- [Julieanne] Photoshop has a number of tools
that make it easy to remove
small distracting elements in an image.
In the next few minutes, we're going to take
a look at the Spot Healing Brush, the Healing Brush
the Patch Tool, and the Clone Stamp Tool.
Now the Spot Healing Brush is going to automatically
select the sample spot for you.
So all you need to do is click
on the bad spot that you want to remove
and Photoshop will replace it with one of three options
either Content-Aware, Create Texture, or a Proximity Match.
And the Content-Aware technology I find
typically gives me the best results.
I'll use Command + one in order to zoom in
and then the Hand tool to reposition this.
So I'm looking in the lower left.
Now in order to do this in a more flexible manner,
I can retouch not on the background
but on a separate layer.
So in a Layers panel, I'll click on the new layer icon.
Let's go ahead and just rename that to retouch
so we know that's my retouching layer.
Then I'll want to make sure
with all of the tools that I'm using
that I have the option to either Sample All Layers
or some of them have it worded a little different.
You can sample the layer,
the current layer and below or all layers.
So with that toggled on,
I can have the retouch layer targeted
but Photoshop will sample from the background.
So now all I need to do is just position my cursor
over any of the distracting elements
that I want to remove.
And when I paint over them,
Photoshop is going to use that Content-Aware technology
in order to remove or replace
the area that I paint over with other information.
So you might be wondering
why every time I paint my brush size looks large,
but I'm actually painting a smaller area
and that's just because I'm using
a pressure sensitive tablet to do this work.
If I press harder, then I would get a larger brush there.
All right, so just a few more things to remove
and then we'll switch to the healing brush.
So when I select the regular Healing Brush Tool,
I don't have that Content-Aware technology anymore
because you are actually going to set
the point from which you're going to sample.
So you are kind of the Healing Brush technology.
And like the other tool,
we have the option to sample all of the layers,
and there's also an option for alignment.
So if you have an image that only has a little bit
of good source area,
you might want to uncheck the aligned option.
I'll go ahead and option click to set my source point here
in the water and then I'll paint over this area.
You can see now though without the Aligned option enabled,
when I move my cursor down
to maybe replace this rock right here,
Photoshop is keeping the source way up in the water.
So it's always going to return to that same source.
I'm going to undo that using Command + Z
and then enable the aligned option.
And now when I Option + click and select
or paint over this area to remove it,
and then I move to a different area,
Photoshop is going to keep the source
and the destination in alignments.
You can see that I've got the same distance
between my brush and those crosshairs
no matter where I move in the image area.
All right, the next tool that we should look at
is the Patch tool.
Again, we have the Content-Aware technology here
and the ability to Sample All Layers.
We also have the option to change the structure
or the texture as well as the color of the patched area
after we actually apply the patch,
which is a little unique.
Because most of the time in Photoshop,
these options you have to set before you use the tool.
So let's go ahead and patch this area.
I'm going to start with this ice in the water
and just drag around that area.
Then I can click inside
and just select the area that I want to patch from.
So I'm selecting the source here,
but it is also using the Content-Aware technology
in order to make up the information
that it needs to patch that area.
And as I mentioned,
you can change the structure and the color after the fact.
If I move the structure down,
you can see there was a pretty dramatic change there.
I can also use Command + H on Mac,
Ctrl + H on Windows to just hide the edges.
As I change these different options,
we can see it will recalculate the structure there
and I can also have it recalculate the color
but there's not a lot of color in the original.
So I'll go ahead and leave that set to zero.
Now don't forget that you've hidden those edges.
I'll use Command + H again in order to show them.
All right, we can move around and see
if there's anything else we want to patch.
I'll just select this area here and reposition it.
So it's kind of nice 'cause it gives me more control.
The other thing that you might want to pay attention
to when you're retouching things like this
is that you don't just get rid of the ice.
You're going to also need to get rid of any shadows.
Now I don't really like that patch job that it did there
so I'm going to select all of that again
and just scoot that over.
Okay, there we go.
I like that better.
Now you may have noticed that most of the pieces of ice
that I've been removing haven't been close
to the other areas of ice,
and that's because if I use the Patch tool
and I make a selection around this ice and try to remove it,
sometimes I get this little blending area along the edge.
So in order to avoid that,
I can switch to the Clone Stamp Tool.
I can just tap the S key in order to select it.
It also has the similar alignment options
as well as the ability to Sample All Layers.
Now I find the Clone Stamp Tool
to be an excellent way to remove elements
because it uses an exact duplicate of another area
and it's the tool that I prefer
when there's a lot of good source information.
