From the course: Photo Restoration: Fixing Water Damage

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Initial clean up

Initial clean up - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photo Restoration: Fixing Water Damage

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Initial clean up

- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to clean up our restoration evidence, tidy the image, and make our final restore. Make sure you've got 06_01 open, go to our Layers palette, and we're going to tidy up our layers to start with. This last working layer here was our fence panel, so let's call that Fence 2. And to clean up the areas we missed on the left side of the image, we've got some trouser here, and a bit of cloth here, and a tiny bit between the legs there. Let's check our Grass, see if we can use that to mask them out. Oh, the Grass texture stops there. It's also not available to cover that area. So the thing we need to do here is to put a new layer above the uppermost layer and call it Tidy. And using our Grass and our Clone Tool set to Normal and on a nice soft brush, 100%, and we can take a sample from our Grass by holding the alt or opt key down, taking a sample, going to our Tidy layer, and then cloning into and onto that layer above everything else. And then back…

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