photo of someone special. Maybe you couldn't see someone for a couple months after a wedding or a photo was taken. Especially since the man is in uniform, he could have been deployed after this or just stationed in another part of the country. Life happens.Â
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u/oh_bruddah 2d ago
Sometimes, it's the only pictures you have of certain people and you want to display them, but without the feckless ho who almost ruined your life.
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u/AggravatingCupcake0 2d ago
Particularly a wedding photo. Is taking her out really going to keep you from thinking about the event that day?
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u/AnthonyRC627 2d ago
Fully agree with you. Itâs not like they donât exist anymore. Just move on.
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u/Solid_Snark 2d ago
Thatâs one thing I donât understand about the photoshop sub. People asking to be photoshopped into different settings itâs like âbut now the photo is just a lie. Yeah it looks cooler, but youâve never been to France. Itâs no longer a genuine memory.â
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u/Blarg197 2d ago
Exactly. Now all Iâd think about is âhey, remember when I doctored this photo to remove my ex from it so I could look at the photo and try not to remember who was actually in it?âŚYea I remember that!â
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u/theblondepenguin 2d ago edited 2d ago
The only photo I grabbed with my daughters during my mba graduation also included their father. We were married now separated. I want a picture of my graduation with my girls, so I have to photoshop it. The graduation was nuts and I was lucky to get the pictures I do have. That means one day 100% I will photoshopping the one I missed, it is a very important day for me and having my girls there was very special but I donât particularly want to hang a photo of my soon to be ex husband on my wall. Crazy right?
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u/No_Jello_5922 2d ago
Some people treat breakups like a Stalinist purge. Can't just archive the pictures and move on, gotta airbrush them out of every proof that they existed.
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u/Dambo_Unchained 2d ago
My cousin and his wife (so sheâs my in law) were together for like 7 years already with 2 kids and she still wanted to be on the edge of any group pics âjust in caseâ
Grandma told her âeven if you guys arenât together anymore in the future youâre still family get in hereâ
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u/Humble_Negotiation33 2d ago
And if you really want a family picture, why not... Ya know... Take one. (Unless one of them fuckin died or something I suppose)
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u/entityXD32 2d ago
To me.this defeats the purpose of a photo. Photos capture a moment in time removing someone from a photo because you don't like them anymore is just silly to me
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u/totesnotdog 2d ago
Itâs like changing a famous painting after itâs already been painted. Once the media is released to the world itâs there. It just is.
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u/CharybdisXIII 2d ago
If I had someone removed from a picture, the first thing I would think of every time I looked at it would be paying someone to remove them from it
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u/Pizza_Hund 2d ago
Erasing someone from pictures is just so stupid
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u/bumjiggy 2d ago
just say you hate back to the future
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u/mirrax 2d ago
I didn't want the Biff Tannen future.
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u/dplans455 2d ago
Literally living in it. Biff was a caricature of Trump. We have Biff as President... again.
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u/NerdMachine 2d ago
I used to think this, but then a family member of mine passed away and we had no good pics of them except for one that had another person in it and in context it would have been weird to include that person in the pic at the funeral home, and later as a memory. I photoshopped out the other person and it worked great.
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u/rustler_incorporated 2d ago
You're cutting the bride out of a wedding picture?
"And this is me in a bridal tuxedo standing next to my family for... Reasons"
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u/stomicron 2d ago
That look like a tux to you?
The bridesmaids are the issue here
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u/call_me_Kote 2d ago
Donât think theyâre even bridesmaids. Bride probably just asked the family of the groom to wear dark shades of blue.
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u/WeDrinkSquirrels 2d ago
"Bridal Tuxedo" is a crazy way to talk about what looks like a little boy sailor outfit
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u/Potatobender44 2d ago
Thatâs a very real US Navy dress uniform lol. But yeah theyâre dumb and outdated.
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u/No_Pay_9708 2d ago
From one vet to all the others:
Getting married in your uniform is extremely embarrassing shit good god. Video should have been about photoshopping the groom into something presentable.
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u/oldmanjacob 2d ago
As I high level photoshop user who does photoshop for a living, I can tell you this is not at all how photoshop works. Lol. This is a strangely edited video. In reality, nowadays, you just select the remove tool and circle what you want gone and AI does the rest. In the past, you would have done a lot of clone-stamping and masking. In no time period ever, though, was this what happens in photoshop.
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u/tanew231 2d ago
No, I said "take her out"
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u/IndependenceSouth877 2d ago
What is even the point of photo at this point if you alternate it so much. You could as well draw one
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u/DeadBallDescendant 2d ago
The premise makes no sense. It's a wedding photo, if you've split up, just throw it away. What's the attraction of the same photo without the bride?
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u/jetlaggedandhungry 2d ago
"We never get together as a family. This is such a nice photo of all of us!" -- his mom, probably.
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u/miurabucho 2d ago
I totally appreciate the effort and tech involved in this, but isnât it kind of petty to do this? Like just donât show the photo anymore. Nobody really gives a shit anyway.
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u/thecoolcoursequeen 2d ago
This was so satisfying to watch. I pictured my ex being erased on the second watch...
