DOG PHOTOGRAPHY - How to remove a leash in Photoshop (Complex Removal)

Yep, you read that right 🤓 today we're removing a lead in photoshop for Katarina! This image was posted into the critique and tips FB group with a plea for help to remove a leash form a complex photographic scene - a leash over the top of the dog itself.
In this video, we go into the nitty-gritty as I work through this removal step by step in real-time. Nothing is omitted and the different tools (clone tool, spot healing tool, patch tool etc) are used as a group to get from A to B as smoothly as possible.
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[@dorozina]

Quick tip: you can Scalę and ROTATE clone stamp tool: "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. Hold Alt (Mac: Option) Shift { or } to scale the Clone Source."

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Well we all know what I’ll be trying out tomorrow 🤓 Thanks for the tip, super useful! Every day is a learning day ☺️

[@lotielin]

Thank you so much, you are very good at explaining how and why you do all the different steps. I only discovered your KZbin channel like a week ago and I have already learned so much :)

[@MarieNuchols]

Wow, really impressive. I def need to be more patient with the cloning process. Thank you!

[@nuriahoes4926]

This tutorial really helped me just ... There is still the shadow of the leash on the floor :)

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

There sure is, this was just for the tools in question, this wouldn't be presented to a client like that 😊

[@nirvanamilton4356]

Amazing, thanks for making it so simple.

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Anytime!

[@susanneh2207]

Wow! I wish, I had your skills!😃

[@rachelritz2764]

This was awesome! Thank you :)

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

No problem!

[@loes6839]

this helped me a lot! thanks!

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

No problem!

[@JinHwang]

Great job. I love it and that is a cute dog. :)

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Thank you 🙂

[@nonamenosurname8516]

I just started with photoshop lately. Thanks for video, this is what I will try tomorrow. BTW you forgot about shadow on the ground :)

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Hope this video helped and good spot 🤓

[@robsmith6794]

I personally would use frequency separation. That way it's possible to separate the texture from the colour, which tends to give a better result without losing detail which can happen with the clone tool and the spot healing brush.

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

The issue here is that you are going to have to remove both the colour and the texture anyway rather than removing just colour or just texture, meaning a similarly high volume of clone work. I've not yet had a solid result with the FS method, but if you get great results then keep doing what you're doing Rob! 💪

[@JonBushell]

Nice. Do you use Lightroom mobile? In theory you should be able to achieve same results as Lighroom but I can’t get it to do same things.

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Hi Jon this is all in Photoshop. The clone/spot healing tools in Lightroom are not capable of this kind of retouching sadly 😔

[@amandasoderberg3884]

Thank you for the tutorial! I have one problem. At 5.20 you start to use your brush tool. when i go to use it nothing happens, do you push in any button for the brush to work? I feel like i am doing something wrong

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Ok, so first thing to check is that you have the mask selected from within the layer panel - make sure you have clicked on this. Then, you need to look at the colour of your brush - are you using a black brush on a white mask? If so, this is correct and should be fine! Then, check your brush is at 100% opacity and 100% flow, this will show at the top of the Photoshop screen. Let me know if you get stuck!

[@amandasoderberg3884]

@@ThatPhotographySpot I was using a white brush on a white mask so i changed the colour of the brush to black and it worked! thank you for helping me :)

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

That's ok! If you press D on your keyboard, the colour palettes switch back to black and white if you every get a bizarre colour on them. Then you can toggle between black and white by pressing X on your keyboard. with D and X, you'll always be ready to mask 🤓

[@whosaidcookies6600]

The shadow

[@davidlandfieldsports]

I’ve just had to do this with a brindle boxer x 😒 The only trouble is I only use photoshop on the iPad so it was a little challenging.

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

That's a shame David, its much easier to work on a laptop/desktop!

[@davidlandfieldsports]

That Dog Spot I think I’m going to have to look at a more desktop based approach for the photoshop edits.

[@philjohnson7573]

Do you do this by request?

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

Unfortunately this is not a service that we offer

[@thefrenchexpedition]

why not just content aware fill?

[@ThatPhotographySpot]

On textures like fluffy coats CAF or Fill-CA rarely produces a clean result unfortunately!

[@alfietheauggie1108]

You are so cute, let's be frens 😍