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today we are gonna go through five ways to remove stuff in photoshop
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what we're going to be doing is we're going to be going through five ways to remove things in
photoshop we're using my most used tools like everything in photoshop there's about 4,000 ways
to do everything i don't know if there is actually 4,000 but there can't be much less than 4,000
um so we're just going to go through the five that i feel you guys will probably use the most
and i've just picked this picture of bryt to work on because i basically think we can
get away with using all five in one shot usually i would definitely be using three of these in every
single photo so first things first guys when you're over in photoshop
duplicate your background layer duplicate your background layer by pressing command j
anytime in this video where i say command and you work on a windows just do control instead
works the same so basically what this does is it gives you a background layer which is kind of
the safe layer and then a layer that we're going to be doing all of our changes on just in case we
need that background layer in the future so i would recommend doing this personally okay so
tool number one tool number one that we're going to go through today is the content aware fill and
somebody on a youtube comment which i will pop on the screen it taught me that there was a shortcut
for this which has just basically enriched my life so you can use any of your selection methods your
marquees or your lassos to select an area of the screen so you can use a rectangular marquee tool
you can go ahead and use a polygonal lasso tool to draw around objects or you can in like we're going
to do in this case use the lasso tool we're not going to use the lasso tool we're going to use
a polygonal lasso tool and we're going to just stay outside of the object that we're wanting to remove
like this and remember there's a reflection there we're going to go ahead and take out all of that
so double click to join them up and when you've done that all you need to do
is do shift backspace and then content aware fill comes up click okay and photoshop will
try and recreate that area i mean it didn't do a totally horrific job actually i sound surprised
i shouldn't be surprised by photoshop these days what i then do is go on to my normal marquee tool
by pressing m and then clicking once and that will deselect those pixels so just like that guys we've
removed the human from the shot now you guys might be saying well that's not a very good fill
uh actually it's not bad but we're gonna go ahead and clean up so uh one of my favorite ways to
clean up basically is using tool number two which is the healing brush tool the healing brush tool
is not given enough credit in my opinion it works like a brush so you change the size of it and it
works basically as an amalgamation of the clone stamp tool the spot healing brush tool and the
patch tool so to use this tool basically you need to select a source by holding down option on your
keyboard if you're working on a windows you're going to want to be holding down alt then we click
to select our source and with the source selected we can then go ahead and fill in some pixels
so what that's doing basically is it's merging colors it's merging patterns and it's kind of
doing all of them together to make a nice finish so that's basically given us this here which
follows along this line on the floor but what would you say we do for this so these two have
come from here and this has come from here and that's come from there and it all just doesn't
look right realistically we need to correct this area so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
pull a source from here which is the same focal plane and i'm just going to dust that in there
that's replaced this dot that was there now we need to take care of this so i'm
gonna pull from here which is a similar focal plane and i'm just gonna dust up there then
yes you guessed it i'm gonna probably pull from here and then just over that bit which
would just soften everything out and now that floor area doesn't look totally ridiculous
in fact it looks like it should be there we could clone from here with our healing brush tool
and just dust that line on out which then makes it look absolutely like it's supposed to be there
and then there is just the original distraction which was in beforehand
of this and to get rid of that probably probably i would just healing brush tool it out
just like that straight forward you could if you wanted to join up those two lines together which
then would make it look a little bit more like it was supposed to be there but you could just spend
hours doing this and honestly guys there's just no point no one's gonna look at pixel level at
how neat your clone lines are but if you wanted to you could do nice precise lines because it would
make you feel better that's fine still distracted still distracted there we go so we've now done the
left hand side of the image it's done a pretty good job there's some bits that i might want to
just go ahead and soften off in there um but like i said guys no one is going to go into pixel level
so left hand side of the image i'm now happy with let's look at little b over here so we've
got a lead there is a lead here and there is also a collar here and there's dust and stuff all over
her face so sticking with the tools that we've already used let's go ahead and do a healing
brush all the way down so let's pick a source that is on the diagonal so therefore we can start here
and go up and then down and that will repair all the lines for us and then now we are at little
b's ear how do we do this though how do we do that well let's go to the next tool let's go to
the clone stamp tool so with the clone stamp tool what you can do is you can select a source point
and then you can go ahead and just take a carbon copy of the pixels that are at that source point
so this is pulling pixels from here and it's basically copying them as a carbon copy it doesn't
always work perfectly however however a fun little tip is that you can pick a source point so this is
the top of an ear so we can pick a source point of the top of an ear right and we could put that
there and that would look wrong but if we go to window go to clone source and then press this
little arrow here that flips our clone can you see that so it flips it so we can line that up
and then we've replaced the ear and you could do the side of the head if you wanted to
that's fine and what that's done is that's given you a carbon copy of this side of the head which
just basically means you don't have to go in and clone super closely so what we can then
do is go back to our healing brush tool take your source maybe here let's take that up there
and then that looks like a normal bit of wall so can you see
so some little bits that i want to clean up here it doesn't have to be super precise
just a bit softer nobody is going to know that a lead was taken out so let's clean up some dust on
her face so for this for me definitely go ahead and use the spot healing tool
spot healing brush tool sorry and you just want to draw little straight lines little
straight lines work better than dabs and you just keep doing a little straight lines to clean up
all of the dust and all of the muck and if you've got a dog with a black face you're
going to be doing this for a little bit longer than i'm going to be doing this
because honestly guys the dust is unreal so spot healing brush just cleaned up the face
perfect and let's say we've got these objects over here i'm going to go ahead and use a
new tool patch tool now the patch tool draws a circle and then you can click drag and release
and it will pull the texture and the patterns from that area so what this does is it's kind of
great at removing distractions it can leave harsh edges so i would definitely suggest putting the
diffusion up to seven and then you can just go around ringing objects and replacing make sure
you don't use this tool on the edge of an image because it doesn't usually do a pretty good job of
making straight lines but for larger distractions it is brilliant so that's the patch tool
remember it pulls textures this little leaf is fine so then the last thing really to remove
is going to be this which is the collar so collar removal and lead removal is something that i've
covered in a previous tutorials but for this one i would probably do a mixture of the clone
stamp tool to just get us our lines remember to uncheck that flip i don't want to leave that
on i would need to rotate this a little bit so you can rotate that in your clone source
keep rotating there we go and that gives us a much better source point i went too far
let's do that again and that gives you a much better source there same on the other side
let's rotate the other way a little bit a little bit more and a little bit more
that's good so i'm super close to these red bits of coat so i have to be a little bit careful
but that is pretty good and then you can go in a little bit smaller to fine tune and then
this bit here this bit i'm probably gonna pull the ear and i'm gonna need to rotate a bit more
and that will fill that section like so and then i can just go ahead and actually use the healing
brush tool to fill in the central pattern there's something that resembles a little bit more like a
kind of has like a little bit more to it in terms of the texture and the colors there
and then we just touch up so i like touching up with the healing brush tool because it doesn't do
kind of solid lines it keeps things a little bit more textured
has a little bit more going through it so therefore it looks more realistic
so this bit of coat here i lost because i did a boo-boo so what we can do because
we've got this background layer is we can pop a mask onto that layer grab a brush
with a black brush because it's a white mask
you can then go ahead and bring back soften that brush off a little bit
go ahead and bring back the original coat that was under there and blend those two in
and just like that we've removed the distractions so those are my
five main tools to remove distractions so we've got the patch tool the spot healing
brush tool the healing brush tool the clone stamp tool and content aware fill
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