How to clone out / remove objects in Photoshop using gradients

Removing / Cloning difficult objects in Photoshop
Photoshop gives you a TON of ways to remove objects from your images, the most obvious being spot removal or healing brush along with content aware fill and others.
These way work a LOT of the time but in complex situations they will often give you less than optimum or usable results. In the images today I show you how you can quickly get great results without using the close stamp tool or other methods and instead turn to Gradients and layer masks.
This is a great technique if you are retouching images that have gradient backgrounds where you need to remove something.
The basic technique goes as follows:
1) Create a new layer
2) Draw a selection around the object (include extra space around the object)
3) fill with a gradient (you will need to edit the gradient)
4) Add noise to that gradient, generally about 1-1.5%
5) Add a layer mask
6) Use a large brush, set to black to remove the mask and blend the gradient
Hope you guys find this helpful! Thanks as always for watching and talk to you tomorrow!
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[@TerryStoa]

Anxious to try removal using the Gradient tool. Nice tips.

[@BillNicholsTV]

A good amount of practice to get our gradient seletion right but it's a huge help!

[@svetimarko2]

Thanks man, content-aware fill did the trick here.

[@BillNicholsTV]

You're welcome!

[@gustavocampos1969]

Very good technic. Thanks, Bill!

[@BillNicholsTV]

Thanks Gustavo!

[@timgrist9649]

Great video!

[@Tsagkaraki82]

At last!Thanx ...Love u :)

[@edwardfelton7401]

Nice technique! I have never removed debris that way before. I am a big fan of the patch tool with a bit of fine tuning after for smaller areas. Holds on to the image noise as well!
Thanks for the vids.

[@BillNicholsTV]

Thanks Edward