Photoshop Tools
The best thing about Photoshop is that there are so many different ways to do the same thing. Today I want you to become familiar with the different uses of the tools. If you place your cursor over a tool it will show you the name and the short-cut key that will activate that tool. Spend 3 minutes testing the tools on a blank canvas and a practice image.
After you have tried the tools open the following two images.
You are going to practice using the clone stamp and spot healing brush. The clone stamp tool requires that you first sample the area you would like to copy and it then stamps it to your new placement (you target and then paste). Note the cross that follows you as you move across your image - this represents what is being sampled. If it moves to far you will need to resample. The spot healing brush averages the pixels that surround it and tries to "guess" what you want.
You will clear the skin on the following two images. Make sure that you make your "corrections" on their own blank layer. Make sure that in the tool options bar you have selected to sample from all layers.
After you have tried the tools open the following two images.
You are going to practice using the clone stamp and spot healing brush. The clone stamp tool requires that you first sample the area you would like to copy and it then stamps it to your new placement (you target and then paste). Note the cross that follows you as you move across your image - this represents what is being sampled. If it moves to far you will need to resample. The spot healing brush averages the pixels that surround it and tries to "guess" what you want.
You will clear the skin on the following two images. Make sure that you make your "corrections" on their own blank layer. Make sure that in the tool options bar you have selected to sample from all layers.
| practice.jpg |
| teenage_girl_blemish.jpg |