copying background color

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guybc
Dec 27, 2003
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Having cut an object from behind a person’s head,I’m trying to fill the space with the same background colour as the sky. I cannot seem to get a match from the swatch. Is there a way that PSE2 can ‘copy’ the exact colour?
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Terri_Foster
Dec 27, 2003
I would use the clone tool.
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Wendy_E_Williams
Dec 28, 2003
There a quite a few ways of doing this. Another way is:

Using the Lasso (set to new selection … set this using the boxes at the top of the screen) make a rough selection around the area you need to fill then move your cursor to the centre of the selection. The cursor will change from a lasso to a pointer and a box shape … you can use this to move the selection onto a patch of sky that matches your colour. Then do EDIT>COPY … next do EDIT>PASTE and you should then have a patch of sky that matches your space.

Use MOVE to move it into the space and if it is not a perfect match you can use the clone tool to tidy it up.

Wendy
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Jodi_Frye
Dec 28, 2003
You can also use the ‘eyedropper’ tool to sample the exact blue and then paint in the selected area.

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