Now the next step is to use a bit of Photoshop magic to completely remove Paul McCartney from the background to make it look like as if he was never here in the first place. So to do that, we're going to go back to the paths tab, select Paul and the shadow, drag it to the selection circle. Go back to layers, making sure the background layer is selected. And now we're going to go to Select, Modify, expand, I'm going to be expanding it by five pixels. And then we're going to Edit, Fill, and making sure the Content Aware option is selected. I'm going to press OK. And voila is as if we used a magic trick and now, Photoshop has automatically filled in the background for us.
Now it's not perfect, so we're going to need to manually fix these ourselves, but it's not bad. It's a great time saver. So in order to fix this manually, I'm going to be selecting my stamp tool over here or by clicking s on the keyboard. As a shortcut. I'm going to be increasing the size of my stamp of there's too much lower a bit lower a little bit more okay though, and the way you stamp too, is by clicking out on the area you want to sample so I want to sample this shadow hit and I'm going to be using it on the areas I want to stamp to. So that wants to get this pavement over here to look like the color.
The same color as here. Going to talk in this way Hey, like this. Again, it doesn't have to look 100% right just needs to look roughly right, in this case, because it's going to be at the background so nobody can really tell anyway, if it's not 100% right. Just darken this bit even more zoom out to see if it looks okay. I'm going to be stamping this part as well. No, that looks a bit better.
Now and I'm just going to be fixing this pavement a bit more. So that it looks like it's part of the whole thing instead of these blows. Maybe I'll do the same thing over here whoops. And maybe I'll fix this separate crossing a little bit by filling it to the edge here. I'll do that. Just so then a bit more.
So, this part may actually take a while but I think It's quite fun. And now you're done. It's as if Paul McCartney was never a part of the Beatles. Okay, so to save you from repetition, I've gone ahead and removed all the Beatles members from the background. And in addition to that, I've also filled in the background of where the arm would be. So the reason for that is that when I move the arm in After Effects afterwards, you will actually see the fabric behind the arm just as you would in real life.
And the other thing here very specific to the this project, is how I managed to fill in the rest of the car here the photo I can be so here because that would be quite difficult to do, just with a stamp. So what I did is that I cheated a little I googled imaged Abbey Road without Beatles and found this image. And what I did was that I just cropped this half of the car and placed it on to the background. Now we could have just done that from the start and uses images of background. But where would be the fun in that hand, I wanted to show you this very cool technique in the first place.