To remove anything from a photo in Photoshop,
drag over the object with this new AI-powered tool,
and Photoshop will magically remove it from your photo.
It will even work on the guy walking in the background.
And if you think the purse is distracting,
then you can use this tool to remove it as well.
This tool is definitely the future of Photoshop.
My name is Jesus Ramírez, and in this video, I will show you all you
need to know about the brand new and incredible Remove Tool in Photoshop.
Full disclosure,
I was part of the Advisory team who worked with Adobe on the Remove Tool.
I've been using it for about five months
now and I've had time to develop a few techniques I will share with you today.
Make sure you watch to the end to learn all about this incredible tool.
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First of all,
at the time of this recording, the Remove Tool is only found
in the Photoshop beta, which you can access through the Creative Cloud app.
From the Photoshop beta,
you will find the Remove Tool nested under the Spot Healing Brush Tool.
If you do not, click on the three-dot icon or the Banana Tool, in my case,
and from the Edit toolbar dialog, reset the toolbar to default.
Once you have the Remove Tool active, enable the Sample All Layers check box
and create a new layer to work non-destructively.
This allows you to come back and edit the original if need be.
I'll drag over the water bottle and Photoshop will magically remove it.
Your first question after watching this might be, what's the difference between
this and the Spot Healing Brush tool or the Content-Aware Fill?
Aren't they all the same?
The answer is "No."
Content-Aware technology works by sampling surrounding pixels
to blend and fill the area.
It does a great job in consistent backgrounds.
But the Remove Tool uses machine learning technology.
It's designed to handle more challenging tasks.
It better handles complex backgrounds and edges and preserves the image's depth.
Here's the same water bottle removal but using the Content-Aware Fill.
Notice that even in this simple example,
it had trouble with the depth of field of the image.
And the spot healing brush though didn't do much better.
It also had issues with the blurry
backgroundand it created blurry edges over the water bottle.
From all my testing,
the Remove Tool performs better than the older tools in Photoshop.
It's not perfect and it certainly could be improved, but I think it's the best
removal tool currently available in Photoshop.
From the Options bar, you'll see the Remove After Each Stroke option.
This is one feature I was particularly
pushing for during the Advisory calls with Adobe.
When disabled, the Remove Tool will only
apply the adjustments when you commit the changes.
For example, to remove the poll in this
photo, you can start by removing the light.
Now uncheck the Remove After Each Stroke box.
Reduce your brush size.
Make it a bit larger than the poll.
By the way, you can resize your brush
by tapping on the keyboard's left and right bracket keys.
Those are the keys to the right of the letter P in North American keyboards.
Then click on top of the poll, hold shift and click again at the bottom
and Photoshop will draw a straight line between the two points.
Now you can click on the check mark to commit the changes.
The poll is gone.
Then you can check the box again and continue fixing any minor imperfections.
One of my favorite things about the Remove Tool is how it treats edges.
If you wanted to remove the flower pot
from this table, all you need to do is paint over it.
Notice how I'm not being very precise?
The results are not perfect,
but you can simply paint over any imperfection like the top part
of the pillow here and another little dot here in the bottom.
It didn't do that good of a job on the edge, but if you paint over it
again, Photoshop will reconstruct the edge and it looks fantastic.
I think the real power of the Remove tool is how well it handles edges.
Now I'll try removing the basket. I'll paint over it.
I don't have to be very precise and I'll make sure to get the reflections.
And again, Photoshop does a great job.
It's truly remarkable.
Compare the results with the content of our fill.
I think there's no contest here.
The Remove Tool does a much better job.
I've used the Remove Tool on some professional projects.
I work as a finisher in the Hollywood industry creating film and TV posters.
Unfortunately, the unedited files I work on professionally are under NDA,
but I can share similar images and walk you through how I've used the Remove Tool.
For example, if you're working on a period piece where you can't have modern air
conditioning units, you could use the Remove Tool to simply get rid of them.
In images like this one, I find that the Remove Tool works better
when I click once or make short strokes rather than long ones.
Just make sure the brush tip is not too big.
Also, keep in mind that if the Remove Tool doesn't give you the results that you
want, simply paint over the object again until you get something you're happy with.
Again, the results are just incredible and we didn't really do much work.
Doing the same thing with the spot healing brush tool wouldn't work at all.
Look at the difference.
The content of our fill doesn't do much better.
I've also worked on a few retouching projectsthere the art director wanted
to remove all distracting elements from the photo.
In a photo like this one,
I will probably have to remove the store name, the highlights near her head,
the black poles going along the side of the street.
For that, I'll disable
the Remove After Each Stroke box, resize the brush,
make it a bit larger than the pole, click on top, hold shift,
click on the bottom, and fill in the bottom part.
Then press the Enter key on Windows as
a return key on the Mac to commit the changes,
and repeat this process a few more times to get all the black poles on this image.
There's quite a few of them, but they're very easy to remove as you can see.
