Rescuing A Bad Photo

Finally, we’ll use the Patch Tool to get rid of the mark on the wall behind him by drawing a selection around it and then dragging that selection to the wall above to get our sample.

There you have our finished photo, from this:

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Rescuing A Bad Photo - Fig. 1

To this:

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Rescuing A Bad Photo - Fig. 10

I still firmly believe that any well-shot photo is going to look a lot better than anything you have to put this much work into to correct, but most photos are salvagable and we’ve gone a long way toward saving this one. If I were going to output this to print, I would likely still make some more adjustments h ere and there, but for the purposes of this tutorial, I think it does well to illustrate just how you can take a bad photo and drag a decent picture out of it.

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Added Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 9:59 pm under Photo Effects.