How to Remove Footprints in Sand - Advanced Texture Replacement

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Removing footprints and other distractions in sand can be quite difficult, as sand has inherent underlying texture than can be easily destroyed by steps in the sand.
In order to remove footprints, you have to build the sand back in a way that makes it look like it has never been stepped on.
Learn how to use additional assets like stock photos to rebuild sand and make it appear as though it has the original sand texture.
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[@phlearn]

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[@paris08141]

This is so great! I love these more advanced tutorials. Texture is always challenging for me so seeing these steps are so helpful. Thank you so much.

[@MusicalBox]

Great technique and awesome tutorial. Thank you so much Aaron! Even if I've been using Photoshop (non professionally) for more than 15 years, I always learn something new when watching your videos.

[@Mr31formula]

Fantastic tutorial. Masking and moving layers up and down. These techniques really help me. Thank you.

[@steveking6204]

Another great retouching video from PHLEARN! Excellent. I appreciate very much that you do these videos of more complex examples. I learn a ton.

[@eoslove2022]

WOW! Amazing...learned stuff I can apply elsewhere. Thank you, Arron.

[@FranHoganPanama]

Wow! Thank you for wonderful techniques and ''tricks'' for getting the job done, beautifully. What fun!

[@mrbob8695]

You have what is known as "Mastery". You "Own" this skill!

[@patrickdelahanty6700]

Thanks again, Aaron, for all your tips and guidance.

[@NarenMediaWorks]

Love you Aaron, since the beginning.

[@edmundhayes7982]

Love your tutorials. Always learn something from them

[@knt_brn1246]

Thank you very much!!! I learned a lot from your tutorials. Please keep it up and teach us some more educational editing stuff. Supporting here👏

[@joshhardy1978]

It was a joy seeing your active thought in problem solving and your solution is really simple for such a complex challenge. Even from other videos, I’ve always loved your use of the brush tool when I would have reached for a clone or healing brush. The pacing and advanced nature of this video were fantastic, I hope to see more like this in the future! Sorry if you mentioned this in the video, but what are your thoughts on using a displacement map for the shadow edge? I guess the mask is less destructive, but more time intensive.

[@luvercpl]

You're a star....rushing off to seaside just to try it out!

[@phlearn]

Haha awesome, thanks!

[@rode.retouch]

Such a cool technique with the sand! Thank you Aaron. I’ve been working as a freelance retoucher for the last 4 years just because I started watching your tutorials one day.

[@sejalgpatelphoto]

You are genius! I needed a way to smooth sand on a landscape photo from Hawaii and this may be my solution!!! Thank you so much. I trued frequency separation but the smooth area was so small that it didn't look so good.

[@AffinityPC]

Very smart! Fabulous ideas! Truly appreciate all the time and effort you put in to this one!

[@andrewthompson6893]

1. You're a God. 2. I want to learn how to keep all these techniques in my head like you can.

[@Goldmangun]

Brilliant! What I find so impressive is not just your extraordinary artistic skill but your ability to come up with a solution to such a complex problem. I don’t think I could have imagined those steps let alone executed them to such a high standard!

[@Photo911]

Thanks Aaron!! Always great stuff!!

[@vortac2k9]

Fantastic sesh… love it!!

[@photonsonpixels]

Just brilliant! Thank you Aaron.

[@tsoupakis]

nice , been a while i’ve enjoyed your videos so much . thank you

[@Andrew-ie8lb]

Aaron, your techniques, tips, and 'tricks' for using Photoshop never fail to amaze! With your teaching style, you make it so easy to understand the program and then I am able to apply your lessons to correct & adjust my images for my historical society's publications. Thank you! Keep up the great work. Looking forward to seeing your collaboration video with Mr. Ramirez from PTC tomorrow.

[@jonnybondphoto]

I do like the longer form videos. Reminds me of the old days when you were making tutorials 7 years ago. Well done Aaron.

[@phlearn]

Thank you!

[@kassiefairbanks7008]

You always have the easiest way of explaining things! I love it!

[@zryanismail7495]

Thank you for this tutorial! you are the best I learned many things from your videos

[@CarlyTho]

This was amazing! Thank you!

[@shafiqulislam5065]

just cool.. need more similar videos tutorials, thank you

[@TomWindeknecht]

Super cool technique!

[@larapater2596]

Thank you) that’s very helpful! I love your tuts

[@spennypayne]

Awesome tutorial!

[@Exevium]

You’re still my favourite guy to go to if I need a tutorial, this was awesome! Love that you’re the ‘Navigator’ as well, seems very appropriate. If I may be so bold to make a suggestion: I would place the camera on the other side of you, so from the viewers perspective, it looks like you’re looking at your canvas, while now it seems you’re looking away from it. It’s a small thing, but I think it looks more logical. Edit: come to realise, this would probably be difficult to do without having problems with the background, or without creating an uncomfortable work position.

[@MichaelWDietrich]

Great technique especially as until now I only did see landscape phographers solving this with frequency separation and doubt that this would work on this example.

[@fr1man]

Awesome tutorial. your tutorials get better and better. Thanks!

[@kristofferguldagerterkelse9298]

Another fantastic tutorial ;-) - keep up the good work!! Greetings from Denmark 🙂

[@phlearn]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@plemas]

brilliant! Thanks again

[@chilecayenne]

Hi Aaron!! Ok, please excuse me a second while I scoop my jaw off the ground, it hit hard when it dropped. WOW...this was so educational...I"m bookmarking this technique for other projects I may come across. I"m currently working with Affinity Photo, so I'll maybe try this using that tool and see what the differences are in controls, etc. As usual, a big fan and enjoying seeing you post again on YT!! I'd like to suggest again, you bring in a color film negative from a high resolution scan (scanner or digital camera scan) and use PS to invert and correct it. maybe do 2 of these one with a new negative and one with an old one where you also have to do a bit of repair on it. CC

[@ouajbir]

Absolutely genius technique 🔥

[@phlearn]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@johnshim7945]

Thank you for this tutorial! This provides really good information on important tools and methods in photoshop in general.

[@andreaspetershtc]

Great video which just leaves one open question: how did she get there without leaving any footprint. Because of this it's immediately clear that there was a lot of photoshop involved in that final image.

[@robertminnicks1136]

Really amazing!

[@adrianwells769]

Very impressive, thanks

[@leighmichelle8565]

Love it! Thanks for the tutorial - your channel is phenomenal and it's always beneficial to learn something new.

[@mwroberts]

A great tutorial, filled with some amazing useful techniques. Thank you for this tutorial.

[@cagicagicagi]

I always admired the teaching design, the way you put yourself in the corner of the application, and the full-screen storytelling to emphasize something.. just amazing. Just want to know which microphone are you using? The quality is great and it's really small.

[@TheDuccky]

beautiful, thanks for the quick tutorial!

[@phlearn]

Thanks so much!

[@gas3d]

Good Job!

[@emrahy.849]

thnxx...great again as usual

[@morninggraphics2052]

I like the way you explain, thanks and your voice is supper coooooooooooooool bro

[@stewartlogie]

That's a good one!

[@KK-gp5ji]

Excellent technique! Can be applied to many situations. Can you please demonstrate how to animate something - for example, a drop of water falling into a glass of water with a splash? Thank you.

[@gopimk3122]

Beautiful

[@Robertobinetti70]

Thanks

[@MojtabaRz]

Awesome👍

[@camerachickphotography]

Thank you Aaron for this tutorial! I can imagine this comes in handy sometime! What I would like to see next is a tutorial about removing goosebumps on a model. Do you have a trick for that?

[@dane1293]

Nice wizardry

[@jessiegibson9023]

Good video thanks

[@henrykenudjasseyjnr235]

you are just awesome!

[@filetdelumiere5037]

Awesome videotutorial as always ! I follow you since so many years ! You taught me so much on Photoshop. Just a small remark: It could be nice to make the videos now in hires (4k ore more) to help seeing the techniques. I have still a full HD monitor but I gain more details when seeing KZbin videos in 1440 and downsampling them in full HD.

[@prachuyya]

Can you please make a tutorial on how actually Professionals use Frequency Separation. Thanks in advanced 🌼

[@marioboss79]

Another great video Aaron ! I want to only ask for somethings .... can You make a videos in higher resolution ? Like 1440 or 4K ? It woluld be a super.

[@Dylamorca]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks ! :)

[@phlearn]

Thank you!

[@ChrisCameronPhoto]

Very cool technique. Awesome result, except she needs to have left footprints or how did she get there?

[@phlearn]

Haha, good call!

[@petergunndetective]

When I'm editing studio work sometimes full body shots will have feet or hands where the light falloff (and just existing skin tone) make for odd and hard to manage colours. Do you have any pointers on getting a natural colour with hands and feet so they match the rest of the body?

[@adonismohtar]

Thanks you 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@phlearn]

Thanks Adonis

[@phattaxman]

Fantastic tutorial, Aaron. I learned a lot, as always. Perhaps it would be more difficult than smudging, but would it be possible to have the shadow follow the contours of the sand using a depth map? Thank you.

[@bettywiley6903]

Great tutorial as alway! How about smoothing water?

[@phlearn]

Great suggestion!

[@YanivAviran]

Hi Aaron, following you and PHLEARN since your first days almost. Really love your work and your great videos. Keep it up! Maybe time to bump up the resolution? 1080 feels outdated a bit and we miss some details. Love from Israel.

[@phlearn]

Great feedback, thanks Yaniv!

[@sarthakbhardwaj8937]

mast admi!!

[@Sadman_sakib]

Dope! 😀

[@da5idnz]

I am wondering why you didn't try Content-Aware Fill, the advanced layout where you can choose which parts of the image the program samples from - ie, you paint green the parts you allow it to sample from.

[@Needafollower]

Photoshop Jedi level 1000

[@alessandrozugno]

Little details sell the effect

[@dr.sandipmehta973]

gr8

[@madhumenon]

Aaron, may I suggest filming yourself looking in the other direction instead? Just move your laptop or monitor to the right. It's weird having your face look to the right away from the area where your actual instructions are being displayed (the image).

[@AnandKPhotography]

Hi Aaron. My message in the live chat got deleted (or went missing). Question was: in your opinion, what's a better method for blurring in frequency separation, gaussian or median?

[@phlearn]

I recommend gaussian blur, as you have a bit more control and can change the blur strength. Thanks for joining the premiere!

[@victorx4648]

Thank you for your tutorial. But without the footprints behind the model, it looks like she flew there and not walked.

[@gsbclicks3447]

❤️❤️❤️

[@imdeaf81]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@iiMOHAMMEDii]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@mauricioarouesty3463]

23:36 minutes for a tutorial that could last 5 minutes or less? You might consider doing smaller tutorials dude..!