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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Quintin bachelor, and this is my Adobe
Photoshop class. In this class, I'm going to show you three different tools in Photoshop that you can use to remove any subject in any photo. Photoshop can be a pretty overwhelming and
intimidating software. But in this class we
are going to take it in very small bytes. And I'm just going to show you the three best tools and methods that you can
use to remove things. We even go over how to import a photo because I
think anyone should have the freedom to remove
that pesky person in the background of
their landscape or anything that's out of place. And sometimes when that happens, you really want the photo to
look the way you want it to, but it's not quite worth to pay someone to remove one
thing in one photo. So here in this class, you can learn how easy it is and just how quickly
you can do it yourself. Photoshop isn't just
for professionals and photographers who spent months and years mastering
the software. In this class, I'm
going to show you that Photoshop for anybody. The three tools we're
gonna be going over in this class are the
spot healing tool, the clone stamp tool, and the Lasso tool. These three tools
are gonna be all you need to remove at
something in your photo, but they all do it
differently and serve a purpose depending on what
your photo looks like. But if you're ready to
figure out how to use them, I'll see you in the next lesson.
2. Importing: Alright, now quickly
before we move on, I want to show you how to
import a photo into Photoshop. Now, like I said, anyone should be able to use Photoshop and remove something. So I wanted to
quickly go over this and make sure there
was no moodiness and no cloudiness
when it came to uploading a project
into Photoshop. Now if you're already
somewhat familiar with Photoshop and
you've used it before, you'll probably already
know how to do this. But for those of you
who don't want to quickly show you how
to import something. If you've never used
Photoshop before, when you open it up, you're
gonna be greeted with this. Welcome to Photoshop. And then down below,
you're going to have the option to drag and drop a photo or any file
in to Photoshop. So it's pretty straightforward, but there are a few different
things that you can do. You go ahead and come over
to New File and click this. You can go ahead and
create a bunch of different custom dimensions and other things for your
photo when importing it, I usually don't get that nitty-gritty with it and
get into this stuff. I just import the
raw photo how it is. But if you'd like,
you can go in here and mess around with this stuff. But if we come
further down here, you're going to see this
other tab here that says your files when you
download Photoshop, photoshop is going to give you a folder in your Documents tab. And this folder is going to be all the things that
are in your Photoshop. So anything you put in that
folder on your computer under documents are going to show up when you hit your
file tab right here. So if I click it, it's
telling me I have no iCloud documents because I don't have anything
in it right now, but feel free to utilize
this if it fits your needs. So anything on your computer
you can quickly pull from. Now the final option we have
is this tab right down here, which is Lightroom photos. If you're not sure
what Lightroom is, it is also an Adobe software that is paired very
nicely with Photoshop. And it's more targeted
towards photographers. So if you have some experience in photography
and editing photos, you may have used
Lightroom before. And if you do use Lightroom, this is definitely something you're going to want to utilize. So if you click
Lightroom photos, photoshop is going to pull all of the photos you
have on Lightroom and you can easily import anything
from Lightroom into Photoshop. And it is super
quick and simple. All you have to do
is make sure that your Photoshop and
Lightroom or both synced up on the
same Adobe account so you can pull from each other. And that's pretty
much it when it comes to uploading photos
into Photoshop, it's pretty easy and
straightforward, but I just wanted to
quickly go over it. So you are a 100% on track. I also want to mention
that in the next lesson, I have three downloadable photos that you can use to follow along as closely as you can with me in these next
upcoming lessons. Basically, it's
just all the photos that I use in the next lessons. So if you don't want
to use your own photo, you can use the same exact photo that I'm gonna be working with to follow along with
me as closely as you can. But if you want to
use your own photos for the lessons,
that's totally fine. It's completely up to you. But they're gonna be there if
you choose to go with that. So whatever you're
gonna go with, choose a photo and we'll
go ahead and head over to the next lesson and
start removing things.
