Skill Up: Fusion-Photoshop Painting/Cleaning Workflow – Part 2

How to use Photoshop for painting out objects (and exporting for Fusion)

In Part One of this series, you learned how to use a clean plate from Photoshop and track it in Resolve Fusion to remove an object. But we skipped the ‘create a clean plate in Photoshop’ step.

In this Insight, you learn the raster-painting techniques I used to remove that object. We’ll go over a number of color and setup options for your working canvas, and also explore many paint tools and blend modes. This is a full step-by-step walkthrough of my entire process.

Key takeaways from this Insight

By the end of this Insight, you should understand how to:

• Set up a Photoshop project for paint work on a film plate
• Use Photoshop’s content-aware tools, clone, layer copies, and regular paint strokes to paint out an object and fill in missing details, along with many tips and tricks
• Organize layers and know how to export multiple layers for use in Fusion

External Links

• Affinity Photo – A capable and inexpensive Photoshop alternative.

Related Mixing Light Insights

• Mixing Light Search Results: “Object Removal” – Various Mixing Light Insights covering different aspects and tools used for object removal in DaVinci Resolve.
• Series: Object Removal in Resolve Fusion – This series includes an earlier 2-part series on object removal in Fusion by Jamie Dickinson.

Questions or Comments? Leave a comment!

Have you done similar paint tasks before? Have you used other paint software (Affinity, Corel Painter, etc.) and would like to share your experience?

– Bernd