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studio backdrop in Photoshop
I feel like you guys in the last video saw a little
bit of my personality come out and this is how I get
especially when it's sunny it is a beautiful day today but my life is a bit
sad because we are locked down my whole season is canceled and my free time got
slightly bigger so I'm gonna carry on making these videos you stick what you
want to see in the comments below in this video what we're going to do is
we're going to look at a picture that I took of a dog in Studio picture will be
on the screen now I'm gonna have already done all of my basic edits in Lightroom
if you're wondering how to edit a studio photo in Lightroom let me know and I'll
do a tutorial to cover off this tutorial we're gonna switch over to the Mac I'm
gonna record the screen and you are not going to see my face so let's go and do
that right now this is the image that we're going to be working on today this
is Alfie so I've got this picture we've done our Lightroom base edits and then
we've got this situation and this situation along with this situation all
of this stuff what we're going to be looking at today is how to extend the
backdrop to obliterate this which lets you take pictures like this in smaller
spaces so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to do a super quick
cleanup off the backdrop by using a Spot Healing tool to clean it up if you don't
know what I'm talking about look to the link at the top of the
screen
so once I've done that I'm gonna go ahead grab my rectangular marquee tool
that lives over here if you can't see it right click pick the rectangular marquee
tool or press M what you want to do is you want to click and drag from right at
the top to right at the bottom and you want to go right to the edge of your
subject like so then what we're gonna do is we're going to go into edit and
choose the content aware scale click on that if you are on a new version of the CC
you're going to want to be holding down the shift key whilst you pull which
will just pull like this if you didn't do that you would be pulling like this
if your screen does this when you press the shift key don't press the shift key
click and drag all the way to the end of the screen and double click just like
that you've got a full backdrop now at this side we've got a little bit more
problems to work with because we have a foot over it and shadow what we're
going to do is we're going to do this in little baby steps and first of all I'm
going to just remove the leg it doesn't have to be pretty doesn't have to be
perfect the aim is to just remove the general leg then same thing you want to
be clicking like that but oh look you've only got this big so what we're going to
do is we're going to go like this to the edge of the dog and then edit content
aware scale hold shift if your computer does that and click and drag again
doesn't need to be pretty at this stage what we're doing is we're just scaling
up areas of the image that we can later use when you're in a situation where
you've just got this little gap things start to get a bit tricky so what we're
going to do is we're going to rectangular marquee off a whole load of
this space at this side then what we're going to do is we're going to do ctrl or
command + C which basically is copy and then ctrl or command + V which is paste
then what we're going to do is we're going to do a ctrl or command + T which
is transform gonna right click and flip horizontal then we're going to
drag our new background bit over this area of the image doesn't have to be
super precise at the moment and double click to lock that in then we're going
to mask if you don't know how to mask check out my other video and then we're
gonna grab the brush tool nice and big nice and soft and we're gonna start to
on a opposite brush so black at a hundred percent opacity we're gonna
start to erase the area that our subject is sat in like so and just like
that you've filled it in you can go ahead fine tune around the area of your
subject once you're happy right click on the layer and do merge down now what we
can also do is just drop back this area where it's over exposed where it's blown
so I'm gonna go on my burn tool I'm gonna keep it on the highlights for now just
your a few dots it's looking green we will assess and then mid-tones to just drop
that off like so and then what I'm going to do then when you use the color from
over here with the eyedropper tool and then use a brush big brush on about 10
to 20 percent I'm gonna use 20% and just gonna add that color down here it's a
bit flat going to use a brighter version of this yellow and just dot that
in
I'm going to show you before and after now if you aren't a perfectionist you
could just stop right there but I am a perfectionist so I'm gonna be using my
clone stamp tool nice and big I'm going to pick an area doesn't matter where
that area is as long as it is not near an edge - cannot be near an edge - and then
a little lower opacity we're at 30% here I'm just gonna start doing this over the
curve crease once you're happy with that we're going to go in and fine-tune areas
of the creases
as I always say anywhere in the image that is the brightest part like right
here that's going to draw your eye so we need to drop that down a touch burn tool
on highlights very low exposure on this and just dot don't overdo it just dot
Just going to go right in we're at 300% here and I'm just gonna clean up his
face and then a levels check as always command or control + L you want to be
holding down the Alt key and bring in that in anywhere that's gone black we've
lost the blacks I'm gonna keep it there and then the highlights
anywhere that is white is where we've lost to highlights so if I where to
let go that would look like this which is pretty bad so we're just gonna go
ahead and stop about there - you can barely tell but you can still tell then fine tune my
color I'm gonna go ahead into yellows and then move the hue beautiful and
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