Removing a shadow from a light background?

[Photogaz]

How do you remove the shadow of a flash on a background? It's mainly on indoor shots on a plain background. I get a nice gradient effect against my wall, but I want to quickly remove the fairly light shadow.

Cloning takes ages especially with subtle colour changes in the image.

In Photoshop CS5, the content aware seems to take samples from the persons head and put them in place of the shadow. I don't get why it can't take the wall and do it properly.

Ofcourse I can cut out the background completely, but I want to keep the natural look of the background.

The shadow isn't a harsh deep shadow, I use multiple flashes but there is still a faint shadow against the wall.

 

[Edsport]

Have you tried cutting everything from the photo so that you have only the wall and the part that you want filled so that it can't take the persons head? Then copy/paste that image into your full image and using eraser or history brush to make the image to the way you want it...

 

[tiler65]

Can you post an example of it just to see the extent of the shadow as there are a few ways to do it.