Photoshop Photo Editing

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
Tools for Photo Editing

These are the tools that will help us to manipulate photos in many ways:
 Blur / Sharpen / Smudge
 Dodge / Burn / Sponge
 Clone Stamp
 Healing / Spot Healing
 Patch / Red Eye
 Content Aware
 Levels / Curves
Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge

 Blur and Sharpen are “focus” tools  Smudge Tool: Imagine dragging your finger
through wet paint. It smears colors from
 Blur: Reduces contrast between pixels. It
where you drag the cursor.
softens jagged edges.
 Set the strength. Higher the strength, the more
 Sharpen: Increases contrast between pixels.
pronounced the effect.
 Set the strength setting on the top bar. Work
gradually, Sharpen can make things grainy if
too strong.
 Dodge, Burn, and Sponge

 Dodge: Lightens Pixels  Sponge Tool: Increase or decrease color

 These are known as saturation in areas of your image.
“toning” tools. The  Burn: Darkens Pixels
are based off of  Set mode pop-up to saturate or
 A softer brush typically works best, giving
traditional desaturate.
soft-edge results.
photographic  Click and drag to alter area of image.
techniques of
 Exposure sets the intensity of the tool.
decreasing or  Just click and drag to use.
increasing the
exposure. De-saturate

Dodge Burn saturate

 Clone Stamp Tool
 What is it?
 Use the Clone Stamp tool to
duplicate an area of pixels.
 Used to remove blemishes,
scratches, or unwanted details.
 How to use it:
 Select the tool and brush
size/hardness
 Aligned: The crosshair moves at a
 Hold down alt and select the part of fixed distance from your cursor.
the image you would like to clone.
 Non-Aligned: The crosshair stays
 Release the alt key. Move your in the same location no matter
cursor to the place you want to add where you move your cursor.
these pixels
 The cross hair shows where you
originally picked up the pixels to
clone
 Spot Healing and Healing

 Similar to the clone stamp tool, except  Spot Healing Brush:

that it matches the texture, luminosity  Just like healing brush, but you do not need to set a sample.
and shading of the sampled pixels to
create a seamless result.  Select “Content-Aware” on top panel.
 Click once for small areas. Click and drag for large areas.
 Healing Brush:
 Aligned option at top bar is same as
Clone Stamp.
 Take a sample you want to use by
holding down alt, release alt and
crosshair shows original selection area.
 Patch Tool and Red Eye Tool

 Patch Tool
 Red Eye Tool
 Similar to the healing tool, it clones or copies pixels and attempts to match the
texture. Except a large selection area is used.  Fix red eye cause by
camera flash
 Drag the tool around the area you want to patch over.
 Select the tool and click
 With your cursor inside that selection, move it to an area you want to copy pixels the red eye.
from.
 Adjust pupil size and
darkness in options bar if
needed.
Content-Aware Move Tool

 This is a quick tool that allows you to reposition image

content from one area of an image to another. (pretty
much it’s super cool!)
 First, make a selection around the area you want to relocate
 Select the content-aware tool, click inside the selection and
move to where you want to reposition.
 Photoshop does all the work! It analyzes the pixels and the
new background content to blend the moved pixels!
 Ctrl + D to deselect the marching ants.