Repairing adhesive tape damage on a color photo

Repairing tape damage in a color photo can present different challenges…because of the colors.…Let's take a look at this image of a car.…We need to get rid of this very obvious, very yellow piece of tape right through…the main part of the image, which is the car.…The first thing you'll want to do is duplicate your background layer using…Ctrl+J on a PC, Command+J on a Mac.…Go over to your toolbar and select your Polygonal Lasso tool.…Start at the top of one side of the tape and click and bring it down to select…the whole piece of tape.…

Get as close as you can to the edges.…It's okay if you go a little over; just get as close as you can. And now we want…to put it on its own layer using Ctrl+J or Command+J. We are going to reselect…that selection that we just put on its own layer by holding down Ctrl, or…Command, putting your cursor over the thumbnail itself, and clicking.…Now we are going over to the toolbar again and selecting the Eyedropper tool,…and we're going to select a color in the tape and then use Alt+Backspace, or…