Like in this case there's a lot of good sand
that I can choose from
but it's a little bit more difficult to use
because you need to watch for variances
in color and tone between the area
that you sample for and the area
that you're trying to get rid of.
So I'll set the source by holding
down the Option key on Mac, the Alt key on Windows.
I'll just select maybe the sandy area here
and then I can start painting
and I'm going to get an exact duplicate.
Hold down the Option key again
to set a different source point
and then just remove those little areas.
So you can see
when I come along the side of this ice right here,
there's no additional blending that's happening
so I'm not getting any artifacting or anything.
So I'll go ahead and remove that as well.
Again, I'm just holding down the option
or the Alt key whenever I want to set my source.
So I'm just looking for areas that would be similar
to where I'm laying this down.
All right, we'll come right up to there.
That was a little too far,
so I'll set a sample point
a little further below and remove that.
All right, I can scoot over here.
That should be fine for now.
We've got this big footprint though
so let's go ahead and I'll set my sample point
and then we can start removing all that area.
So one thing you do want to be careful
of when you're using the Clone Stamp Tool
is that you don't get any repeating patterns.
So I might want to go back and just get rid of
anything that's obviously repeating
because our eyes are so sensitive to texture
that we'll pick up those repeating elements
and we'll be able to tell,
for example, see the little repeating element here and here?
We'd be able to tell that that has been cloned.
All right, just a little bit more right up here
and I'll use Command + zero in order to zoom out
and we can toggle the visibility of this layer
in the Layers panel.
So there's before
and there's after we've done our retouching.
Now I want to take a moment to save the image.
I'll use the File menu, choose Save As.
I'm going to append this
by just adding an _01
and then saving it back to the Local Pixel Editing folder.
I'll save it as a layered PSD file, and then click Save.
So as we can see, Photoshop's Healing Brushes,
and Patch, and Clone Stamp Tool
can be very helpful when removing distracting elements
in our images.
Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill technology
is an excellent way to remove objects in an image
and fix areas that are distracting to the viewer.
In this image, I want to remove the iceberg
in the left as well as the upper right.
We can see on the Layers panel
that I'm on the retouch layer,
I'm going to target the Background layer instead.
Then with the Lasso Tool selected,
I'll drag a loose selection around that iceberg.
From the Edit menu, I'll choose Content-Aware Fill.
And on the left we can see our original
and on the right we have a preview
of what it would look like after it's been fixed.
So this green area right here
is the area that Photoshop is going to be using
as the source information
in order to fill the area that we have selected.
If we want to add to or subtract from that selection,
we can use the Brush tool.
By default, it's set to minus
so that would subtract an area,
Every time we paint with this brush,
Photoshop will then recalculate the preview area.
If I click on the plus icon,
then I can add additional areas to be used as the source.
All right, there are different sampling area options,
Auto, Regular and Custom.
I think Auto works really well
for the majority of instances,
but you can always select one of the other two.
We can also choose to Sample All Layers.
So if I was working over an area
that I had retouched on a separate layer,
I might want to include that Sample All Layers option.
All right, for now, I'll leave it off.
You can also make changes to the Sample Area Overlay.
You can change the color and you can hide it.
You can even invert it
so that it would show the excluded area instead.
All right, I think it's done a very good job.
So I'm going to apply that
and then I'm going to select the Lasso tool
while we're still in the Content-Aware Fill workspace
and use the Spacebar in order to see this area of my image.
And again, I'll just drag a loose selection
around this iceberg that I want to remove.
And Photoshop will show me a preview of it
over here on the right.
We can also use the slider here if we wanted to zoom in,
but I'm okay with the way it is.
There are additional options here
for color and rotation adaptation.
So if I thought the colors weren't matching,
I could change this either limiting the colors more
or telling Photoshop it can make
even additional changes to the color
in order to create a good blend.
We'll take a look at the other options in just a moment.
For now, I'm going to output this to a new layer
by clicking OK.
Now just one thing to note, we're seeing thumbnails
as if it has changed the entire layer
but I'm going to hide the background for a moment.
So Content-Aware Fill, every time you tap Apply,
when you tell it to output to a new layer,
it will create a new layer.
So here we have the fill in the left
and on this layer we have the fill on the right
and of course, this top layer
was the retouch layer that we created in the previous movie.
All right, let's move to this next image of the river.
I'm going to zoom in using Command + one
because sometimes it can be very helpful
to kind of assist Content-Aware Fill
before you go into the workspace.
And by that, I mean in this image,
these leaves are going right over this rock area
and they're very close down here as well.