Once I'm done, this is the result.
And also look at the distracting objects by her legs.
Look at how the Remove Tool respects the edges on her body.
I can easily remove the distracting bright
white step and the black pole near her legs.
I don't have to be precise, Photoshop automatically finds the edges.
This technology is just incredible.
What do you think?
Let me know down in the comments.
I've also used this tool for retouching jobs.
Look at how well it works with removing blemishes.
The Remove Tool does a great job
in keeping the original texture.
Much better than the Spot Healing brush tool.
This is a result after spending some time removing all the blemishes.
No other adjustments were made.
This is all the Remove Tool.
You might think that techniques like
frequency separation might give you better results, and they would.
But they require so much more time and effort, the Remove Tool might be
the better option for projects with fast turnarounds or limited budgets.
The Remove Tool also works great for removing flyaway hair.
If you have a pressure-sensitive tablet,
you can click on this button from the options bar.
It adjusts the brush size based on how hard you push down as you paint.
Then you can simply paint away fly away
hairs from any portrait, including portraits with difficult backgrounds.
This is my final result after spending some time working on the fly away hairs.
The edges do need a little bit of work,
but the Remove Tool did great in this case.
I worked on a project where I had
to remove an object similar to the scan from a person's hand,
and much like this image, the Remove tool was having issues with it.
Even when I unchecked the Remove after each stroke box and meticulously painted
over the can and between the fingers, the Remove Tool did not give me good results.
If you come across a photo like this,
the solution I came up with was to remove the entire hand from the image.
Do it all in a separate layer,
then hold Alt on Windows or option on the Mac
as you click the Layer Mask icon
to create a black mask that will hide the layer.
Then with the Brush Tool and white as your foreground color,
you can paint over the mask to reveal the generated pixels from the Remove Tool.
And this is where you can spend time
painting along the edges and in between the fingers.
This is my result after finishing the mask.
And now, paint in, clone or composite any missing elements.
Another excellent use for the Remove Tool
is to remove people from your vacation photos.
Here's a photo of the Louve Museum
in Paris, and look at how easy people disappear.
All I'm doing is simply dragging over them with the Remove Tool.
Is this tool perfect? Absolutely not.
You can probably see some imperfections in this photo, but it gets you almost all
the way to the finish line with very little effort.
My friend, Meritheth Stolzner,
Photoshop product manager at Adobe, has a great post on the Adobe forums
announcing this tool and asking for feedback.
Feel free to go there and let her know your thoughts.
But one of the things she mentions is that the Remove Tool is meant to reduce or
eliminate the cleanup after the fill, and you should also not need to clean up
by switching to another tool such as the clone stamp.
This is a great goal and I think the Remove Tool will eventually get there.
But in my testing,
I found it easier and faster to fix minor issues with other tools.
Let me give you an example and show you
my workflow to remove objects from complex backgrounds.
To remove the hand from this image,
it's a good idea to separate the job into several parts.
First, use a small brush tip to paint away the brush it's holding.
Photoshop does a fantastic job.
Notice how well it matched the pattern.
Then you can increase your brush size
and continue painting the rest of the hand away.
Again, Photoshop does an incredible job
on the inner parts, but the edges are a problem.
Now you can try painting over the edges
several times until you get something that works.
Try it a few times.
Notice that I don't get good results with a small brush.
But when I increase my brush size and get
more of the gold spheres, Photoshop gives me results I can work with.
You probably will never get a perfect
match with the Remove Tool, but with this result,
you can duplicate the background by pressing CTRL J,
then merge the two by selecting both layers and pressing CTRL E.
Now you can go into Filter and Liquify.
From here, you can use the For Warp Tool to fix the edges.
I think that in situations like this,
using a secondary tool will give you faster and better results.
And in this image,
you could use the Remove Tool to remove the child jumping into the pool.
But as you will see, it's not perfect.
There are issues on the ground and on the fence.
For something like this, the clone tool will get you better and faster results.
Start by enabling the clone stamp tool, then hold Alt and click to sample
from the other pole and paint the pole back in on the right side.
The corner of the pool is also an issue,
and as you can see, the remove tool is struggling with this part.
So it's probably easier to just select the clone stamp tool,
sample from a similar part of the pool, and then paint over the edge.
And we'll use the shadow to hide the seams of the clone stamp tool.
Then you can go back into the Remove tool and hide any other imperfections.
This is the final result.
I tried removing the fence from this photo
and the Remove Tool in Photoshop did an incredible job.
The key here was to reduce the brush size and precisely paint over the fence when I
was near her eyes and other features with detail.
I cannot stress this enough, the Remove Tool is not perfect so
sometimes you will have to go over an area again to get the results you want.
This is my result that we're spending some time working on this photo.
Again, it's truly incredible what you can do with the Remove Tool.
And another cool thing you can do is remove eyebrows.
Or if you wanted to, the Remove Tool can even remove eyes.
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