Photoshop has some really great tools for retouching a damage
In this tutorial video were going to learn about
the three basic tools the Spot Healing Brush
the Healing Brush and the Clone Stamp Tool before we learn about those tools
however
let's make sure that we don't damage the original picture
by adding a new layer above the photo
and renaming it retouch, we do this because we want to add all of our paint for the
retouch
on this transparent layer so it doesn't hurt the layer underneath it
and so that it's easy for us to erase any mistakes that we might make
let's start with the easiest tool the Spot Healing Brush tool
is located on the toolbar and it looks like a band aid was a little
circle to the left of it, now before we actually paint something like this spot
right here
I wanna explain to you a couple of things with this tool
first, it's not just for round circular small spots
you can even retouch this line right here, what you need to keep in mind with the Spot
Healing Brush Tool
is that it needs to be a blemish or a spot or a line
that is surrounded by fairly good pixels now
this pictures pretty grainy, so you're probably saying these aren't good pixels
but in terms of not having any these black and white
damage blemishes, it is in fact good pixels
what it's gonna do is when you paint it's gonna look around that blemish for the
good pixels
paint those pixels and then blend it in for you
before we do that let's make sure that our tool settings are correct
the mode needs to be normal and we're just choosing content-aware
and make sure that sample all layers is checked otherwise it's not going to work
because our layer right now is totally transparent
so we need to make sure that it's going to sample all the layers
which is this background layer as well, now that we know it's set correctly
we're gonna paint over that blemish, once we let go
its gonna blend those pixels in with the pixels around it
so we can even do this line and it blends it in
and it looks good, now if you're ever working on some of these
blemishes and you find that it doesn't do a great job the first time
just undo it or step backward in history, do it again
and see if it blends better the second time, if it doesn't
or if you know you're in an area that the Spot Healing Brush Tool won't work
such as this area up here, then we're gonna change to the Healing Brush Tool
the Healing Brush tool does the same thing
it'll paint pixels and it'll blend in, so that it looks like a natural part of the
picture
but instead of automatically choosing the pixels around it
which we don't want to have happen because we've got a lot of damage around
it
let's see if i do it right here, oops it's gonna come up this
issue option click and what that is basically telling you
is you need to define a source so you need to tell it where the good pixels
are
because if I were to go back to the spot Healing Brush Tool
and paint, the pixels around that
are damaged and so it could create milky areas
that are kinda blurry and they don't look right, so instead were going touse the
Healing Brush Tool
that allows us to choose really good pixels are
and have Photoshop sample from that area, now make sure whatever area you're
fixing that you sample an area good pixels near it
because these pixels are in good light compared to the light
that was hitting these, we wouldn't want a sample here even those, these are
good pixels because they are in shadow
so for this one we need to
hold the Alt or the Option key, and our mouse temporarily changes to a target
and we need to click once to define them as our source point for
healing, now you can see when I move my brush over in the center
we have pixels from our source point down here and we can start painting
if you watch as I paint and look a little bit south
east, where my original source point was you can see little cross hair that tries to
follow my brush
and that's because that's were it's picking those pixels up from
now as you're looking at this you're probably saying that doesn't look right
because it's not blended
as soon as you left your key, as soon as you left your mouse
its gonna try to blend it in for you be careful though
because let's say your source point was
right here
and you tried to paint it in, see all of the sudden you start painting in
his face, because that source point is gonna follow you
and then it tries to blend it in that doesn't look good
so I'll undo that on and be careful around the edges as well
so again the Healing Brush Tool is still gonna blend in your pixels you're just
trying to choose
where the good pixels so you can get rid of a bunch to these damaged areas
that has too much around it to effectively work with the Spot Healing Brush
the last two were gonna talk about is the Clone Stamp Tool
it's a little bit harder than the other two, and the difference between
it and the other two is and it literally clones the pixels
and it doesn't try to blend it all for you
let's see this in action will choose Clone Stamp Tool on the toolbar
and just like the Healing Brush I can do ALT click
or option click and that's gonna allow me to choose his face
and now if I paint, its following along
and it's painting his face it's literally cloning those pixels
so I can let go and you'll notice that as soon as I let go
it doesn't blend those pixels in
so that's not going to work out for us for this retouching but it's gonna work
great for the shoulder area
go back in history and using command plus
or control plus zoom in on this blemish right here
the reason why you can't use the Spot Healing Brush or the Healing Brush on
this blemish right here
is because they both blend pixels and unfortunately this blemish
is both on light pixels and dark pixels
so when it tries to blend those colors are going to try to smear together
and look not milky and blurry some I'm gonna make my a clone stamp tool
not as big as the blemish but pretty close
and because it's right on this I'm going to hold
the ALT key and click right on that edge
and then as I move you can see that it looks like I'm making the shoulders stick
out
or go in and that's what we want to have happen
now it's not going to work if the slopes are different see how it doesn't work here
but this slope with the blemish is pretty much that same as the one i sampled from
here
so it should work so I'll hover over the edge of that blemish
and try to get him to line up and then I'm just gon1na start painting
and I can do one more time
and that got rid of that blemish without having any other blurry or milky area
so another area like that would be his ear
and I can make it a little bit smaller and again
we want to do the same kind angle so I can either come down here a little bit
up here
and sometimes this takes a little bit of practice
so I'll ALT click right there and again try to line up like a puzzle piece
and fix that, now one thing you can do is you can ALT click out here in the dark
area
and paint that in and then you can
ALT click in the light area of his ear
and then paint that in, that's another method of using that tool
so those are the three basic retouching tools that you can use to fix a damaged
photo