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Removing a person and finishing a photograph

Removing a person and finishing a photograph

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Removing a person and finishing a photograph

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're gonna build upon the concept which we talked about in the previous movie, but just get a little bit more advanced. Sometimes when you're shooting, you just can't control everything, like if you're shooting in a location like this, where there's a bystander. And what I wanna do is remove that person and then also work on the color and tone and finish off this photograph. All right, well, let's begin by creating a new layer, so click on the new layer icon, and I'll call this one R1, for Retouch One. And what you often wanna do is look at the image, and kind of say, "Are there any repeating patterns that I might be able to use?" And here we have everything in focus, and everything's sharp, so we need to be careful. We need to make sure thing are lined up. So grab the Clone Stamp tool, press the S key, and I make the brush bigger by pressing the Right Bracket key here, then I'll go ahead and Option or Alt + Click on a source area. I'm gonna sample this…

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