3. Clone Stamp Tool: Just in case you skipped the last lesson on
how to import photos, you may have already
known how to do that, so you just skipped over. But I did mention in
that lesson that if you want to follow along with
me as closely as possible, I do have downloadable resources in the last lesson where
you can download all three of the photos I'm going to
work on and you can follow along with me on the
same exact photos. If you're wondering what
those three photos were in the last lesson,
that's what those are. Also, if you did skip
the last lesson, I recommend that you go
back and watch it because I do mention some other
things, some different ways. You can import photos
from Lightroom or your computer and change
some of the settings. But anyways, I'm gonna
go ahead and show you the first tool that you can use to remove something
in Photoshop. Remove anything from a
photo using Photoshop. So for this first one, we're going to use this
photo here of some ducts. In the tour. We're gonna be using
the clone stamp tool. The clone stamp tool
is gonna be this one right here with
the little stamp, you can go ahead and click it, or you can hit S on your keyboard and it's
going to bring that up. That's a little shortcut
S on your keyboard. It's going to bring that up. Now, what exactly the
cloning Stamp tool does is basically
you're going to clone a certain portion of your foot photo over into
another portion of your photo. But first, let's go ahead
and figure out what our goal is with this photo. I think with this photo,
our goal is going to be to get rid of this duct right here. It's a little bit
crowded with ducts. So let's go ahead and
try to remove one. So what we're gonna do is
go ahead and hold options. And then our cursor
is going to turn into this little target
or a bulls-eye. And what we're gonna do is
we're going to select an area, let's select out
here in the water. And this is what
we want to read, what we want to use to
replace the Duckworth. So we're gonna go
ahead and click. And now we're going to let go of options and
we're going to come over here to the duck
and just color it in. And as you can see,
there's a little X. And it's basically
just copying and pasting that area over the duck. Or you could say it's
stamping it over the duck for then you can see we've run into an
issue right there. Where is now putting the
other ducks head down there. And basically we can go ahead
and just hit Options again, select a new area, then start coloring in. So as you can see, it doesn't look pretty rough
and irregular in places. We go ahead and hit
Command Plus we can zoom in and you can see
that it's pretty rough. You can see the water just
doesn't quite line up. So a really nifty
hotkey we can use that you should
definitely memorize is Command Z. You hold Command Z. You can keep hitting
it and it's just going to undo all of your stuff. So this time what we're gonna
do is we're going to come up to flow and we're going to bring that down a little bit, which is going to make it so
our edges aren't so sharp. So when we hit Options
and we're going to select our area that we want to
brush over with the duck. Now when we go to do it, you can see that
our edges aren't super harsh like
they were before. And it looks a bit more
smooth and natural. We can go ahead and select another portion just to
smooth out these edges here and make it look
the most natural we can. And then when we zoom out, you can see that there's hardly any remnants of a
duct being there. Now you can definitely spend some more time in Polish
this out the best you can. And I do want to mention
that this is only one of the three tools that you
can use to remove things. But I will say this tool
is really only useful when a few subjects spotted over a
background that is similar. It's gonna be really difficult trying to use this method on a photo that has a ton of different
things going on in it. The only reason I
use this method on this duct photo is
because the water, it looks very similar
throughout the entire photo. So it was pretty simple to
remove one of the ducts. Now for every one
of these lessons, I'm going to have some notes
after that are going to show the hotkeys and the steps to
how to use certain tools. So once again, this was the
clone stamp tool and this is just a really nice
example of when would be a good time to use this tool
on a photo such as this one.
4. Spot Healing Brush Tool: Alright, welcome to
the next lesson. In this lesson, we're
going to be going over the spot healing tool or
the Spot Healing Brush, exactly what it's called, Spot Healing Brush tool. So just like the other tool, you can go ahead and
click on the tool. It's this little band-aid
thing here on the side. Or you can go ahead
and just hit J, which is the hotkey for it, and it will bring it up. Here we have this photo which we're going to
use for this tool. So basically, the
spot healing brush can be used in multiple ways. But I find it the best way, removing a bunch of small
things in your photo. So for example, see this little white dot
here on the road. Let's say we want to
get rid of that just because it's a
little distracting, simply just go over it super
easily and it'll go away. Now you might be thinking, wow, who's going to upload a photo to Photoshop and just get rid
of something that small. Hold on. Hey, can remove things a
little bit bigger than that. Let's go ahead and
hit Command Plus. And we're going to
zoom in a little bit. And I think this photo would
look better if we eliminate these distracting or road signs here on the side of the road. So let's go ahead and
zoom in a bit more just so we can have
a very clear look at what we're removing. And basically we're just
going to click in color over the area we want to remove. Then you let go and just
like that, it is gone. You can see that the fence kind of goes along down in this dip, along with the rest of the fence does a really good
job at using content aware and replace that area
