How do photo editors know what’s behind a person when removing them in an image?

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For example, cropping off a person in a picture and you see a wall that was hidden behind them in the original picture.

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That’s not how it works. A camera cannot capture details that are “behind” a person. If you see a person (or any object) removed from a photo, that entire space of the image is removed. If it’s not replaced by something else (the wall in your example) the spot will just be a white space like a blank painting canvas would be. The wall that’s there in the finished edit is “cloned” from another section of the image into the white space (e.g. copy and pasted).

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