Photoshop Q - removing something to leave white background

How do I remove the bottom part of this clamp so that it looks like a 'C' and so there is white in it's place that matches the rest of the white background?

Using Photoshop, select the area with one of the many selection tools - make it mask and then you can replace the background with whatever you wish.

I'd recommend googling for PS + mask + tutorial - as there are tons of lessons using tons of different methods to do what you want to do.

Cloning and, if you have CS5 Content Aware Fill -- if you don't have experience with cloning in LR you might want to check out some tutorials or buy a basic PS book on using those tools. Check out Lynda.com as the most recommended site for online tutorials, or Google "Photoshop clone":

http://www.google.com …pbx=1&fp=956ab5​02b015b9a1

or other word combos including "turorial", "instruct" and such

Layer 1 is your picture. I made a large 20 px fethered selection around the top half of the C-clamp leaving lots of room between the clamp and the edge of the selection so it would be easy to blend in the "white"

Copied and pasted it to a new layer (Ctrl J). Flipped it (transform) and lined it up.

Put a new layer between them to clone out the unneeded parts of your picture. You should usually always clone on a separate layer so that it's easy to go back and fix mistakes.

I cloned directly on the Top of C layer at a very low opacity to blend in the edges of the "white" that I selected to the "white" that it was pasted above. Maybe a total of three minutes to do.

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