with the surrounding pixels. So let's go ahead and remove these signs here on
the side as well. You can see it add a little bit of the fence and right there, you can go ahead and just go over again and get rid of it. But when you zoom out, even if the fence or was there, there's no way you
would ever be able to tell that that little
repeat was right there. So just like using Command Plus, you can click Command Minus and you'll zoom out
just like I did there. Well, let's go
ahead and zoom back in and look at the
other side of the road. And let's go ahead and
get rid of these signs and these little fence posts that are a little bit darker. We can also scroll
over a bit and get rid of these buildings
out on the horizon. Just to, oops. So as you can see, it just added a
bunch of bushes in this area up here on the
horizon when that happens, just hit Command Z and it tried to make the brush
a little bit smaller, so it's not pulling from
such a large portion. So to make your brush smaller, just come over here
to where it says, Mine says 97 right here. And right here you have the size and the hardness
and the spacing. So let's go ahead and
bring that size down. Let's bring it down
to about 46 pixels. Yeah, that looks a lot better. You can also change
the hardness. So just like in the last tool, how the edges were
really sharp and then we made them a bit softer
so it look more natural. That's basically the
same thing here. So let's go ahead and remove these buildings
and try again. And hopefully we don't get
a bunch of bushes up there. And just like that, that looks pretty good at
pulled from the mountain, which is what we wanted. If you zoom in super close, you can see how it may look
a little bit irregular. But like I said, when you're zoomed out and seeing
the whole picture, you're never going to notice it. And you can spend
a lot more time trying to make it perfect, but I'm satisfied with that. So I'm gonna go ahead and
move on down here and just remove this little
piece of trash right here. Just because we don't
want trashing our photos. And then let's go ahead
and zoom back out. And all these signs
are completely gone and it just looks a
little bit more cleaner. I liked the car there in
the middle of the road, so I'm going to keep it
there and it's just a little less distracting with those yellow and white signs
on the side of the road. Looks a lot more
aesthetically pleasing. So once again, that is the
spot Brush healing tool. It's really useful for
small items in your photo. And if there's a
whole bunch of them, you can quickly just go through and remove
a bunch of stuff. For example, let's say you have a subject in
your photo that's wearing a black shirt and has a bunch of lint and hair on it. You can go through
really quickly and just remove it and make them
look nice and clean. If they forgot to lint roll their shirt before they
came to your photo shoot. And once again, the command
or the hotkey for that is J. You can just hit J and it'll automatically pull up that tool.
5. Lasso Tool: Alright, in this lesson
we're going to go over the third and final tool
that you can use to remove any object in your
photos using Photoshop. And this is arguably the best tool to use for
removing things as well, depending on what
is in your photo, any three of these tools
may be the best option, but I find myself using this
one more often than not. And what exactly is it
going to be the Lasso tool? So if we go ahead
and come over here, right up here at the top, you can click this
little Lasso icon, or you can hit the L key
and it'll bring it up. That's, it's hockey lasso tool. We're gonna go ahead and
zoom in here a little bit with Command
Plus on our subject. So this is what I
want to remove. The photo we have here is a awesome photo I took at
Arches National Parks. And I was lucky enough to get this photo with only
one person in it. It was a super busy day. So they were just a ton of people and I was lucky enough
to just get one person. So we're gonna go
ahead and remove them. So this photo can be perfect just the way we
want it with no people. So let's go ahead and zoom in nice and close on our subject. And we'll go ahead and hit L
and bring up the Lasso Tool. Once we have that, we're
basically just going to click and lasso in our subject. That's why it's called
the Lasso tool. We're gonna make sure we get
his shadow in there as well. And the closer you can get
to the subject of better. But it's not that big of a deal. Once you have it,
you're gonna let go and you're going to see these marching ants on the line. And that's how you know that
your lasso is complete. You're then going to
hit Shift, Delete. Once you hit shift delete, this little window
is going to open up. In this window. You don't really
want to worry about any of this stuff down here, but this box right here
that says contents, you want to make sure
it says content aware. So if it doesn't hit the
little drop-down arrow, and make sure you
hit content aware, what that does is
when you hit Okay, photoshop is going to erase everything in the Lasso
area and use the, the, it's going to
use the content in this surroundings to replace it. So that's why it's
called content aware. So once we have that selected, we're gonna go
ahead and hit Okay. And Photoshop is going to take a few seconds
to do its thing. And just like that, it is gone. And we can go ahead
and zoom back out. And you can see that
the lasso tool does a pretty fantastic job of
getting rid of things. I think it looks a lot
smoother and nicer than the spot healing
tool or the stamp tool. And you can do this with a variety of different
objects and things. Photo. So that's it when it
comes to the lasso tool. Not only is it the
most effective tool, I think it is one of the more simple tools
to use as well. Just like that, it has gone. But make sure you watch the next lesson
because we're gonna go over a common problem you
may face using this tool, but I'm going to
show you a super easy solution to get around it.
