The Easiest Way to Clean Backdrops in Photoshop

Summary by Krater

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.