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Occasionally my phone will ring at about 4:00 in the morning with someone requesting that I eliminate someone. Now, let's not speak of this again, but I'm going to tell you how it is done. Now, what they will do is send me a photograph like this and ask me to remove somebody. What we're going to do is use the clone stamp tool to do this. This is the tool right here we're going to use. The way it works is it stamps or rather it samples an area. For example, let's say we want to sample this blue area here. We can then paste that area or paint over the pixels that are in another space. Let's go ahead and give it a shot. Now, the way this tool works, by the way, is you have to do two things. First of all, you have to choose a region. Then, before you can actually use the tool, for example, see this? If I just click and start to try to paint, I get a dialog box. It's saying it cannot use the clone stamp tool because the area has not been defined. We have to actually option click to tell the tool how to work. So let's go ahead and give it a shot. We're going to alt or option click in this region. When we do that, we get a different crosshair. I'm going to click and let go of the mouse, and now I can start to paint away parts of the person that I don't want to see here. Now I'm going to do this exam. I'm going to just click a little further away this time so I don't get so much of the smearing. So let's say I want to click here. I'll option click here, move my mouse down here, and now I'm painting these pixels with these pixels. How cool is that? Now, of course, I would take much, much more time and care doing this in real life because this is an operation that you really want to match the pixels precisely. You also try to move the mouse in one or two directions. You want to move left and right or up and down. You want to kind of stay with that. You don't want to go like this when you're painting with this tool, if you can help it. So I'm going to keep going and once again I'm being a little sloppy, but as you can see, the person that we've been contracted to eliminate is vanishing. I'm going to keep going here. The cool thing about this is we can also clone other things. In just a moment, I'm going to show you how we can put some of these trees over the area where this snowboarder used to be. Of course, when somebody asks you about the whereabouts of this person, your answer is going to be, "I don't recall." Now I'm going to come over here and click, option click or alt click, and I'm going to once again continue and I'm going to just paint away some of these areas, sampling different parts. I'm going to fill in some of this missing snow. The reason you want to go to different regions is you don't want to give people the feeling that there was something there that was computer-generated or removed with a computer. You want to just kind of go all over the place so that you can have a more realistic look. Now, as you see there, I went a little too far, so I'll just go ahead and get rid of that. If you mess up, just either command or control Z or choose a different region to paint from. Now we have no evidence that there was anybody even there. Now let's go ahead and do the same thing with the tree. I'm going to click once again, option or control click, move my mouse over here, and now I'm going to paint some of this tree area. I'm going to do the same thing, I'm going to go to this branch area, option, control click, and now I'm going to paint in some branches to extend my tree line out. Being very careful, I'm going to go over here again, option click, bring out some more branches. As you can see, it's a very cool technique. What you can do with this is get rid of things that are unwanted in an image and you can simply paste whatever you want to put in that area spot by simply option or alt clicking and just painting those pixels over with new pixels. So as you can see here, eliminating someone is quite easy to do. Just make sure that you use Photoshop to do it.