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.
Blue or green screen for background replacement?
What's the best way?.
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.
Demonstration: Extending a studio floor and backdrop
Step-by-step instructions.
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.