How do you "smear" colors across a certain area? To make backgrounds look natural.

[guest273]

Hey there!

I just don't have the Vocabulary to do a proper google search since I don't know how this process is called.

Basically:

Here (on the left) is the briefcase that they used in the movie Pulp Fiction to make it shine when the character Vincent opens it.

I want to remove the area with the lightbulb & its components and only leave the authentic briefcase.

     

So, I cut out the area with the lightbulb but now how do I "smear" the nearby colors to make the briefcase look naturally empty?

I think that splitting the coloring-in in multiple 'sectors' would make sense - one tone for the 'bottom' of the base, one for the 'right side' of the case and the last for the 'backside'.

In the end I want to use this 500x500 px image in a 1000x1000 4 panel meme that I am making, as I want to place an object 'inside' (over) the brief case. So it doesn't need to look perfect, only decent enough for a person looking at said image for about 3-5 seconds to not notice that the background coloring looks totally whack.

Any help is appreciated! I plan to check back here in a day or two.

Thank you,
guest273

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I want it to look better than the briefcase edits in these pictures:

https://i.imgflip.com/3g8ss8.jpg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/news...3/87b.jpeg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/news...6/221.jpeg