From the course: Photoshop Insider Training: Photo Restoration
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Re-creating missing pieces by mirroring - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Insider Training: Photo Restoration
Re-creating missing pieces by mirroring
A great trick for restoring photos is using existing content to replace an area or to fill in an area that's otherwise unrecoverable. So I could use the Clone Stamp to pick up the window or the steps or some of the areas here and paste them in, but what I want to show you is a trick called mirroring, where we take an element and we flip it over to disguise a tough area of the image. So what we are going to do is just use our Selection tool and grab these pillars here. And it doesn't have to be perfect; just make a rough selection. We are going to hit Command+C to copy that, Command+V to the drop it in as a layer, and then Command+T to transform it. And I am just going to grab one side and flip it over, so it looks like the inverse. Then we can move it over, drop it roughly into position, commit that, and grab our Eraser tool to erase the edges. You can see I am doing this from a distance and not spending a ton of time on it, but it becomes believable pretty quickly. It's a great way…
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