Articles: Editing Backgrounds
Various tutorials about editing backdrops and skies and other backgrounds.
Blanket fade tutorial
An essential method for all baby photographers.
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.
Sky replacement method
Of all the methods for sky swaps I’ve ever tried, this is the winner.
Fading a background into a floor
How to blend a wall smoothly into a floor.
Achieving white backgrounds in your portraits
Make a pure high key white backdrop.
Preventing banding in backdrops
How to avoid stripes in skies and seamless backdrops.
Levels (or Curves) eyedropper for changing colours
Quickly and accurately changing colours.
Adding a little bit of blue to a white sky (Elements)
Add some subtle colour to blown out skies with PSE.
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?.
Replacing a background behind hair
It's so easy you'll fall off your chair.
Demonstration: Extending a studio floor and backdrop
Step-by-step instructions.
Using a gradient layer to fix a sky
Removing a power line without cloning.
Creating a fake blanket with texture
Demonstration: Replacing a blanket background.