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Cloning away problems on a new layer

Cloning away problems on a new layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Cloning away problems on a new layer

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- (Instructor) One of the camera techniques that portrait photographers like myself are very fond of, is capturing and image with a shallow depth of feel. The reason is, is because it draws the viewer in to the subject. Like with these two images, you can see their eyes are in focus, and the background's a blur because of that shallow depth of feel. Yet still, what can happen is you can have something in the background that is distracting. That you need to reduce or minimize it. Like with these two images. You can see this one, there's this black line, kind of coming out of his head, and the other one, we have these branches. So let's look at two different techniques for dealing with an issue in a background, so that we can reduce or minimize that issue. We'll start off with this photograph here. This is a portrait of a friend, who's a surfboard shaper, and I captured this image in his workshop, and there were two surfboards standing side by side, and the gap between the surfboards is…

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