1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,990
In the previous movie, we managed to reconstitute a lot of our couple using

2
00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,990
repeated applications of the Color Range command.

3
00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,990
However, we've gotten to a point where automation is no longer going to serve

4
00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,990
our purposes, and now we have to resort to hand-masking--that is, painting with

5
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,990
the Brush tool along with the Smudge tool inside the layer mask.

6
00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,990
This may sound like an inefficient approach; however, it turns out to be not only

7
00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,990
wildly efficient but also very obvious, and it's a kind of masking technique

8
00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,990
that you can go to when just absolutely nothing else will work.

9
00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,990
So I am going to zoom in to left half of Mary's face. And we've got some

10
00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,990
rough details down here in the knuckle region, along the jaw, along the top

11
00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,990
of the dress strap too.

12
00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,990
If you Alt+Click or Option+Click on that layer mask thumbnail, you will see that

13
00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,990
this area is just an absolute mess.

14
00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,990
So I am going to grab my Brush tool, which I can get by pressing the B key, and

15
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,990
then I will right-click inside the image window.

16
00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,990
Make sure my Hardness value is cranked up to 100%--very important for this

17
00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,990
technique--and then I'll press the X key to change my foreground color to black,

18
00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,990
and I'm going to paint over all that stuff that's bad. Just paint it away.

19
00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,990
Now, I'm going to Alt+Click, or Option+ Click on that layer mask thumbnail again

20
00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,990
so that I can see the image, and I am going to note the location of that shoulder

21
00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,990
region right there where it cuts off.

22
00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,990
Actually, I will draw a marquee around it like so and maybe move it over just a little bit.

23
00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,990
Now, I'm going to Shift+Click on the layer mask thumbnail to turn it off.

24
00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,990
But notice it's still active.

25
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,990
You can still paint inside of it even though you can't see what you're doing.

26
00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,990
Once you get a feel for how this works, it's an amazing technique.

27
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,990
It's the kind of stuff I do all the time.

28
00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,990
So I'm going to switch over to the Brush tool, press the X key to make my

29
00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,990
foreground color white, and then I will go ahead and click right about there,

30
00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,990
in the shoulder, maybe Shift+ Click down a little bit as well.

31
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,990
Let's go ahead and zoom in on this dress detail.

32
00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,990
Reduce the size of your cursor so that it matches one of the lumps in this dress

33
00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,990
strap, and you can change the size of the cursor using the square bracket keys.

34
00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,990
So the left bracket key makes it smaller, the right bracket key makes it bigger.

35
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,990
I will click and then I will Shift+Click to paint a straight line right there.

36
00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,990
I will click at that location as well, reduce the size of my cursor a little

37
00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,990
bit, click there, increase the size of my cursor a little bit, click there,

38
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,990
Shift+Click down. And so I'm working blind.

39
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,990
This is faith-based healing at this point.

40
00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:20,990
I'm just hoping that I'm doing everything right.

41
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,990
But I do have the right tool selected, the Brush tool, and I am painting with

42
00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,990
white because I can see that at the bottom of the toolbox, so everything should be working.

43
00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,990
I will go ahead and click there on that finger, maybe Shift+Click right about

44
00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,990
there, click on the knuckle, Shift+Click up a little bit, Shift+Click over. Oh!

45
00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,990
I won't be painting anything anymore because I have the selection outline going,

46
00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,990
so I have to press Ctrl+D or Command+D on a Mac to deselect the image.

47
00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,990
Let's try clicking there, Shift+Clicking up a little bit, Shift+Clicking at that location.

48
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:48,990
Let's see what we have.

49
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,990
I will Shift+Click on the layer mask so that I can see what I've done, and then

50
00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,990
I will go ahead and paint some of these rough areas away--that is, these areas

51
00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,990
that remain invisible inside of Mary's hand.

52
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,990
This is turning out to work beautifully, actually, at this point.

53
00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,990
I'll Shift+Click on the layer mask thumbnail again to turn it off, make sure it

54
00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,990
remains active, click at the bottom of the neck, Shift+Click near the top of the

55
00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,990
neck, and this one is easy, the jaw here. Just increase the size of your cursor

56
00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,990
to 200 pixels like so.

