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Stop Fighting Your Backgrounds: A Smarter Photoshop Trick for Messy Shots
I spent three days once trying to fix a background in a client’s outdoor portrait. Clone Stamp. Healing Brush. Content-Aware Fill. I cycled through every removal tool Photoshop has like I was spinning a broken roulette wheel. The result was technically fine and visually unconvincing, with those telltale smudgy patches that scream “someone was in here messing around.” There’s a better way, and I wish I’d known it sooner. In this Matt Kloskowski tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Matt walks through how to simplify a distracting background using a technique that’s almost embarrassingly straightforward once you see it.