August 2013
Beginner
320 pages
14h 35m
English

The exercises in this chapter will provide technical lessons and teach you to match textures and values to create photographic illusions in two compositions. You’ll explore various tools for healing and cloning parts of an image, and add a simple layer mask to blend image features for a quality of verisimilitude.
The repair tools are grouped together in the Photoshop Tools panel—all of them hide behind the Spot Healing Brush tool. The tools I use most often to make repairs are the Spot Healing Brush tool and the Clone Stamp tool. The Patch tool can be hard to control or predict, and the Red Eye tool ...