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How do I remove an object or person? - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
How do I remove an object or person?
- Photoshop offers several tools to make object removal quite easy. In the old days, you'd use clone and stamp, but there's a newer tool for Content-Aware Fill that makes this much easier. What we can do, is select something in the scene that we don't want. For example, let's take our Quick Selection Tool, here and just draw over our subject, here. Our photo-bomber, in the background. There we go. My suggestion, is that you just expand that by a few pixels, so it's a little bit bigger. Now, edit, fill, gives you access to Content-Aware. And when you click OK, it will analyze the pixels and come up with new ones. In fact, you can run that a couple of times and each time you run Content-Aware, it will get more passes and more accurate. So, this makes it very easy, for example, to select some of these distracting objects, like, the lawn chairs. It will get rid of these beach chairs from the scene. And with each pass, it pulls them out. Now in this case, I'm going to reselect that. And…
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