Explore the process of editing a London scene in Photoshop, preparing it for the addition of new elements such as a crane and a hiker. Learn how to use the clone stamp tool to remove unwanted elements in the image, and prepare the scene for new additions, focusing on maintaining a coherent perspective throughout the image.
Key Insights
- The clone stamp tool is a powerful tool in Photoshop, used here to remove graffiti from the sidewalk in the London scene.
- Attention to detail is crucial when editing an image, as elements must be carefully aligned to maintain perspective and avoid visual inconsistencies.
- Effective editing also involves reducing distractions within an image, such as lowering the height of a tower in this case, to improve overall composition.
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In this video, we’ll edit our London scene to prepare for adding our crane as well as our hiker.
Let’s begin by opening our London scene. We’ll go to File, Open, and open the London Banner 3 Photoshop file, then click Open.
Looking at the scene, we’re ready to add our hiker right in the middle of the sidewalk, as well as our crane in the background.
However, we want to do a little touch-up before adding these elements. To do this, we need to remove two key features.
First, we want to remove the graffiti from the sidewalk, and we also want to shorten the tower on the top left-hand side, as I think it detracts a little too much from the sky.
Let’s begin by removing the graffiti. We’ll zoom in and scroll down, and we’ll use our Clone Stamp Tool to remove the graffiti.
We’ll hit ALT to determine our source point. This is a little tricky, as we’ll want to line up the lines of the sidewalk with where we draw our pixels from.
To do so, we’ll zoom in closely to see what we’re working with. We’ll hit ALT, and I’m going to draw pixels from above and match up the lines.
Then, drag down to the left and right. It’ll probably be most efficient to do this one brick at a time.
In addition, because the bricks vary in size based on perspective, we’ll need to draw from multiple places. In this case, I’ll draw from the left, and here, I’m going to drag from below.
Oftentimes, the best results come from using ALT multiple times throughout this process. In this case, we’ll try to match up the lines as best as we can.
Right here, we need to fix this gap in the middle, so I’ll hit ALT and remove that gap by dragging to the top.
Add a little more gap here, and looking up top, we need to add a gap there.
We’ll hit ALT, blend the gap, and remove it.
Let’s zoom in a little closer.
We can see there’s still a bit of an error here. We have the middle gap, and as we can see, we’ll simply piece this together using parts of different bricks.
This looks good for now.
Let’s fix this bottom gap using ALT.
If we zoom out, we wouldn’t notice any difference in the graffiti.
Next, let’s fix the tower at the top. We’ll take the top of this tower and bring it down slightly so it takes up less of the sky.
We’ll zoom in and up. In this case, I’ll use ALT to take the top of the tower and move it to about here.
Next, I’ll simply drag down until it blends nicely.
However, I still need to remove the top, so I’ll re-select ALT from the top, line it up, and begin dragging up.
Then, using ALT multiple times from different points, I’ll recreate the clouds.
If we zoom out, we can see that the tower is now on the left-hand side, taking up less of the sky, and we’ve removed the graffiti from the bottom.
If we hit Z to zoom and go to our options bar and select Fit Screen, we can see the entire image.
Let’s save our work using CTRL S. In the next video, we’ll begin adding our hiker and our construction crane.
See you then!