- [Voiceover] Another challenge is that there are
some reflections that could be cleaned up.
This is where tools like the Clone Stamp Tool
really come in handy or you can also use
Blurring or Content Aware Fill.
Let's grab the Zoom Tool here and go in on the mirror.
This is a little bit trickier.
So now we need to remove the camera and the tripod.
To do that I'm gonna make a selection.
Now let's select that Layer
and with the Quick Selection Tool,
I'll make a basic selection and I can click Refine Edge
and use Smart Radius.
Feather that just a little,
and click OK, there it is.
Let's just Expand that a few pixels.
There we go.
I'll press Q for Quick Mask
and this allows me to see the mask.
Now I can easily use my paintbrush to modify that mask.
In this case, so the lip of that plate
on top of the fireplace is preserved.
All right, Q exits and we've got our selection.
So now it's just a matter of removing that.
On this new empty Layer, you can try a few things.
Ultimately I'm a big fan of using the Clone Stamp Tool,
so I'll sample this point here, line that up,
and start to clone.
There we go.
Again, take the alignment and fill it in.
By using a few strokes and clicks, we can build that up.
Now that's a shadow so we just need
to soften that a little bit.
We've got a little bit of striation in there repeating.
Click, line that up,
and fill that in, there we go.
Not too bad.
Grab our Blur Tool and just give it a gentle pass.
There we go.
Now let's deselect that and pull out a little.
It's not looking too bad,
just a little bit of touch-up should solve that there.
This is where using the Smudge Tool can come in handy.
The Smudge Tool allows you to do things
like push the light or dark pixels.
So if I push the light pixels there,
I could just paint with that shadow
and force it to blend.
I'm basically fingerpainting here.
Let's switch this here,
and paint a little bit on this edge, there we go.
That blends it nicely.
All right, we've got a soft defocused area there
for the cast shadow.
Let's pull that back out and at this point
the distracting object has been removed.
Now feel free to continue to explore the image.
You might notice other small things like reflections,
but by cloning to an empty layer,
you often can remove those problems.
This allows you to go through and clean up the image,
and the goal is to spend as much time as is reasonable
to get the professional results that you want.