This shot came from Simone A. Thank you, Simone!

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Simone wanted to get rid of the people in the background. PSE has a tool called scene cleaner where you can literally click stuff you want to nix, but you have to have a photo from the exact same spot with nothing in the area you want to clean up. Which is why I take sooo many pictures and even keep the bad ones. You never know how they can be used.

{Method}

I used the healing brush tool to erase the people. For example, I selected some sky next to the spot I wanted to clean and then cleaned it. I was making hundreds of re-selections since the colour of the sky changes throughout. The railing was really difficult. After using the healing brush, there were some lines between the different hues of blue, grey, etc, so I used the smudging fingerto just smooth them out.

Time to edit: 50 minutes

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