Photoshop: Background Cleanup

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Part of the video series: Photoshop Image Manipulation

Summary: Cleaning up the background, in Photoshop, is important if you want to make your manipulated image appear smooth. Learn some tips for cleaning up the background of your image from a Photoshop expert in this free computer software video.

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By Robert Segundo
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Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more

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"So now what we're going to is we're going to try to fix this blurred mess we have going on here. So, let's look at our screen. And what I want to do here, is there's many ways I could do this, I think what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go into, I'm going to hit "J" and go back into my heel tool. I'm going to grab a big chunk of the selection here. Just kind of move it around a bit. I'm just trying to get a smoothness as you can see I'm getting some white lines here. So let's deselect this. Let's go into our clone stamp tool again. Let's actually bring our stamp up just a little bit bigger. Let's hit Alt, there we go that's going to clean it up just a little bit so let's bring this back up here like this. Let's hit Alt again. There we go that's going to smooth out a lot. Let's do this again, here, there we go, wonderful. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take our heel tool by hitting "J". We'll come over here and we'll grab this section here. What we want to do is, we're really wanting to blend this section in. So, there that will blend that in rather nicely. So let's Control D select that. Let's kind of do a little bit of blend here as well. I don't like this I don't want this to be so heavy striking, like so. There we go, Control D select, that's not so bad. Let's do this down here because I don't want this to be that bad either. There we go, Control D select. There we go. We've pretty much obliterated her face with a minor adjustment or two that we can make here, just to kind of clean everything up just a little bit better. And then actually if you want to you can actually hit "M" and get into the move tool and actually move this selection around and hit "J" again to get back into your heel tool. To actually get that, now that's giving us too much of a difference here. There we go, and let's control D select that. There we go that looks pretty good for right now. It's kind of scary, but that's alright we'll live with that and we'll move on to the next section."