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Software Workshop: How To Remove a Person From a Photo

Use Adobe Photoshop's cloning and healing tools to make a figure disappear

Step 1



Start by making a copy of your background layer; this way you’ll have an accessible copy of your original image if you need it. When removing someone from a picture, use what you can from the original and invent as little as possible. Here, we can use the background on the right to cover the figure we’re removing. Type L to get the Lasso tool, then make a selection around the extra background on the right.