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Thanks again for the help! This is the final version (I think). 

Thoughts on this? I cloned the bottom part of the blanket to get rid of that ugly fold... 

Is this what you meant? If so, is there any trick to blending the edges, other than more careful masking? 

I'll try that, thanks.

Hi Damien,

I'm trying to merge these two photos to hide the phone with the blanket from photo 2. Third image is the best result I have, but that blanket looks fake around the fold. Do you have any ideas of how to make it look more realistic?  Photos are of my family, JPG only and reshoot in the same setting isn't possible. 

Thanks in advance.

Yeah - I was following the original background. But then I cleaned it up some more. Still not perfect, but getting to that "good enough" stage. How do I go about adding a fake shadow? I kept the real one because I couldn't get a radial gradient looking anywhere near OK there. And for the record - the non-banding background replace tute is AMAZING!! 

Here it is. Following the video tutorial you linked above.

I tried content-aware fill, didn't work. Tried solid color layer and masking - the above happened. I've now returned to the raw and I'm starting again. With the masking, too, because I seem to have lost the mask along the way somewhere. But hey, it's practice... 

This is the best I could do... but it looks weird, so I'll probably start again.

Hah! I'm trying to replace it using: http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/06/adding-plain-background.html

Buut... it's not going so well. Any ideas? 

What about the fur? Any thoughts on that? Or just clone another area or another picture in its place? Thanks

Hi there,

Here's the image I'm trying to work on. I will clean up the background as well, but for now I'm wondering what the easiest way to remove the hand is while keeping the details. I have the feeling the see-through lace will be tricky, but let's see what you say regardless.

Thanks for the help, please let me know if you need more information.

Cheers

I don't think I'm a deluxe member (but not 100% sure). Am I correct in thinking that only Deluxe members can post questions there? 

Damien, I'm not starting a new thread because it's the same technique I'm trying on a different photo. This one is tricky because the mushrooms are so white. Any ideas of what I could do to make it more realistic? Is it just more careful masking? 

Thanks Samantha! I'm not sure how that happened, I'm usually in sRGB... I'll look at the tutorial as well to make sure it doesn't happen again. 

The "very faint" was the masking - because the luminosity layer only changes the photo slightly, I couldn't tell my mask apart from the background very well. I ended up using a partially opaque colour fill layer and that helped.

This is what I ended up with. Looks good to me, but please let me know if it doesn't seem quite right. Thanks

What's the best way to see the mask while drawing it? it's very faint on the luminosity layer (but I might be missing something). I just painted  bit on the white area so you can see what I mean. 

I'd like the shadows to remain. The next step would be to try to make the shadows semi-transparent so I could replace the background, but for now I'd love to just have the background entirely white but still keep the shadows without having them look fake. 

Hi,

I've been looking online and found a few tutorials but I'm not sure what the best way is to achieve this.

My sample image is attached, I'd like the background to be pure white.

Thanks for any help.

Thanks! That looks so much better than my attempt. 

Thanks! I'm not sure what the dodge/burn needs to be like for a realistic fix, but this is where I'm at. Haven't done the colour yet... seems patchy at the moment and I can't work out which lines to keep for a realistic chin 'transition'.

Thoughts?

I'd like to make this look better somehow, but I'm pretty clueless. Any advice is much appreciated?

SOOC crop attached (jpg only, don't have raw)