So if I want to remove this branch,
I could help Content-Aware Fill
by using something like the Clone Stamp Tool
and creating sort of a border
in between the river area and the rock area.
So I'll hold down the Option key to set my sample point
and then I'm just going to use the Clone Stamp Tool
to just create kind of a difference here, right?
So I'm just creating a little bit of separation
between what is rock and what is a leaf.
All right, once I've done that,
I can tap the L key to get the Lasso tool
and then I'll just make a loose selection here.
Probably want to select that area there
to have Content-Aware Fill smooth it out for me.
But we can see now that there's more distinction
between the river area and the rock.
I'll choose Edit and then Content-Aware Fill.
And we can see that Photoshop's done a very good job.
Now I'm going to use the Spacebar to scoot this over.
There are a few additional areas here that I want to fill.
So let's apply the first one
and then let's go and select these leaves right here.
Again, I'll tap Apply
and move to this next leaf.
Tapping Apply again.
And then maybe one more time, right over here,
I might include this area as well.
And looking at the preview, I'll go ahead and tap Apply.
All right, let's apply all of those changes
and I'll use Command + D to deselect.
If I hold down the Option key,
I can click on the I icon for the background.
So that was before and that's after.
All right, one more example, this snail.
Here, I want to just drag a selection around this area
because I would like Photoshop to fix that
so that this line continues along this area.
All right, to do so,
I will choose Edit and then Content-Aware Fill.
But we can see in the preview area
that it doesn't look very good.
And that's because by default,
Content-Aware Fill doesn't rotate or scale
any of the source information.
But we can change that
by just setting the Rotation Adaptation
to a different level.
In this case, I'll choose Full.
And by enabling Photoshop to rotate the source information,
it's done a much better job at filling that.
I can also tell it that it can scale the content
in which case it will adjust it.
And again, I think it does a better job.
If I had something like a butterfly wing
across a horizontal axis,
I could also use the Mirror option.
But for now, let's just apply that.
Again, we can see before and after.
So as you can see,
the Content-Aware workspace is an excellent tool
for removing distracting elements
in complex areas.
When trying to remove larger elements in an image,
it might be best just to copy
a really large region of good information
in order to replace that unwanted content.
So in this image, I think the photograph
is really all about the vertical and horizontal lines.
So this area over here is quite distracting to me.
So I'm going to select the Lasso tool
and then just drag a large loose selection
around this iceberg right here.
And I'm going to copy this area to its own layer
using the keyboard shortcut Command + J
or we can use Layer, and then New,
and then Layer Via Copy.
Now I'll select the Move tool by tapping the V key
and just reposition that copy
over the area that I need it to replace.
Now in order to hide all of this information,
on the Layers panel,
I'm going to hold down the Option key on Mac,
Alt key on Windows
and click on the add layer mask icon.
That will add a layer mask that is filled with black
hiding all of the information on that layer.
Then we'll go ahead and zoom in,
and I'm going to switch to the Brush tool
by tapping the B key.
I'll just right click to make sure
that I have reset the tool,
and then get a little bit larger of a brush.
I'll want to make sure that I'm painting with white
at 100% opacity.
And now I can just start painting in the mask.
And I'm going to be revealing the content on that layer.
So we're going to see the copy
of the iceberg wherever I paint.
So I might want to be a little bit careful down here
at the bottom.
I don't want to get rid of the water line there.
Then I'll come back over here.
Now we might want to look at the mask.
I can hold on the Option key on Mac
or the Alt key on Windows to view that
to just make sure that we fill in
this entire area right here.
All right, when we're finished
we'll view the contents of a layer again.
And then in order to scale down the content.
Because this iceberg would be further away,
I'm going to unlink the layer from the mask
by clicking on the link icon.
I'll target the photograph,
and then I'm going to use the Edit menu
to choose Transform and then Scale.
Now we can scale down the contents of the layer.
In this case, the iceberg without adjusting the mask.
I'll go ahead and zoom out a little bit
so we can see what this looks like
in relationship to the entire image.
If I wanted to flip this,
I could also right click within the transformation handles
and choose to flip this horizontally.
Because the light is so flat in this image,
I'm not that worried about the shadows
being in the opposite direction.
But I can see some repeating patterns
so I might not want to scale it that small.
I'll go ahead and make it a little bit larger.
Bring it over to the right and then tap Enter
or Return in order to apply it.
All right, let's zoom back in there.
I just need to make sure
I don't need to adjust my mask anymore.
I think it could use a little bit of softening on the edge.
So I'll target it in the Layers panel
and just increase the feather amount.
All right, I'll relink the layer with the mask.
And there you are.
An easy way to replace large elements in an image.
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