Rejected again. I thought I finally had a clue, but it appears I'm still missing the point. This one Sushi (all are reduce to 640) was rejected for background cleanup. The advise was use the burn tool.

I tried that and it just makes really ugly dark blobs. I was using brush, clone, eraser and for de-speckling, magic healing tool. (I've given up on paint bucket because it usually makes things worse, but maybe it's just me?)

The foreground texture was intentional. Is that a mistake?



I tried Plexiglas last weekend, and it's too reflective. Might be nice if used for intended reflections.

Any tips from the pros here on cleaning up spots, flares, hot spots and backgrounds, so I get nice clean isolations?

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