Photoshop question

[ManBearPig]

Ok, so I really don?t know what I?m doing with Photoshop, but I enjoy editing the pictures that I take. I?m trying to do something but I don?t know how:

I have a picture of someone and the background is a plain white wall and there is a trash bag or something obstructing it, and all I want to do is like take a sample of the wall and edit out the trash can. What would be the best tool to do this? I tried taking a color sample and just filling in that part but it didn?t work.

Thanks

 

[Malak]

Been a while since I did this, but I believe there is a tool like a patch that you select the area you are using as a sample, then color in the area you are replacing. Maybe that's the healing tool. It's all under the same tool but there are multiple ways of doing it. You can also select the area you want to replace, then move it into the area you want it to look like and it disappears. It's kinda tricky but I think you can figure it out. Find the patch/healing tool or whatever in the tray on the side.

 

[SickBeast]

Use the lassoo, and draw something approximately the shape of the trash can on the white area. Copy it to the clipboard. Create a new layer, and paste what you just copied onto the new layer. Then use the move tool to place it over the can. Presto!

You might need to clean it up a bit with the blur tool or something. The magic wand helps too. Good luck!

 

[SickBeast]

Another way to do it would be to magic wand the can, eyedropper the white colour, then fill in the can area white.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Even better idea: Use the clone tool to copy the wall over the trash bag. No layers needed.

If not then the previous posts will work just as well.

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic
Even better idea: Use the clone tool to copy the wall over the trash bag. No layers needed.

If not then the previous posts will work just as well.

clone stamp ftw

 

[StopSign]

use clone stamp with a large soft brush.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: StopSign
use clone stamp with a large soft brush.

:thumbsup:

 

[mulletgut]

Clone stamp is the biz for this kind of thing. I rubbed out my step-nanna from a family pic using that method.

 

[ManBearPig]

how come when after you select the source point and then you click and drag around instead of just click, it moves the source point too? it's really kind of annoying. also, how can you change the shape of the tool from a circle to a square or even thick line?

thanks

 

[Rockinacoustic]

The clone tool will duplicate everything around the point you have clicked on, not just the space your tool covers. Try clicking on a point far away from the source you want to eliminate, or just cover it up in batches instead of one shot.

 

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by: Heen05
how come when after you select the source point and then you click and drag around instead of just click, it moves the source point too? it's really kind of annoying. also, how can you change the shape of the tool from a circle to a square or even thick line?

thanks

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: Heen05

Originally posted by: Heen05
how come when after you select the source point and then you click and drag around instead of just click, it moves the source point too? it's really kind of annoying. also, how can you change the shape of the tool from a circle to a square or even thick line?

thanks

if the point didn't move with the brush, you'd have a clone stamp that wouldn't clone
if you want a 'patch' to be copied many places, make your selection and copy/paste

as far as the brush, you can do square, but its single pixel. i don't know that the stamp tool can use block or line brushes because it has opacity and flow settings.

typically with photoshop, if a tool cannot do what you want to do, you're not using the right tool

 

[StopSign]

If you need a square patch, use the marquee to copy and paste over another area, then blend in the edges. Brushes are not meant for square stuff.