1. Do Now: Take out your notebook and a pen. How can the Clone Stamp tool help you retouch a photo? Good Morning Do Now: Take out your notebook and a pen. How can the Clone Stamp tool help you retouch a photo? Good Morning Aim: What other tools can help you to retouch a photograph? Mr. Spaterella Technology Nov. 30

2. Clone Stamp Tool The Clone Stamp tool is a retouching tool that lets you copy and paste pixels from one area of an image to another area. Retouching is the process of altering a photo or an image, usually to remove imperfections, such as spots stains, and other flaws. The Clone Stamp tool is a retouching tool that lets you copy and paste pixels from one area of an image to another area. Retouching is the process of altering a photo or an image, usually to remove imperfections, such as spots stains, and other flaws.

3. Clone Stamp Tool You can then use the pixels that you’ve sampled (copied) either once or repeatedly to patch over flaws in an image or to remove larger unwanted elements. Shortcut: S You can then use the pixels that you’ve sampled (copied) either once or repeatedly to patch over flaws in an image or to remove larger unwanted elements. Shortcut: S Clone Stamp Tool

4. Spot Healing Brush Tool The spot healing brush tool is one of Photoshop’s most useful and versatile retouching tools. Retouching is the process of altering a photo or an image, usually to remove imperfections, such as spots, stains, and other flaws. Shortcut: J The spot healing brush tool is one of Photoshop’s most useful and versatile retouching tools. Retouching is the process of altering a photo or an image, usually to remove imperfections, such as spots, stains, and other flaws. Shortcut: J Spot Healing Brush Tool

5. Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool involves 5 main steps: 1.Select Brush Settings 2.Choose a blending mode (optional) 3.Choose whether to sample all layers 4.Specify a healing method 5.Apply the Spot healing brush Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool involves 5 main steps: 1.Select Brush Settings 2.Choose a blending mode (optional) 3.Choose whether to sample all layers 4.Specify a healing method 5.Apply the Spot healing brush **Always use a brush with a diameter slightly larger than the area you’re trying to fix**

6. Spot Healing Brush SPECIFY A HEALING METHOD: Proximity Match: samples pixels from around edge of the selection OR Create Texture: samples the pixels from inside the selection Try your fix with the Proximity match setting first. If you don’t get satisfying results, undo your work (command Z), switch to the Create Texture method and try again to see if your results improve.

7. Spot Healing Brush Tool........ With the Spot Healing Brush tool active, you paint directly onto the flawed area that you’d like to fix. You can paint either in strokes, by clicking and dragging, or on specific spots, by clicking and releasing. Once you click or paint over a flaw in the image, the Spot Healing Brush automatically samples nearby pixels and uses those pixels to fix the problem.

8. The Patch Tool The Patch tool is one of the quickest and most effective ways to retouch images in Photoshop. This tool lets you replace the pixels in a problematic area of an image with pixels from another, “clean” part of the same image. Shortcut: J The Patch tool is one of the quickest and most effective ways to retouch images in Photoshop. This tool lets you replace the pixels in a problematic area of an image with pixels from another, “clean” part of the same image. Shortcut: J Patch Tool

9. The Patch Tool The first step in using the Patch tool is to select the part of the image that you’d like to fix. Selecting parts of an image with the Patch tool works just like it does with standard Photoshop selection tools, such as the Lasso—you simply circle the target area while keeping the mouse button pressed down, then release the mouse button once you’ve circled the entire target area to finalize the selection. The first step in using the Patch tool is to select the part of the image that you’d like to fix. Selecting parts of an image with the Patch tool works just like it does with standard Photoshop selection tools, such as the Lasso—you simply circle the target area while keeping the mouse button pressed down, then release the mouse button once you’ve circled the entire target area to finalize the selection.

10. The Patch Tool 1.Select the targeted area that you want to fix. 2.Click and drag the selected target area to an area that you want to duplicate. 3.Finalize the duplicate selection 1.Select the targeted area that you want to fix. 2.Click and drag the selected target area to an area that you want to duplicate. 3.Finalize the duplicate selection

11. Class Exercise 1.Log In and Open Photoshop. 2.Locate the Clone Stamp Tool Folder in my Public Folder. 3.Choose 2 photos you want to work with. 4.Using the Clone Stamp Tool, you must duplicate the image several times on the first photo. 5.Choose the second photo and use the clone stamp tool to erase the image using the background pixels. 6.Save the photos as: ‘Name.duplicate.psd’ and ‘Name.erase.psd’ 1.Log In and Open Photoshop. 2.Locate the Clone Stamp Tool Folder in my Public Folder. 3.Choose 2 photos you want to work with. 4.Using the Clone Stamp Tool, you must duplicate the image several times on the first photo. 5.Choose the second photo and use the clone stamp tool to erase the image using the background pixels. 6.Save the photos as: ‘Name.duplicate.psd’ and ‘Name.erase.psd’