eli5 : How do people photoshop things out of pictures without knowing what the background is?

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Do people have to take TWO pictures at the same angle in order to photoshop things out? How do they know what the background looks like?

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> Do people have to take TWO pictures at the same angle in order to photoshop things out?

Ideally this is what you would do. Get a photo from the same spot both with the subject and thing to be shopped out (a light stand maybe) and a photo with nothing there to provide a background. This second shot is known as a ‘Clean Plate’.

But otherwise yeah, you make up the background from the context of the photo. It doesnt have to actually reflect reality, just look right in the photo.

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