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The white background has become a standard in the photography world and for good reasons. You can pick up a white seamless background for less than $100, turning any space into a photo studio.
Backdrop paper is also ideal for cutting people out of their backgrounds or eliminating distractions. Many popular celebrity portraits were photographed in hotel rooms using a roll of white seamless paper.
Because your subjects will be standing on a giant sheet of white paper, chances are the paper is going to get dirty. In today’s episode we show you how to clean a backdrop in Photoshop.
Clean Backdrop using Median Filter
The fastest way to clean a background in Photoshop is by using Photoshop’s Filters. We found that the Median filter works very well and saves a ton of time. Go to Filter – Noise – Median and choose a radius that will make all the dirt vanish. Be sure to do this on a copy of your background layer so you can use a layer mask and just have this effect show up over the background.
If you have any areas that the Median Filter missed, take care of them with the healing brush tool and you are good to go!
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Phantastic tutorial!
That took me like 10 hours before and it didn't get near as good as this method that took me about 10 minutes. Saved my life! Thanks!
Show us something for Banding
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Thank you!! You just saved me a tone of work!
You are a magician!!!
the KING AARON !!!
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Thank you so much! This video has helped me a TON!
I recommend this with sequence separation technique. I keep layers with Median and Colour between High Frequency and Low Frequency. It helps to keep grain and more natural feeling of the image. It's something you will see on high quality print.
Fantastic technique, I can't wait to share this with my students! Thank you very much!
This is an awesome technique! I can totally use this on my backgrounds!!
Awesome tut! Thanks for the info
Thank you so much for this! Saved me so much time cleaning up a background where I used my studio wall. My white studio wall worked out great but then you could see the drywall texture throughout the image. Wanted to keep the soft shadow my light created and this worked perfectly in cleaning up the image and keeping the shadow!!
yesterday i had an interview as a image edititer for a big company. one part of the interview was to show how i clean a background and the knowledge of this video, saved my butt. thank you so much for your freaking awesome content
Nice! i have been using select / mask Gaussian blur to do this; edges are always a challenge and often Gaussian didn't 'blend' things quite right. This method seems to help alleviate those problems. I admit I didn't even know about Median (Photoshop has so many pieces!) … will try it next time!
I LOVE YOU, PHLEARN!!!! YOU JUST SAVED ME COUNTLESS HOURS. MWAH MWAH MWAH
Such a great teacher Love this channel!!!!!
woooow THANK YOUUU!!!! You saved my day 😉
Aaron, nice job, but what about when you have a colored background where there seems to be multiple shades of the same color, and you are trying to make it all even?
thank you sooo much
I see a tons of banding background, is that ok?
this is holy grail guys. Everyone who has ever in their life spent hours on cleaning those goddamn backdrops know this pain. And what a relief to finally find an easy and functional way to avoid spending hours on that!!!
just what I need for that pesky ingrain wallpaper
Hi is there a tutorial where you teach on how to remove un wanted shadows such as shadows in the back when a photo is shot with a front facing flash ?thanks
thank you so much for your tutorials!
This is great for interiors as well when the walls might have been a bit grubby! Just what i needed, thanks Phlearn!
Nice technique
Thanks! Well done!
Hi, I've used this technique but I find that if I light the background so that it goes off white or has a gradient then this creates banding especially if you add a curve after. Anyone else get that or a way to stop the banding. Tried adding noise but may not be suitable for the image.
perfect. Thank you very much!
I really enjoy yr tutorials. atleast that's my own school for nw
thank you
Thank you. 🙂
10/10
I love your tutorials.
I have a photo taken on a phone of my dad that sadly passed away recently. It was the last picture of me and dad but I was in front of a window and a lot of light has blown out a lot of pixels. The photo is low res and and quite bad resolution. Have you done a tuturial that I can view and try and clean up my picture? I would love to be able to clean up and frame it. Can you please help?
thank you thank you 🙏
When you see him paint the banding away, that was incredible.
hello. that´s great. thaks…what about a black background…thanks for your help
This is F'ing amazing! (can I say that?!) Thanks PHPEARN!
i wish i had watched this ages ago!!
Just what I needed. Thank you very much!!
so GOOD !
Thank you so much. I just spent the better part of the day removing "lint" from my panne velvet backdrop. This is insane. Much appreciated.
Amazing. Like so many others are saying here, this will save me hours. Thank You.
Please keep in mind many off us don't use a Mac. Do you happen to have the shortcuts for a PC?
Great tutor! this video saves me a lot of time! i have 1k+ photos like in the video! now i can finish it earlier! kudos!!! =)
Mind blown.