January 1, 2013

Photo Retouching in Photoshop: A Guide to the Healing and Repair Tools

There’s always one thing wrong with a photo. A pimple that showed up the day of the shoot. A scratch on a scanned print from twenty years ago. A power line running straight through what would’ve been a perfect sky. Photoshop actually has a good set of tools for exactly this kind of stuff, and once you get used to which one does what, most fixes take way less time than you’d think. Let’s go through them one by one. Spot Healing Brush Tool This is usually the first tool people learn, mostly because it’s so easy to use. Small