Editing Out Electrical Wires From Pictures

Video Transcript

"O.k., now I'm going to show you how to edit out electrical wires in a photo. Say, you've taken a photo of your laundry room or you know, something that's got a lot of wires that you know, are wrecking the shot. And you want to make them, kind of, you know, tidy up the photo. There are many ways to do that in Photoshop. I'm just going to show you probably one of the more simple ways of doing it. So here we are, we have a shot of a lot of wires and a lot of mess in someone's house. I'm zooming in, I'm not going to take out all the wires. But I'll show you, let's say, this black one right here, we want to get rid of that and kind of, you know, make it look more realistic. So what we're going to do, I'll show you the first way we can do it. Over here on the left, we're going to click on the Clone Stamp Tool. Basically, you know, we don't want to be bringing it down, maybe a little bit smaller, bring it down to about 4 pixels. So with a Clone Stamp, what you do is, you want to click Option, just next to the wire that you want to kind of, hide. So as you kind of, paint over the wire it's taking on, it's sampling the area that you Out and clicked on. So everything about the place, it's changed the spot again. So what I'm doing is, I'm pressing that Out of the option key. Click next to it and just kind of, going nice and slow, try and keep it as smooth as you can. I mean, obviously, it's been a lot of time doing this, try and get it as clean and realistic as possible. There's a little bit of spaces here to clean up. You can just spot click them, rather than try to paint and drag over them. Generally, by doing that you can avoid too much of the sampling and making everything look too much the same. Which can happen with the Clone Stamp Tool. But as you can see it, it's looking not too bad right now. So, yeah, that's basically how you go about getting rid of wires in photos using Photoshop."