Chapter 5

Now you see it, now you don’t

Some easy ways to retouch your photographs

For as long as there has been the means to retouch photographs (with or without the use of a computer), photographers have been interested in finding ways to manipulate their photographs. While Photoshop is a very complex program, this chapter has been designed to show you a number of handy retouching tricks that don’t require you to be an accomplished retouch artist. The tutorials contained in this chapter are all fairly easy to follow and show a number of ways you can remove objects from an image quickly and easily without needing to use standard retouching tools such as the clone stamp or healing brush.

Removing objects

Removing foreground objects

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