Articles: Editing Backgrounds

Various tutorials about editing backdrops and skies and other backgrounds.

Using Photoshop’s Gradient layer

Gradients are very versatile and really important.

Using a gradient layer to fix a sky

Removing a power line without cloning.

Orange gradient for a dusk sky

Fixing blown out skies at golden hour.

Adding a little bit of blue to a white sky (Elements)

Add some subtle colour to blown out skies with PSE.

Sky replacement method

Of all the methods for sky swaps I’ve ever tried, this is the winner.

Achieving white backgrounds in your portraits

Make a pure high key white backdrop.

Adding a little bit of colour to a white sky

Gently fix blown out skies with this simple method.

Blurring a background (false DOF)

How to create fake DOF when your aperture wasn't correct.

Blanket fade tutorial

An essential method for all baby photographers.

Levels (or Curves) eyedropper for changing colours

Quickly and accurately changing colours.

Preventing banding in backdrops

How to avoid stripes in skies and seamless backdrops.

Fading a background into a floor

How to blend a wall smoothly into a floor.

Replacing a background behind hair

It's so easy you'll fall off your chair.

Creating a fake blanket with texture

Demonstration: Replacing a blanket background.

 


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