Fixing your photos with the retouching tools Flashcards
How can you zoom in? (3)
- Initial click does a one-step zoom in and then:
- CTRL (hold) + mouse wheel
OR - CTRL and +/-
- Use navigator
Where do you find the red eye correction tool?
In the Tool Strip in the right hand panel of the Develop module.
Adjustment brush – where do you find it?
And give a great example of how to use it?
at end of Tool Strip.
RE: This is amazing. Have a face too in the shadows? Use this to increase exposure just over the face and perhaps other areas like hands and feet to bring out the subject.
How does the Adjustment Brush differ from spot removal tool?
You use a control to change the existing pixels vs using source pixels to modify the destination area.
Re: ie the later samples/borrows other pixels, the former just edits the existing in situ pixels.
The spot removal tool allows you to remove blemishes and **** .
distractions
Where can you find the spot removal tool?
2nd item on the Tool Strip TR of Develop Module.
The Spot Removal Brush is how you apply a correction - what size should you pick?
Aim for a brush size of just a bit larger than the blemish (or distraction).
What does ‘feather’ on the spot removal tool specify?
The blend amount of the correction with the surrounding pixels
What does the ‘opacity’ setting of the ‘spot removal tool’ determine?
The transparency of the correction.
RE: or blend between original pixels and the corrective ones.
Differentiate when you would use the ‘clone’ vs ‘heal’ options when using the ‘Spot Removal Tool’?
Clone is a definite copy and paste type of action from source pixels to destination.
Heal aims to blend the source pixels with destination.
How can you compare before and after using the Spot Removal Tool?
Toggle on/off the spot removal (at bottom of the open tool panel) to compare your work with pre-edited pic.
Where is the ‘Spot Removal Tools’ Tool overlay feature?
And how can it help you?
Tool overlay feature sits below the pic. It marks where you have made spot removal adjustments, so you can review and re-do if necessary.
To the right of the Tool overlay feature is the ‘Visualise spots’ feature - how can this help?
This can help you identify spots you may wish to treat. You can also work in this view.
RE: I actually found working in this view helpful.
Spot removal tool great for identifying dust on lens using the ‘Visualise spots’, then remove them all easily.
Removing spots from dust on lens - often a problem with clear blue skies.
Removing linear objects using the ‘Spot Removal Tool’- how?
Click on one end of the straight lined object + Shift and click on the other end.
Reduce and simplify – a good approach to landscape pics. Focus on the pristine beauty of the scene, without distraction from too much detail.
Remember to use the navigator and the zoom ratios.
Reducing Shadows under the eyes using the ‘Spot Removal Tool’ - what are Chris Orwig’s 2 instructions?
- This typically needs a lot of feather (e.g. 77). Viz, feather on face, dipped in cake.
- It may look fake, so reduce the opacity (e.g. 58) so that you blend with the original pixels and some of the eye shadow comes through, so you are softening the shadow (RE: rather than removing it completely).
Re: so I guess feather is how well the correction dovetails with that surrounding pixels, whereas opacity is how the corrective pixels blend with the underlying original pixels.