Photoshop and even backdrops

<p>Hey,<br>

What are some methods of evening out, or blurring, a backdrop in a photo? I mean a single colour backdrop, such as paper of fabric. I tried applying a gaussian blur to it, but these a really bad sort of "banding" effect...</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

Adding just a touch of gaussian noise can fix the banding effect. You often don't even need to add enough

that it is really visible to make the banding go away.

<p>^ Exactly what Mark says. I usually lasso around the subject, feather about 5-10 pixels, copy the background to a new layer, then apply gaussian about 30-40 (depends on your camera / photo's resolution), and then I just mask out any bleeding onto the subject, then I add about 4% of noise to this layer and it takes care of the banding. </p>

<p>I usually try to avoid this as much as possible, by lighting the background properly to begin with, but with portable background stands and papers and whatever sometimes you just get those kinks.</p>

Use the -Clarify with -Sharpness tool in Lightroom with auto mask on.

 

Easy peazy.

<p>Could u expand a bit on that auto mask approach? Thanks.</p>

<p>I just a quick rough example.<br>

Unedited with wrinkles.</p><div></div>

<p>Settings.</p><div></div>

<p>,</p>

<p>With blurred background using auto mask. And its minus Clarity not Clarify like I always write(ignore that).</p><div></div>

<p>Add color to the brush to change the background entirely.</p><div></div>

<p>Red color setting</p>

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