Best way to PP out background wrinkles

What is the best way to photoshop out small shadows in the background caused by wrinkles in seemless? Attached is an example.
Thanks.

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Clone tool.
Create a new blank layer above the image layer.
Select the Clone Stamp then option click or Alt click (PC) on an area you want to use to clone over the wrinkle.

After Opt/Alt clicking then go ahead and start clicking over the wrinkle.

AFTER doing the clone thing OR instead of it.

Magic Wand to select the red.

Copy - paste , which creates a new layer of red only

Gaussian blur (Notice that the blur extends over the subject, creating a red fuzziness all the way around her - don't worry about it.)

NEXT STEPS ARE IMPORTANT

Select/reselect

Inverse the selection

Edit/Cut - this step removes the red fuzziness.

- I use this a lot to smooth out pixelated skies

Rad

Radtech1 wrote in post #3166616
AFTER doing the clone thing OR instead of it.

Magic Wand to select the red.

Copy - paste , which creates a new layer of red only

Gaussian blur (Notice that the blur extends over the subject, creating a red fuzziness all the way around her - don't worry about it.)

NEXT STEPS ARE IMPORTANT

Select/reselect

Inverse the selection

Edit/Cut - this step removes the red fuzziness.

- I use this a lot to smooth out pixelated skies

Rad

This worked really well. I had tried to do this before you posted this but was having trouble keeping the blur off of the girl. I missed the Select/Reselect/Cut steps. Thanks Rad.

OP here is the results from Rad's tip using Gausian Blur set to 10 pixels (you might need more on the original). Some slight jpeg artifacts from saving as well.

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oh! Many thanks to you guys. I figured there had to be a better way than simple clone tool. I actually tried a guassian blur but didn't have all the steps down. Again thanks!

In2Photos wrote in post #3166806
This worked really well. I had tried to do this before you posted this but was having trouble keeping the blur off of the girl. I missed the Select/Reselect/Cut steps. Thanks Rad.

You could "save the selection" before the blur if it is a complicated selection so you can save time and guarantee to have the same selection as before. Nice tip Rad.

rammy wrote in post #3167685
You could "save the selection" before the blur if it is a complicated selection so you can save time and guarantee to have the same selection as before. Nice tip Rad.

I did, but wasn't sure what to do with it after that.

Spot healing brush should work fine too, quick and easy.

tim wrote in post #3167942
Spot healing brush should work fine too, quick and easy.

I tried that too, but in this image there are too many spots. Including the dirt around her feet.

Radtech1 wrote in post #3166616
AFTER doing the clone thing OR instead of it.

Magic Wand to select the red.

Copy - paste , which creates a new layer of red only

Gaussian blur (Notice that the blur extends over the subject, creating a red fuzziness all the way around her - don't worry about it.)

NEXT STEPS ARE IMPORTANT

Select/reselect

Inverse the selection

Edit/Cut - this step removes the red fuzziness.

- I use this a lot to smooth out pixelated skies

Rad

Thats Kick Ass!

Ive red this befor but when I tried it I used Ctrl-J to get the new layer but it wouldnt let me reselect the selection.

Here is my take. (Now that I am at home),

I did just as I described as above, and it ended out very similar to what Mike, The Keeper demonstrated, but I did change two small things.

1) I did, in fact, use the clone tool first, to get as even a starting point as I could.

2) On the blurred layer, I erased back some around her feet (very soft edge, 20% opacity, back and forth). I did that to retain the shadows that she casts. It seems less "floating in space" this way - well, to me at least.

On, one thing about doing skies. You MUST be in 16 bit mode, otherwise you will get posterization.

Rad

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tim wrote in post #3167942
Spot healing brush should work fine too, quick and easy.

IMPO - your over complicating things - as tim said Spot Healing brush would also be my tool of choice.

Take some time and learn how to use it - start off with a low opacity and you'll be all set.

Originally I tried using the spot healing brush I was not satisfied. If you look at the original there are quite a lot of wrinkle marks in the background among other things. I felt like I was chasing myself using the healing tools alone. The Gaussian blur is much more even and takes care of some of the little imperfections seen in the background as well as some of the noise.

Hey, DavidPhoto, great lighting on this picture!
May I ask how you lit it?

Thanks. I wasn't too crazy about the red background and this lighting seemed a little too much to me. We changed it around several times but if I recall correctly at this point we had two symmetric rim lights with large softboxes behind the subject on either side, and a small parabolic high up to camera right.
We ended up turning off the rim lights and just leaving the "streetlight" up high and it worked much better.