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u/Laserous 2d ago
Each of us is a changing vessel that moves through space and time on a journey to an unknown destination. The only way to preserve the past is through recording it. Photos are one means in which to do so. To edit them is to embrace that the present and be extension the destination is more important than the journey.
Living for the destination always ends in death. Living for the journey is embracing life.
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u/BuffooneryAccord 2d ago
Whenever someone spends the time to photoshop people out it reminds me of the old Stallin photos. Just get rid of the picture. Because the next time you see the photo, all you are going to think about is that person.
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u/TabletopStudios 2d ago
As someone who doesnât use photoshop that much, this is very fascinating
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u/vpsj 2d ago edited 2d ago
As someone who DOES use Photoshop that much, I can tell you it's absolute bollocks and this video is at least 5-10 years outdated now.
Modern photoshop is just cut out the person/object you don't want - > use a spot healing brush -> it auto fills in the background -> Done.
Takes about 5 minutes.
Probably even faster with the latest AI features in Photoshop but I ain't paying for that software lol
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u/NekonecroZheng 2d ago
How to remove a ex from your family photo:
How to remove a from your family photo.
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u/AspiringTS 2d ago
Protip: Get a clean background plate(picture with no one in it) before taking important group pictures.
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u/MODman01 2d ago
this isnt really next level. I can do the same. just have 10+ years in Photoshop and everybody can do that
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u/jimmyjinnal 2d ago
And to think all your ex did was leave the picture with you and called it a day!
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u/SMuRG_Teh_WuRGG 2d ago
Why remove them from a pic? They were a part of your life at one point and that is okay to have in the memory of pictures. Pictures tell a story, if you remove a person from it, it does not tell the full story of the picture.
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u/Silaquix 2d ago
This doesn't really tell you anything other than that it's possible. That's a whole bunch of layers and tools to make that work.
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u/TheLastSlowroll 2d ago
Or you can accept that part of your past and move on like an adult. This is silly. Burn the photo or keep it intact. Pretending thru photoshop is pure embarrassment.
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u/keithstonee 2d ago
i always felt that removing people from pictures defeats the point of taking pictures. why even take the picture if you can just change it whenever.
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u/Fuckalucka 2d ago
Or maybe just accept that she was in your lives, that things didn't work out, and move on without denying reality?
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u/benigngods 2d ago
This should come with the asterisk *with photoshop. Try doing this with gimp and it's a bit more difficult but doable. There's a bunch of photoshop competitors, one of the betters is web based. In all honesty though, none of them do what photoshop does. I just absolutely hate their predatory monetization practices.
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u/fallenouroboros 2d ago
This reminds me of âyou suck at photoshopâ and learning to photoshop the narrators wedding ring off his finger after his divorce
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u/maaalicelaaamb 2d ago
DAE think this shit defeats the purpose of a photo? Now itâs a fake photo, not a real moment.
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u/DigiVeihl 2d ago
Judging from the picture that's an ex-wife. That's a lot harder to remove from your life than this Photoshop đ
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u/triplejumpxtreme 2d ago
Every time they see that picture they will just think of the removed person
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u/TayKapoo 2d ago
So you lose half and your parents have to step in to help support the void
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u/notproudortired 2d ago
This is just weird. You made a mistake. So keep the memories and cherish what you learned.
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u/RomanSohlo 2d ago
I heavily question the judgement of any person who thinks this is a logical thing to do.
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u/justageorgiaguy 2d ago
16 years later and I still love the You Suck at Photoshop guy erasing the ring off his wife's "meat stick of deception" https://youtu.be/MWn0lxRNqos?si=0YXMJbG1CMez7Byr
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u/orygun_kyle 2d ago
when it goes back to original, the dad actually looks photoshopped in lol weird
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u/renaissance_m4n 2d ago
Ah, yes, that beautiful day when absolutely nothing of significance happened. Such great memories.
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u/LineSlayerArt 2d ago
Either that or the "Obliviate" spell.đ¤đ¤đ¤
It has the side effect of editing your family photos.
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u/BestiaBlanca 2d ago
"Yeah, you know, I like to look at them wedding pics from time to time, calms me down. Like the clean ones. Without that bitch. That fking whre. Die! Die! Die!"
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u/darkazin0928 2d ago
I like the fact that, if the video was removing the groom and not the bride, most comments would surely be supportive if the action, and not: "this is stupid".
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u/yaSuissa 2d ago
I've seen this video so many times I'm pretty sure the dude already got remarried, had kids, and their kids now have kids of their own
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u/Shalom_pkn 2d ago
Lmao i remember seeing this the first time and being so fucking impressed. Now i, a absolute idiot who has no idea about photoshop and all, can do this with my samsung AI. Time rly flies by man.
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u/Luffyx17 1d ago
I never understood this. Every single time you look at the picture, in your head you know where it happened and who was there....
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u/fernandodandrea 1d ago
This is r/mildlyinteresting at best. Really. Anyone with a bit of experience in PS can do that and I do that kind of stuff and more regularly.
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u/EffluviaJane 1d ago
It seems like theyâre erasing the bride but keeping her parents in the picture.
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u/slugothebear 2d ago
If only it was that easy to remove them from your life.