#Retouch tools Patch

These tools can be used to either lighten the areas that are underexposed in a photo or darken overexposed areas. The Dodge and Burn tools are digital versions in Photoshop. The word Dodge means lighten and Burn means darken.

In the Options bar, you can also specify the effect's 'Mode'.

It's easy to get a bit carried away with the Blur Tool when working on a face. The Blur Tool is useful for removing small facial blemishes and smoothing out wrinkles. Left-click and drag to make things blurry. The Blur Tool is used to make the image blur. Set the Eraser size and style, as in the following: Be sure to use these tools on a duplicate image layer, because they remove pixels permanently. The 'magic' aspect of the Magic Eraser is that it erases only pixels that are similar in color to the one you click, within the tool's current Tolerance range. If you want to remove something from an image then you can do that easily. We can use this tool to quickly remove stray pixels or isolated shapes from an image. Set the Clone size and style, as in the following: It's a great tool for fixing blemishes on a model's face, removing tattoos, duplicating things and cleaning dust off an image. This tool, also named Rubber Stamp Tool or the Colon Tool we use, copies a selected area of the photo and pastes it over another area. You may need to click and drag a couple times to get the entire eye.

We simply select the Red Eye Tool, then we will click and drag on the image to draw a box around the red eye.

#Retouch tools Patch

There is quite a similarity between the Healing Brush Tool and the the Patch Tool since it also matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. This tool repairs a selected area with pixels that can be taken from another area or a pattern. Set the Healing Brush size and style, as in the following: In the Toolbox, select the 'Healing Brush Tool'. And this is what makes this tool so incredibly powerful for restoring and retouching pictures. This means that the repaired pixels blend seamlessly into the rest of the image. The Healing Brush Tool and the Clone Stamp Tool are pretty much similar in regard to their work, but even after much similarity there is one difference, which is that the Healing Brush Tool also matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. Set the Spot Healing Brush size and style, as in the following:

In the Toolbox, select the 'Spot Healing Brush Tool'. We can use this tool to clean up small unwanted marks from an image, even more easily than the standard Healing Brush Tool. In this article you will learn about the Retouching Tool in other words how to do a cline image. In my previous articles you learned about: