Remove Objects From Complex Textures in Photoshop | Object Removal 04

In the final episode of our removing objects in Photoshop series, learn how to remove distractions when the background is busy and full of complex textures! Follow along with this advanced lesson of an essential Photoshop skill.
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[@kenpics]

Killer tut, I have always struggled to clone out curves but seeing how you worked on the arch in a new layer was fantastic. Subscribing to your channel was one of the best moves i ever made.

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

The fact you and many other gurus are now supplying test/sample images for us to follow along with really improves our learning immensely. As doing this follow along with various images of our own is not quite the same, so I’m very thankful for that aspect of this and other tutorials. But, the multiple tools used in various ways to achieve the correct results are eye opening. I’ve been using these tools for years, but seeing how they all come together to do one job is a new skill to my bow. Thank you Aaron.

[@AndrewKabaliuk]

Hey! Very nice! Love how you made "Spot healing brush tool" to feel proud of itself, it definitely deserves it!

[@jcscobucci]

You are really the best remover of unwanted objects in a photograph; your technique works very well. I'm impressed with how quickly you get the job done. Applause!

[@jacobn842m]

He’s truly impressively, so professional. I’ve learned a lot from him.

[@MrRudyc]

Great information from a great teacher. Thanks so much for your work and patience.

[@tandblue2]

Of COURSE I'm still watching this (@21:50). Thank you - this really helps to - reduce how overwhelming so much detail and texture is - the path to take and how to break down a huge amount of stuff into a manageable clumps. I've always been scared to make so many layers thinking it would clog up the program....but your use of warp tool on the layers is an eye opener. Really enjoying this digging into a realistically challenging object removal exercise. (I'll bet you are very good at cleaning up a room in a house just logically working away at it!) :-)

[@margueritewhite3038]

You make it look soooo easy!! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@wildcoaststudio]

Very helpful. I do a lot of architecture work and detailed clone stamping is always a challenge but there some very useful techniques here. Thanks!

[@vrguytokyo]

Some MUST KNOW cloning / healing tool shortcuts that are extremely handy to learn ESPECIALLY to ROTATE the brush to match a curve or angle.... Hold Alt (Mac: Option) Shift and tap on the Arrow keys (left, right, up and down) to nudge the Clone Source. Hold Alt (Mac: Option) Shift < or > to rotate the Clone Source.

[@birdie399]

Very interesting and helpful techniques here. Thanks for all the hard work.

[@patrickspahr825]

Wow! Brilliant and so helpful. Thank you.

[@joseluisavilagonzalez9626]

Hard but illustrative work. I learned a lot. Thank you Aaron!

[@marcelrasing4801]

If you send Aaron three barely alive pixels in an envelope and ask him to create the sunflower fields from van Gogh from it you will get it back same day and he throws in the starry night painting for free!

[@leonardomauhs6557]

I wasn't even looking for a tutorial, but this is so satisfying to watch. It is really amazing how good you are at this.

[@orionorion2405]

Excellent work !!

[@hambone4402]

Watching this I finally get how to use the clone stamp tool. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@HPTM]

Subscribed to you was the best idea. Best wishes. Thank you!

[@DBPhotoU]

Great job, Aaron. I appreciate your explanations of the differences between the Healing Brush tools and the Clone Stamp tool.

[@ronaldarandia]

Wow! Many thanks for this master class Aaron and PHLEARN

[@manofwander]

Thank you for a detail tut with this tools .

[@gufostanco220]

7:48 now that's exactly the "what are you doin step-bro??" intonation

[@charrski2918]

I loved this tutorial - you make it look so easy. I did learn a lot - thanks so much - you are a great instructor

[@muralikrishna627]

Very nice tutorial and helpful, thank you very much

[@tonyarcher1401]

Very useful tutorial, you're intonation and speed progression are spot on, it was a worthy exercise to run with this in 'real' time so as a 'mere mortal' I could comprehend the effort, detail and movement around the tools and frame required, what took you 30 minutes I suspect will take me around 2 hours or more, but it will be worth it!! Thank you Aaron for what you do to enable 'us' to take our passion to the next level. (Tony, Essex, UK).

[@jonathanblaine4121]

Thank you so much for this. Great bite-size way to break down the general concepts of what clone stamp and healing brushes do differently and what each are better at than the others. As a freehand paint and pencil artist that doesn't work much with photographs, I was always confused and intimidated by them. Didn't play with them a lot. But I'm eager to try it now!

[@bala1000mina]

Thanks a lot Aaron for the great tutorial! Very helpful and informative for me. God bless you!

[@michellesandell8604]

wow -- #4 was especially intense, but I followed along with you on all 4, and learned a lot! thanks!!

[@mohammedelaoula1030]

Thank you for this amazing video

[@Bevlyn20]

Thank you that was a great tutorial. very helpful to me.

[@dboyd8628]

Perfect length video! I learned a great deal! Thank you.

[@dandiehm8414]

Great job as always, Aaron. Thanks!

[@kristofferguldagerterkelse9298]

Love your videos which are a little bit advanced ;-)

[@EktorJerry]

wow,thats i call "a tutorial"!!! tnx Aaron :)

[@MaverickGaming83]

"So anyway I started cloning". Great tut thanks!

[@LarryFasnacht]

Awesome! I would have thrown that shot out as being beyond my capabilities. But now I’m excited to try one! I had never thought of using the warp tool! That’s awesome.

[@cameraman2157]

really great video on this

[@bySterling]

Clone stamp still amazes me!

[@StevenMaybank]

this guy is a legend makes it look so easy for you to just follow an learn

[@heathercarslake8428]

Love your tutorials, I always learn something new, thanks Aaron. I thought this job looked impossible, but then you do the impossible!

[@ladislavasouralova3248]

Helped me a lot to improve my workflow. Thank you!

[@provocadorpt]

So happy to see you using a facade of the most beautiful city in the world. Thy city of Porto, in Portugal.

[@geraldinebryce594]

👏👏👏 brilliant liked this so much showing so many ways to get this job done Thank you

[@richardcoomber925]

I’m very impressed

[@Sandeepkumarpnp]

Thanks Aaron For making Every Time Pro Content . love From India . Thanks Sir

[@FranHoganPanama]

Yep, I watched it all the way through... and thank you! I have a very similar situation to fix (three clothes lines, clothes and shadows, all in front of and also reflected in a window with garden reflection! For a window manufacturing client. Now I know how to go about it! Thank you!

[@pondorbox]

Hi Aaron I'm really enjoying watching your tutorials and I learnt alot from them. I'd like you make a tutorial on the Patch tool and the Content-Aware Move tool. Thank you again !

[@Woojo01]

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[@jacobn842m]

Lovely job! Amazing tutorial

[@oneeyedphotographer]

Thank you.

[@rachelg7371]

You make it look so easy. ☺️Curious as to what settings you have for the clone stamp in the options bar.????

[@7thwonda317]

I know right?? My clone stamp doesn't work like that 🤣

[@abhirohilla1241]

good one Sir G

[@Alliswell-lh5eo]

Wow nice editing thanks

[@ChrisLee-UK]

The clone stamp is such a versitile tool, used in congunction with other tools, blend options, opacity etc, so many possibilities! Great video Aaron! Also don't forget you can click on Windows then clone source for even more options!

[@PaulScott_]

Thanks so much for sharing your PS knowledge with us and this is a great tutorial that will help me restore some vintage images I am working on. Thanks again and Stay Safe!

[@fabiofieri854]

impressive!

[@jessiegibson9023]

Good video thanks

[@jonnybondphoto]

Great! And to think you only used the brush tool to make this happen. I find it very difficult to use the brush tool by itself to replace or fill in different areas. You often do it with apparent ease and get good results. I am rarely that lucky, so I really appreciated this video which more resembles my typical work flow (clone stamp, healing and spot healing brush tools). It is mind numbing but the results speak for themselves. Thanks

[@TJXOimagery]

Great one Aaron

[@academica71]

wow, ty♥

[@patrickstebbings4748]

fantastic very helpful a big thankyou great tehniques

[@whynot6108]

Dope!

[@khalira1]

had to do these kind of things a few days ago to remove some watermarks from low-quality pictures for a coworker. it was quite painful but the result was quite acceptable haha

[@abeeralshaer5532]

I have a question, 1st of all thank you very much for your amazing videos we are learning a lot from it and your way in teaching and explaining is just beyond amazing, My question is in minute 17:50 I couldn't follow what you did when you merge the one you draw in the photo and it fit in the pic perfectly, can you please tell me how you exactly merge the angel in the photo without affecting the original photo at all

[@vicentedapalong1671]

I watched till the end

[@desertrose0601]

Yep. Can confirm as someone who does this for a living. This is exactly how to do it. There’s no shortcuts for some of these complex fixes. I just put on a podcast and settle in for a few hours when I’m working on a job like this.

[@emrahy.849]

thank u dude

[@irhgsy]

You are so damn good. Thanks.

[@omekedavidson6964]

What shortcut did you use to mirror the clone stamp when u got to the window? Amazing tutorial

[@playpadel5926]

Brilliant! Thank you so much. It looks easy to do but it's not!

[@niazivianemi6733]

You are amazing! Have you ever noticed that?!

[@sport777official]

I like your video thanks for sharing 🤝👍😍⚘

[@alexandrugrecov8964]

Patch work well also in some cases.

[@PauloRibeiro9797]

On top of all this you are also friendly and humorous. What more do we need?

[@youtubeaddict1]

Hey it's the hey guy!!!

[@SandyHansenPhotography]

Thank you very helpful! I struggle with cloning out. How do you turn the clone stamp tool? I seen it once but forgot.

[@vernonr7404]

Can you do a video or explain how to remove objects from behind a model (an irregular or organic shape), like a sign or a big softbox or a car? Does the Close Stamp Tool serve you well in that task as well?

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

Only thing I learned from this video is what the clone stamp tool is and how to use it. I managed to remove a person from the background of an image but it was fairly easy because it was so far and the resolution of the image was so high that you would never notice the weird warping.

[@rodrigomiraglio3574]

Yesßssssssssssssss!!!! Thanksss

[@martstevensprojectfotograf9078]

Is there any way to make the outlining of the healing brush tool thicker? It's (for me) so thin i lost track of where the cursor is. I then have to press spacebar to find it again.

[@Kaisersozze]

What's the difference between the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool (not the spot healing brush)? The healing brush also has Normal or Replace modes. If after creating a new layer using the clone stamp does nothing, make sure to have Sample 'Current and Below' layers and 'Sample All Layers' for the Spot Healing Brush tool. It was frustrating figuring that one out, wish that was mentioned in the tutorial.

[@rmjaln]

What do you mean by lifting your mouse or cursor (5 min mark) so it doesn’t repeat over and over. By doing this does it change/affect the sample area?

[@ms.lizzypoulos9276]

wow

[@marcelofarah8657]

In what situations would you recommend to use the patch tool?

[@JoeSchmidtPhotographer]

Would have been nice if you would have said to set the brush to Current Layer and Below. Mine was not set to that and it was kind of driving me crazy that it was not working. Thanks anyway.

[@151forShizzle]

Hey Aaron !!! Can you show us, how to delete a grid in front of a subject ? I have old family pictures which have a watermark grid in front of their faces ( don't ask why, the photograph took the money and never delivered the images without the grid ) -.- It's impossible to use any tool you recommend, i cant figure it out... Thanks!!!

[@GamingForFun2021]

amazing tutorials man, i made $80 bucks with one of your videos last month :)

[@jasonvillafane7088]

My clone stamp is not working. I clicked the option and click to copy the selection. But nothing happens when I am trying to fill in the new areas.

[@AsadAli-oq2tn]

Sir you have not select the background then how u remove this u on the new layer there is no work on new layer how you removing this plazzz explain?????

[@stevehamel1336]

I really need the warp tool to work, but when I do it, it’s says “could not transform because the initial bounding rectangle is empty” what does that mean? Help!?!?

[@jaysonfontela5761]

💖

[@1BigBucks1]

I've read that the layer limit in PS is 8,000. Never reached that high so can't confirm.

[@AsadAli-oq2tn]

I using now Photoshop CS6 when I work in new layer this is not effect on this plzzz explain how u work on a new layer certainly the clone stamp tool not work on the layes only work on background layer.

[@dannyjaison537]

Never seen u using content aware tool in edit menu. Why not?

[@suresh.k2840]

Sir architecture workin photo shop tell me sir

[@larnwithsagor5041]

Retouching.

[@sugriv3405]

Like 2nd comment 1st

[@CookieisKing]

Bob Ross for the photoshop generation

[@johanfrancis2001]

First comment

[@AsadAli-oq2tn]

Sorry sir I m not satisfied from this tutorial bcoz of the clone stamp tool not work on new layer how you work on it first explain this then we believe.

[@SenorGancho]

I really appreciate the spirit of contribution to learning; however I find the total failure of effective instructional technique frustrating. If your expectation is that 'buyers beware', this video is only for advanced PS users, fine. However, as a relative novice, I listen and observe with great frustration as you chat away with meaningless drivel but you fail is highlighting 'how' you are doing it. So please be upfront and state "this video is directed for PS users with a medium level" Very frustrating. The topic I love. The instructional technique on how to do it is sadly a total failure. With more than 4 decades of experience in the world of instruction I came away more frustrated than feeling better informed

[@WishingOnMy]

He says this video is part of a series. Try the other videos and see if you feel the same