6. Content Aware Fill: So let's say you're
using the Lasso tool. We have this photo here
and we want to get rid of these leaves up above the house. So we'll go ahead and
just lasso in the leaves. And once we have that, we'll just hit Okay, we'll do the shift delete, and just start
getting rid of stuff. Alright. It didn't Hughes the house
like I was hoping it would, but it still did
use a few elements. I don't want pasted in the sky. So if we go ahead
and zoom in here, you can see that there
are a few twigs right here in the sky
that it just pulled from here a little
bit here as well. So lots of times
when you're using the Lasso tool and
you lasso stuff in, It's going to take
elements that you don't necessarily want and it's going
to put them in that area. So what I was hoping would happen in what I
thought would happen, but at the same time, it's a good job that
it didn't because then I don't have
to do extra steps. Was I was thinking that
it was going to pull from pieces of the house
and put it up in the sky. And lots of times when I
have done this before, it will do that. It'll take elements from certain areas of the
photo and put in areas. I don't want it. So let's go ahead and hit
Command Z and undo all of this. And this time what we're gonna
do is we're going to lasso in our leaves here
to get rid of them. Let go. And instead of hitting
Shift, Delete right away, we're gonna go ahead and
come up here and hit edit. Once we hit that, let's
go ahead and come down here where it says
content aware fill. Once we click that, it's
then going to bring up this weird green stuff over your whole photo and then have another photo over
here on this side. So basically, what
it's showing us right now is it's telling us everything that is
highlighted green. That's what Photoshop is
going to use with content aware to replace the
section that you want gone. And then over here is showing an example of what that's
going to look like. As you can see, we have
a bunch of sticks and twigs in the air that
we do not want there. For an, for example, that could be something
like the house. It could be putting
the house up there, anything that we don't want. So basically what we have right here is a brush it up here. We can control the size of it. And basically we can erase any part of the green
that we want so we can tell Photoshop
and do not use the house to replace
the area in the sky. Don't use the
chimney right there. And most important, do
not use these twigs and sticks because I don't want random twigs and sticks
floating in the sky. And as you can see down
here, it's loading, showing you right then in there what it will then look like. And as you can see, the sticks are pretty
much all gone. And that is what
we're going to want. You can even do really
go really nitty-gritty, you know, get rid of these
leaves and stuff like that. But basically you just
want to make it so Photoshop is not using unwanted elements
to replace things. And along with erasing things, you can come up here and hit the plus sign and you can
add stuff if you want. You can say, Hey,
I want you to use more of this in Blue
Mountain color down here to replace that area just to add some more
stuff to the sky. But lots of times it's not going to make a big difference. You can just help out Photoshop by directing
it a little bit more. If Content Aware is having a hard time with this specific
thing you want to remove. And once you're satisfied with
all your highlighted area, just go ahead and hit Apply. And then okay. And just like that, all the leaves are
gone and there are no random sticks and twigs
floating in the sky as well. I've tried to edit photos where this problem is
much more severe. For example, like I said before, it would try to put something like the
rooftop in the sky, which is definitely not
something you want. So if you ever
faced this problem, That's how you take care of it. Just go up to the top, hit Edit and go down
to content aware fill and make those adjustments
before you hit Okay.
7. Class Project: So now that you've
learned how to use these three different tools to remove anything in your
photo using Photoshop, I want you to choose
one of the tools, and hopefully you
use all of them. But for this, I want
you to just choose one and choose any
photo you want. It can be one of
the three photos I provided or can be one of
your own personal photos. And I just want to see in the project section a before and after of two photos where you removed something
from that photo. Also, if you have any questions, be sure to leave them in
the discussion section, and I'll be happy to
try to answer them. And I cannot wait to see
your project once more, one photo, it can be more
than one if you want. Also, you can do three foes. You'd have five
photos as many as you want, just at least one. Any photo you want before and after of something
that was removed.
8. Conclusion: Thank you so much for
taking this class. I really hope it helped you learn something and how to use Photoshop a bit better and remove those pesky
things in your photo, not making them picture. Perfect. But if you
enjoyed this class, please leave a review and
if you didn't enjoy it, please also leave a review
and let me know what I can do to get better at making it
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photography based stuff. And once again, thank you so
much for taking my class. And please let me know
what kind of classes would you like to see
from me in the future? And don't forget to go check out my other classes if
you like this one. Thank you so much and
I'll see you later.
Quinton Batchelor, Photographer
