LESSON 3
(ALTERATION TOOLS)
Healing Brush
Corrects small blemishes in scanned photos.Select the tool, hold down the ALT key and left-click on the base color you need to heal. Then left-click over the blemish.
Clone Stamp Tool
Takes a sample of an image and applies over another image, or a part of the same image. Select the tool. Hold down the ALT key and left-click on a certain point of the document where you want to start your copy point. Then, put your mouse over whatever part of the new document you want the picture to go to. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse across the page to copy the picture.
Eraser
Paints over an image using the source data from a specified history state or snapshot. Select the tool, specify the brush, blending mode, opacity, style, area and tolerance.
Blur
Blurs the sharp edges of an image. Select an area where you wish to apply the tool. Click the tool button and choose the brush, mode, and strength. Drag the brush along the edges.
Gradient Tool
Applies a gradient fill to a selected part of the image or to an entire layer. Select an area you wish to apply gradient to, click the tool button, choose a fill in the Optionsbar, click on the starting point, hold the mouse down and drag to the end point.
Brush Tool
A brush. It can be soft, hard, big, round, square, or even completely customized to make incredible effects. And with the mixer brush tool, you can really go deep into the world of digital paintings since you�ll be able to set just how dry, wet and loaded your artistic brush is.
Clone Stamp Tools
If you ever need to edit something out of an image and those complicated spot healing brushes aren�t your thing, try the Clone Stamp. It will let you sample one area of an image and paint over another, while simultaneously sampling from the area you choose. It�s tough to explain by text, so try it out yourself. You�ll be amazed by how often you�ll start to use this tool.
History Brush Tools
The history brush will help you paint over parts of an image and you�ll be painting an earlier version of your image over it. The history brush is easily configurable from the History menu. Oh, and for an even flashier effect, try the Artistic Art History Brush which although is very similar to the Mixer brush tool, will bring some additional options and effects to your brush.
Dodge Tool
Make stuff brighter.The Dodge tool is great for effects but don�t go to heavy on it.