I’ve been touching up the grass in a Photo for the last half an hour (It’s a large photo). You’d think that the key to nice and natural looking grass would be the color. It’s not. You can make grass just about any shade of green you’d like. Brown works too, as do a lot of yellows. Texture is the true key. If you get the texture of the grass right it looks like grass, even if the colors a little off. If you get the color perfect but the texture a little off, it looks like some bad science experiment. I had enough nice grass to use the Healing Brush and a little of the Stamp Tool to get the right texture throughout.

I had to be careful to match the textures though. The texture changes over the expanse of lawn depending on the lighting and the distance. If I have the wrong texture at the wrong distance, or in the wrong lighting conditions, the whole effect is ruined.