How to Remove Almost Anything from an Image in Photoshop

Want to get rid of a datestamp? Stray Wire? Telephone Pole? Bird? Other small stuff like that? Here's how.

If you're a bit more advanced and looking to remove an object that takes up a third of your photo you should skip ahead to this page on removing the downright impossible.

Part 1

A review of the stamp tool and how you're probably using it wrong:

Part 2

How to maintain solid edges when using the stamp tool in photoshop, combined with the pen tool, masks, and anything else I can throw into the mix.

Part 3

A focus on the content aware fill, and how to take advantage of it in Photoshop for the first round of fixes before taking out the heavy guns such as the stamp tool.

Part 4

While it's easy to remove 95% of what you find in any given image, that last 5% is the difference between almost there, and good enough to actually use. This is how to remove that final 5% using the stamp tool in Photoshop, as well as methods such as the transform tool, warping in the transform tool, duplicating, and other nonsense like that.

Part 5

Taking an image from 'I think that's good enough' to 'holy sh** that's perfect' is the hardest step, and gives you the least satisfaction. It's where I spend 80% of my time, so figured you should get a nice 10 minute sample of what's involved. In Photoshop it's not a matter of knowing the little known tools - it's a matter of using the stamp tool and copy paste methods like no one else.

And now that you can do that, let's move on to an example that's so difficult most would write it off as impossible.

Next: How to remove the impossible from an image in Photoshop