Background (4mins)
Contents
Spot Healing Brush
New Blank Layer
Sample All Layers On
Clone Stamp Tool
New blank layer
Hardness 0
Opacity 75% ish
Aligned
Sample all layers
Content Aware Fill
Duplicate Layer (or MERGE TO TOP)
Use selection tool to choose area (lasso tool) to clean up
Edit > Fill > Content Aware
Repeat if not good enough
Use multiple selections to speed up process (shift key)
Content Aware Crop
Select Crop Tool
Turn off delete cropped pixels
Turn on Content Aware Fill
Drag crop area outside of frame
Apply
Only do small amounts at a time
Paint in Solid Colour
Select object to protect using select & mask output to selection
Invert selection
Create new blank layer
Eye drop colour to paint
Brush tool paint over background
Use clipped adjustment layer to amend background colour
Colour & Brightness
Use adjustment layers
Inverted mask
Paint in with white brush with reduced opacity
Patch Tool
Duplicate background layer
Select problem area with patch tool
Normal
Diffusion (low = defined edge, high = soft edge) high
Repeat to smooth