hey guys what's up and today I'm going
to be showing you how to easily remove
unwanted objects using a few different
methods a few different retouching tools
within Photoshop so let's jump right in
okay so now that we have our image in
Photoshop the first thing we're going to
do is to duplicate the layer you can do
this on a Mac by pressing command J or
you can go onto the layer right click
duplicate layer and they'll have the
same effect so let's say we want to
remove this brown horse in the picture
it's a fairly large part of the image so
I'm gonna be using the content-aware
fill tool so what I'm gonna do is select
this horse using any of the selection
tools so I'm going to show you two ways
that we can make the selection I'm going
to use a lasso tool first and because
I'm a way of how content-aware fill
works I'm going to be selecting an area
outside of the horse and giving it a
little buffer if you like so I'm not
going and really close because using the
other method I'm still going to have to
expand this selection so I've done a
rough selection around the horse that's
the object that I want to remove so now
I'm going to ask Photoshop to fill the
area within that selection edit content
aware fill and this is gonna bring up
our content aware fill window so now we
have a preview section over here we can
see in real time any effects that takes
place so what I'm gonna do is let
Photoshop do the work for me so I'm
gonna hit auto here and we can see that
it's done a calculation based on the
surrounding areas and it's done a pretty
good job on here so we can see over here
as well the green areas is the
information that it's used to sample and
to fill this area from where the horse
was. Okay like I said I'm going to show
you two years of selecting this so I'm
gonna cancel all of this and I'm gonna
hit deselect so I'm gonna go to select
deselect or hit command D on a Mac. okay
so another way that we can make a
selection is come up here to the
selection tools grab the object
selection tool and just draw around the
object which is the horse in this case
and Photoshop will do its magic and
select the horse as best as it can okay so
now that we made this selection we're
gonna go back up to the Edit content
aware fill and we're gonna bring up this
window again so what I'm gonna do here
is click on Auto so it's gonna try to
fill that selection that we've made and
we can see it's not done a very good job
we still have the outline of the horse
right here and it's not a very good job
we can do better than that so if we come
over here to this selection we can see
that it's a very tight selection so what
we want to do is to expand that
selection gonna come up here hit the
lasso tool if it's not yet selected and
then we have an expand and contract so
this is gonna expand the selection which
is what we want to do and by how many
pixels now the maximum that we can do at
any one time is 10 pixels so we can go
from 1 through to 10 on here but the
cool thing about this is if we hit the
expand button once we can see that the
selection has grown a little bit around
here and we can also see in the preview
window that is gotten a little bit
better we hit the expand button a
second time we see the selection grow
again and we can see the result is a lot
better within the preview window now at
this point if we aren't too happy with
the selection that is automatically
generating then we can go to the custom
and what we can do if we hit the
sampling brush tool is we can select and
you have the control over the size of the
brush by the way so we can increase or
decrease the size of the brush and we
can control the size of this by hitting
the square brackets on your keyboard to
increase or decrease the size so what
we're going to do is manually select the
sampling area so we're telling Photoshop
this is the area that I want you to
sample and you're gonna use that
information to then fill in the
selection that we have made so this
green bit is the bit that I'm sampling
and that's where I want it to choose from
say for example we had a more complex
image where it was a lot more busier
than here and then this might work
better than the auto selection tool okay
so if we look in the preview window we
can see again it's done a really good
job at filling in that selection
now it's done a really good job and it's
even as good as the auto selection
they're about on par so what I'm gonna
do now is hit apply to accept that and
I'm gonna click okay I'm gonna then
deselect this by pressing command D or
going to select and deselect and what
I'll do for now is merge these two
layers so you select both of these
layers and you merge layers so we have
one layer to work with now if you come
back across a we can see some issues
here let me just zoom in a little bit we
can see some issues where the fill
didn't work 100% and we're gonna fix
that so we're gonna fix that by using a
couple other tools and I'm just going to
show you a few of the available options
and one of my favorite tools is the
patch tool so what I'm gonna do with
this patch tool I'm going to zoom back
out a little bit what I'm gonna do with
this patch tool is make this selection
right here so again this is not a tight
selection and I'm leaving space outside
to help the software to do its job and
I'm gonna just drag this on to an area
that looks similar I release it and
there we go
it's done a pretty good job of
retouching that area if we look here as
well we can use the same thing use the
same tool drag it to an area that looks
similar and away we go okay so the next
tool that we're going to be using is the
Healing Brush tool now The Healing Brush
tool requires you to take a sample of
one area of an image and paint it onto
the other area so I'm going to be
sampling this area right here and you
hold down option and click in the area
you want to sample and then now you if
you move this along you can see that
sample is moving with the brush so we're
just going to do is paint over this area
and we've sorted that bit out again we
have a little patch right here and wecan
Sample that area and easily get rid
of this all right
so lets have another look at this image and
see what else we can do and we can see
we still have some issues down here so
I'm gonna use the Healing Brush tool
again gonna sample is area and I'm just
gonna paint that sample and what you
should do is keep sampling as you go and
keep changing the sample area so that
you don't start creating noticeable
pattern
for the other tool that we want to talk
about quickly is the Spot Healing Brush
tool so we have these lines right here
on the face of the horse and I'd want to
get rid of these lines so that is
perfect for stuff like this
just make the brush size a little bit
wider than the line that you're trying
to take out and we're gonna just follow
the line alone and release and there we
go the line is gone
I'm gonna do the same for this one take
this spot away as well now that's
looking a lot better, there's a couple
more things before we leave here and
these rocks just in the corner here
they're very distracting to the eyes I'm
gonna remove them like I say the patch
tool is one of my favorite tools that I
use I'm gonna go over there with a patch
tool selection and I'm gonna just trying
this across now as you can see we have a
preview and you know you can sort of
cage where we can put this and then you
can get a feel after you've done it a
few times you'll get a feel as to where
the best area is to use to clone this so
there we have it we've removed a horse
from the image and we've tidied up a
couple of bits areas on there as well so
sometimes you'll find that you'll have
to use more than one of these tools in
any given situation to reach the desired
result that you want but that is it for
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