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Fixing a backdrop with the Patch tool

Fixing a backdrop with the Patch tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Fixing a backdrop with the Patch tool

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- [Narrator] Portrait photographers often use backdrops to minimize distractions behind the subject. And that's what I was doing here when I was photographing my daughter Elsie. She was just goofing around, and, you can see I have a backdrop here. It's a piece of plywood and it's covering up all of the stuff in our garage except there's some gaps on the edges. And sometimes with the edges we'll have issues with our backdrops or there may be an issue on the backdrop itself. How can we improve those areas? Well one way is to work with the Patch tool. Let me show you how that works. Here I'll click and drag the background layer down to the new layer icon to duplicate that layer, then double click the layer name and I'll call this one patch. Next step is to make a selection of a problem area. And you can make the selection with your Patch tool right here. With the Patch tool you have a few options. We'll work with normal here, so go ahead and select Normal from this pull-down menu, and…

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