Photoshop How-To: When You Can't Cut It Out, Cover It Up

This tutorial is courtesy of the Russell Brown Show.
When masking gets tough, sometimes just covering up the problem is the only solution. Photographer Scott Copeland presented me with a wedding photo that was perfect — except for the beer bottle and speaker interrupting the mood. The healing brush worked on the beer bottle, but the speaker was a much bigger challenge. The healing brushes couldn’t handle it, I couldn’t mask it out, and even Photoshop CS5’s amazing new content-aware fill feature didn’t solve the problem.

But I eventually figured out the answer, and in this tutorial, I’ll show you how I came up with this final image:

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