How do people photoshop something out of a picture without there just being a blank space where the previous image stood?

Question

I don’t get it… the light isn’t reflected off the object into the lenses, right? So how is there an image waiting behind the person you just photoshopped out?

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Answer 1

The missing areas can be filled by using the clone brush to select similar areas, layered and feathered in etc. Depends on the size of the missing portion.