Photoshop Tools & Object Removal

Once you process your image in Adobe Camera Raw (the raw window with the sliders), you can then open it up into the "regular" Photoshop interface. In this interface there are different tools to do more localized edits to small areas of the image. Here is an overview of the tools:

Also, this is sort of a fun "visual dictionary" for Photoshop terms.


PHOTOSHOP TOOLS for OBJECT REMOVAL:

• Clone
• Patch
• Healing and Spot Healing
• Fill with Content Aware

Usually the quickest/easiest is to use the Lasso Tool (L) to circle the object you want to remove (like below) and then go to EDIT > FILL WITH CONTENT AWARE. It magically erases the object!

Be sure you do the object removal on a duplicate layer of the background:

Here's a demo video of "Fill with Content Aware"/ object removal:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/photoshop-fill-content-aware.html