57
00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,990
Then move your cursor down just a little bit to about that location there and click.

58
00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:25,990
That should take care of that.

59
00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,990
Go ahead and Shift+Click on the layer mask thumbnail to turn it back on, so

60
00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,990
we can see what we are doing. I missed a few spots right there, so I will click on those.

61
00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,990
If you feel like anything about the image is a little bit too sharp--actually

62
00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,990
I am going to raise this hand up little bit, just by clicking at a couple of locations.

63
00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,990
But if you feel like the focus is too intense then go ahead and grab the Smudge

64
00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,990
tool, which you can get from the Blur tool flyout menu.

65
00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,990
Now I know a lot of folks will use the Blur tool to soften details inside of a mask.

66
00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,990
I prefer the Smudge tool, however.

67
00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,990
I find it to be more efficient.

68
00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,990
You can get work done very quickly just by rubbing back and forth, maybe 1 pixel,

69
00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,990
that's about it, and also it produces very organic results.

70
00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,990
I am going to go ahead and zoom out.

71
00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,990
We need to paint in the hair now but not using the Smudge tool.

72
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,990
Now, when you're painting a mask and you are painting it blind, it's very easy

73
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,990
to get mixed up as to which tool you have selected.

74
00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,990
If you start painting in with the Smudge tool, you are not going to get anything done.

75
00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,990
It does have a brush cursor, so it can be confusing.

76
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,990
So make sure to go ahead and switch back to the Brush tool, and then I'm going

77
00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,990
to Shift+Click on the layer mask to turn it off.

78
00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,990
It's still active, however,

79
00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,990
so I will click at this point in the hair and then Shift+Click down there. And

80
00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,990
you might say, well, you're painting hair with a hard brush? That's nuts.

81
00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,990
Actually, you'll see, it's going to look great.

82
00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,990
Anyway, I will paint at this location, click right there, click right about there.

83
00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,990
Actually, I am going to paint right along her hairline, not into that thin hair--

84
00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,990
I will leave that alone--and then I will Shift+Click at this location.

85
00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,990
Actually, I am going to have to reduce the size of my cursor here.

86
00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,990
I will click at the bottom of the ear and then Shift+Click up like so in

87
00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,990
order to paint in this region of face. And let's just check that I've done a decent job here.

88
00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,990
I will Shift+Click on layer mask to turn it back on.

89
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,990
Actually, this is looking pretty darn good.

90
00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,990
We'll fix the fact that it's still very sharp in a second.

91
00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,990
I'm going to zoom in.

92
00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,990
At this location, we are missing the side of her face, the side of her jaw right

93
00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,990
there, and the earring.

94
00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,990
I wish Mary had not worn earrings because they are both caught up in this guy in

95
00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:25,990
the background here.

96
00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,990
But I'm going to Shift+Click on that layer mask in order to turn it off.

97
00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,990
It's still active. Reduce the size of my cursor.

98
00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,990
The good news about her earrings are they are kind of these circle-shaped blobs.

99
00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,990
So I will click at this location, click here, reduce the size of my cursor a

100
00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,990
little bit, click right about there, paint down into this region, maybe paint a

101
00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,990
little bit around here like so, reduce the size of my cursor to about 3 pixels,

102
00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:50,990
I think is going to work.

103
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,990
So I will click and then I will Shift+ Click up like so, and then I might paint

104
00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,990
in some of this region just a little bit.

105
00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,990
Let's see what we've done here.

106
00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:00,990
That looks pretty darn good, actually.

107
00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,990
I just Shift+Clicked on the layer mask in order to turn it back on.

108
00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,990
Let's increase the size of the cursor once again.

109
00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,990
We've got a missing jaw line right there,

110
00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:10,990
so let's see what we can do.

111
00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,990
Click here, maybe Shift+Click and Shift+Click like so. Shift+Click inside the

112
00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,990
layer mask thumbnail in order to view it once again.

113
00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,990
We might have some kind of lumpy details going on.

114
00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,990
Let's see if I click at a few locations if I get slightly better results.

115
00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,990
Now, this is where we go ahead and switch back to the Smudge tool. And I am

116
00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,990
going to reduce the size of my cursor and smear this detail in just a little

117
00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,990
bit on the earring, and then I'm going to smudge this kind of back and forth on her jaw.

