Now I made a video a short while back when the remove tool was first introduced
into Photoshop, but since then, the more I use it, the more I'm impressed.
I mean, this is a seriously powerful
and clever tool.
So back in that earlier video, I showed what the remove tool
was, the settings you can alter and how to use it
to get the very best results out of this seemingly intelligent tool.
Now, I've always had a what would happen if approach
to when using Photoshop and doing my editing
and with the remove tool now becoming my go to for cleaning up of images
I've been doing a little bit of experimenting
lately just to see how it would deal
with a variety of very different cleanup tasks.
For example, this picture here that I photographed with my drone.
Let's just say that I want to remove the tree from the scene
and obviously the shadow that's being cast on the grass.
In the options bar at the top of the screen I have the remove tool set
so that it gets to work once I stop brushing over an area.
So I'll add a new blank layer so that I'm working non destructively
and then simply brush over the tree and the shadow.
And you can see
literally a second or two later it's done and it has done a really good job with it
even creating a new area of sky which blends in perfectly.
Now if I tried to do the same thing with the good old spot Healing brush,
the result will be good ish, but might need a little bit of work
doing afterwards.
So I'll add a new blank layer.
Make sure that sample all layers is ticked in the options bar
and then brush over the tree and the shadow.
And this is the result.
Now, on this dog portrait I took, the remove tool is great
for removing the collar.
Again, add a new blank layer and brush over the collar
with the great thing being that I don't have to be completely accurate,
I just need to brush over the collar
and a second or two later it's removed.
Now with all the hair to add back in, that's a lot harder than it looks.
But the remove tool does a great job.
I can only imagine how useful this tool is for my friend Kaylee Greer,
who specializes in dog portraits and is constantly removing leads.
On this surfer picture here I took with my iPhone, the remove tool
does a fantastic job of removing any trace of the surfer
by recreating the beach, sea, sky and the cliffs on the horizon line.
Really clever stuff.
Now, a couple of days ago I was doing a webinar and I got specifically asked
why I prefer to use the spot healing Brush instead of the remove tool.
And it kind of got me curious to try and see if I could push it even further.
So there was no doubt at all why I prefer it.
So in this picture here, my friend Anthony, that I took with my iPhone,
let's just say for whatever reason I want to remove this one leg
of the bench he's sitting on.
If I use the spot healing brush by adding a new blank layer
and then brushing over the leg,
you can see that
it does an okay job, but there's a bit of smudging
and some cleaning up I need to do maybe with the Clone Stamp tool.
But if I use the remove tool
again on a blank layer
and brush over the leg,
just look at the difference.
Absolutely perfect.
Nothing more to do.
It even knows there should be a gap between the wooden boards.
But check this out.
There's this window here just to the side of Anthony that's been damaged.
Now, this is definitely fixable using other tools in Photoshop
by maybe cloning glass from another undamaged window.
But I wanted to see if the remove tool could handle it all by itself.
First, though,
let's just see what the spot healing brush makes of it.
So a new blank layer, brush over it
and this is the result we get.
But now let's try the remove tool.
I'll add a new blank layer
and brush over the broken window.
When I stop brushing over it,
the remove tool takes a second or two and done.
I mean, check that out.
It just blows me away how good it is,
but also how quick it is.
There’s even some areas along the window frame that don't look so straight now.
But I just brush over them with the remove tool and it fixes them.
The bottom of the window here looks a bit messy, so I'll clean that up
just by brushing over it, and this side too.
So anyway,
like I said, I was just experimenting, and when I saw how the remove tool
handled that broken window, I just had to let you know
because it might be a tool that you're not taking full advantage of.
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