Removing a logo using the Patch Tool in Photoshop

In this video we'll begin removing a logo with the patch tool. Let's start by opening up our file and for this video we'll be using the water bottle with logo jpeg.

As you can see looking at this image we have a water bottle in the ivy however this logo on the bottom of the water bottle is a little distracting so throughout this video we'll be working to remove it. As always let's start by creating a new layer from our background and let's title this water bottle without logo and let's rename our background layer water bottle original and hit ENTER. Finally we'll lock this image and work with the water bottle without logo.

In the last video we went over the spot healing brush tool and healing brush tool and that's one way we might be able to tackle this logo therefore let's try it with the healing brush tool and we can see the pros and cons of using this method. Let's next zoom into our image and align it so we can see the logo and next using the healing brush what we can essentially do is drag unfortunately we got an error so if you'll remember with the healing brush tool that means that we didn't use the ALT key to first set where we want our healing brush to draw the pixels from so we'll click ok and now we'll assign an area. Let's use ALT and we'll pick up here we're going to try and match the shade of white for this and now if I drag over it you can see that we can start to remove this logo I'll hit undo there and now for this if I start dragging over the eight we can see it's not quite the exact same shade so hit CTRL Z to undo and I'll set a new area using the ALT key drag over the eight using multiple strokes I'll reset where it's pulling pixels from with ALT and it's just a process of dragging over if we start to remove some of this line below we can do that and really using this method we can see it's kind of a process of trying to match the same colors we can make it work by constantly using ALT but it's definitely a process and we can see that the white doesn't always match up exactly so let's actually stop this for now and create a new layer and we'll go over another method let's create a new layer by dragging our water bottle original into new layer and let's rename this water bottle patch tool next let's hide our water bottle without logo and we'll use this layer to work on it finally let's unlock it the patch tool can be found in the same tools gallery as our healing brush tool so we'll go to our tools bar and select the patch tool and the way that the patch tool really shines is we're actually able to draw around the object or image that we want to remove and allow photoshop to do the work to remove it successfully from our image so with the patch tool all we're going to do is simply click and drag a line around the image we want to remove then we'll simply drag this over to the pixels that we want to remove it from or sample from and what it's going to do is blend the layer of what we sampled from where it's going helping to match the shading we'll hit CTRL D to deselect our one from the logo is completely gone flawlessly next let's work on the eight if we draw a line with the patch tool around the eight and then next we're going to want to drag this image to pull from pixels right above it this is a similar white and release finally we'll hit CTRL D to deselect the area and we can see that our eight is removed let's now keep working through this we'll draw another bounding box around the line and the way that this works is if we drag pixels that are similar enough it'll help with the shading and help blend the layers to make it look consistent however if we pull from an area that doesn't look the same for example this leaf over here and release it'll do the best to make it look natural but obviously this isn't going to work let's hit CTRL Z to undo and we'll simply use the patch tool to pull from pixels above and hit CTRL Z to deselect and finally let's remove this bottom logo i'm going to do this logo in two parts one here and one here and be really careful to not pull the leaf into our patch tool area let's drag it up and deselect with CTRL D and now we can see that we have a little bit of a fog in this area so let's try it again we'll hit CTRL Z to undo and CTRL Z again and now let's zoom in a little closer so we can get very specific about this and let's just start by drawing the new patch tool area i get really close to the a and really try and hug the logo next let's drag it up above maybe with a little more shade on the right side so it's similar and i'll release and the only thing we're left with right here is a little bit of a smudge on the right it's an easy fix we'll use the patch tool again for it and drag above where there's a little more shadow and hit CTRL D to deselect now if we zoom out we can see that our image is removed let's zoom in a little more to get rid of these smudges on the image we'll use the patch tool to draw a circle around it drag it over draw a circle drag it over let's do one more and hit CTRL D on our keyboard to deselect and CTRL MINUS (-) on the keyboard to zoom out obviously with the patch tool you can go and fix every single imperfection but for this video we simply wanted to remove the logo looking at our full image now we can see that we have a water bottle without a logo and it's a little bit less distracting allowing us to focus more on the ambience and the feel of this image finally let's compare it to our original photo and we can see that the logo pretty much disappears in our new image nicely done finally let's save our work using CTRL S on the keyboard to save and with a photoshop file we'll simply add adjusted and hit ENTER to save and maximize compatibility enter in the next video we'll be separating an image from the background see you there