Articles: Editing Backgrounds
Various tutorials about editing backdrops and skies and other backgrounds.
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.
Blanket fade tutorial
An essential method for all baby photographers.
Achieving white backgrounds in your portraits
Make a pure high key white backdrop.
Adding a little bit of blue to a white sky (Elements)
Add some subtle colour to blown out skies with PSE.
Levels (or Curves) eyedropper for changing colours
Quickly and accurately changing colours.
Adding a little bit of colour to a white sky
Gently fix blown out skies with this simple method.
Sky replacement method
Of all the methods for sky swaps I’ve ever tried, this is the winner.
Replacing a background behind hair
It's so easy you'll fall off your chair.
Orange gradient for a dusk sky
Fixing blown out skies at golden hour.
Using Photoshop’s Gradient layer
Gradients are very versatile and really important.
Creating a fake blanket with texture
Demonstration: Replacing a blanket background.
Using a gradient layer to fix a sky
Removing a power line without cloning.
Preventing banding in backdrops
How to avoid stripes in skies and seamless backdrops.
Blue or green screen for background replacement?
What's the best way?.
Blurring a background (false DOF)
How to create fake DOF when your aperture wasn't correct.