The Easiest Way to Clean Backdrops in Photoshop
A video on YouTube. In Photography & Film, a Krater category.
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This Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to cleanly remove a crumply, textured backdrop behind a portrait subject, rebuild the background with blur, grain, and layer blending, and restore lost hair detail.
From the video
Answers: How do I clean up and blur a crumply backdrop in Photoshop?
- photoshop backdrop cleanup
- subject selection in photoshop
- content-aware fill
- gaussian blur background
- adding film grain in photoshop
- blending mode adjustments
- hair masking and refinement
What it concludes
- Expanding selection by about 50 pixels ensures hair edges and subjects are fully covered.
- Using a 50 percent gray layer set to Overlay blending mode allows adding noise without darkening or brightening midtones.
- Applying Gaussian blur to noise at around 0.3 to 0.4 pixels softens sharp grain to match image textures.
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