How to Remove Unwanted Elements in a Photo Using Photoshop

The digital camera is such an amazing invention because you can get photos on demand and view them on demand without having to pay ten plus dollars for a roll of film and then worry about taking an unwanted picture and having one less picture available for something good. But there is a down fall to the digital camera; people go picture crazy! Before you know it, your entire camera is packed full of photos that you have no idea what to do with. Well, let's get those photos printed! Maybe you have an unwanted element in the photo but you don't want to crop it out of the photo because the picture would be smaller. Today I am going to teach you how to get rid of elements in a photo using photoshop. Here we go...

Step one - First open your picture. Do this by going to the top-left of the screen and selecting "File" then scroll down to "Open" and select. Highlight the photo you would like to use (do this by a single right click of the mouse), click "OK" or "Open" to insert the photo.

Step two - Now that you have the photo you would like to use, select the "Clone Stamp Tool" located in the toolbox. Once you have the "Clone Stamp Tool", move the brush to a clean area of the image near the element you would like to remove. For example: If there is a picture frame on the wall and you don't want it there, you would click the wall (not the picture frame because that's what you want to remove). Once you have a clean placement by the element, you are going to press and hold down the "Alt" key (if you are using Windows) or the "Option" key (if you are using MAC). While you are still holding down the key that fits your operating system, simply click the clean area by the image with the cursor. This will clone the image you would like to use to cover your unwanted element.

Step three - Once you have pressed and held down the "Alt" or "Option" key and clicked the image you would like to clone, strart to make light-short brush strokes over the element you would like to cover. If is best to go slow and short with the strokes so you know when to change the clone again. All you have to do to change the clone is once again hold down the "Alt" or "Option" key, click with the cursor on a clean area of the image and go back to brushing over the element. You will find that you probably have to do this a couple times, depending how large the unwanted element is, just so it looks real.

And that is all you have to do to remove an unwanted element from a photo using photoshop!