Replace an Object in a Photo
by Lee on Feb.25, 2009, under Photo Editing
A reader asked how to remove the magazine from the following photo. Like all PS/PSE techniques, there are multiple ways to accomplish this so I whipped up a quick, easy fix for this problem. Here are the original and final photos. Click to see a larger image.
Remove the magazine
Magazine removed
First, I duplicated the background layer by pressing Control+J. Next, I selected the the magazine using the polygonal lasso tool. Remember, in the polygonal lasso tool, simply click the start point and move the mouse to the end point and a straight line will be drawn between the 2 points. The selection now protects the rest of the photo so you can make changes inside the selection but it won’t spill over into the area outside the selection.
Finally, I used the clone stamp tool to clone parts of the fabric over the magazine. When the magazine was completely filled, I pressed Control+D to remove the “marching ants”. I could see the edge of the selection so, using the clone stamp tool, I blended the edges and ended up with the photo on the right.
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March 25th, 2009 on 3:55 pm
Great Photoshop tip. Found it through Google and used it to get rid of a whole person in a photograph