118
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,990
I think I went a little bit too far with that, actually.

119
00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,990
What I want is to bring this detail out right there inside of her jaw line.

120
00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,990
So you have to be careful that you don't smudge the earring too much there.

121
00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,990
Then we want to smear these guys back and forth.

122
00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,990
Let's go ahead and zoom in and out a few times here to figure out where we are

123
00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,990
at and what needs to be done.

124
00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,990
I am just smearing back and forth into hair.

125
00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,990
Now, this right there, this works out beautifully.

126
00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,990
This ends up giving us some very nice, soft, but credible hair detail up there at the top.

127
00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,990
Now, we are missing--I will go ahead and Shift+Click for a second--

128
00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,990
we are missing this little hair down here. And so what I did, I cheated at this point.

129
00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:20,990
I made a path.

130
00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,990
So I'll go to the Paths panel, and there's this path outline called hair right there.

131
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,990
Go ahead and Ctrl+Click on it here on the PC or Command+Click on a Mac in order

132
00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,990
to load it as a selection outline.

133
00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:31,990
Switch back to Layers panel.

134
00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,990
Let's press Ctrl+H or Command+H on the Mac to hide that selection, Shift+Click

135
00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,990
on a layer mask so we can see what we're doing--that turns it back on in this

136
00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,990
case--and then I will press Alt+ Backspace or Option+Delete on the Mac in order

137
00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,990
to fill it with white in the layer mask.

138
00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,990
Now, that ends up attempting to select too much of the hair, because it starts

139
00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,990
getting very light down here at the bottom, and so we need to paint that away by

140
00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,990
pressing the X key to switch my foreground color to black. By the way, the

141
00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,990
selection is still active. It's still there.

142
00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,990
I am just going to hide it again by pressing Ctrl+H. Right-click inside the

143
00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,990
image window. Make sure the Hardness is down to 0%.

144
00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,990
Well, that's weird that it is because it's the Smudge tool that I have selected.

145
00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:14,990
I almost started smudging.

146
00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,990
That's not what I want to do.

147
00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:17,990
You've got to switch to the Brush tool.

148
00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,990
I cannot tell you how many times I've made that mistake.

149
00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,990
Switch to the Brush tool, right-click with the Brush tool, reduce the Hardness

150
00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,990
value to 0%, press the Enter key a couple of times in order to hide that panel,

151
00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,990
and then click and click in order to soften that detail up.

152
00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,990
Switch back to the Smudge tool, press Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac in order to

153
00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,990
deselect the image, increase the size of the cursor a little bit, and just a

154
00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,990
little back-and-forth wiggle on that area of hair.

155
00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,990
It looks to me like we've got ourselves a final mask.

156
00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,990
Just one more thing that's kind of bugging me here.

157
00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,990
I want to sort of work on this area just a little bit,

158
00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,990
so I am going to switch to the Brush tool, and I am going to increase the size

159
00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:58,990
of my cursor slightly.

160
00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,990
I am painting with black and I've got my Hardness value cranked down to 0%, so

161
00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,990
I have to be very careful, but I just want to paint in a little softer

162
00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,990
transition right there in that region. And also, I'm going to paint in some

163
00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:12,990
soft transition up here.

164
00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,990
Now, that ends up creating this kind of weird effect, at least where my Content

165
00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,990
Aware Fill is concerned, my vegetation, where I end up having kind of this slice

166
00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,990
right there, that almost looks like it's a leftover from that guy's head.

167
00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,990
Well, what I will do to get rid of it is go to the foliage layer here, and then

168
00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,990
I will grab my Spot Healing brush, and I will paint over that area like so.

169
00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,990
That will go ahead and replace those details.

170
00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,990
And that, friends, is the final version of the image with those people in the

171
00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,990
background. And here is our newly no-people-in-the-background photo,

172
00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,990
thanks to our ability to paint some people away with the help of Content-Aware

173
00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,990
Fill, paint other people back into place with the help of the Color Range

174
00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,990
command, and finally, apply manual hand-masking using the Brush tool here

175
00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:12,000
inside Photoshop.

