ICT Flashcards
These tools repair damaged images, apply repeated patterns, or replace colors in an image.
Retouching Tools
This tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. You can use the it to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. However, it also matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. As a result, the repaired pixels blend seamlessly into the rest of the image.
Healing Brush (J)
This tool quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections in your photos. It works similarly to the Healing Brush: it paints with sampled pixels from an image or pattern and matches the texture, lighting,
transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. Unlike the Healing Brush, the it doesn’t require you to specify a sample spot. It automatically samples from around the retouched
area.
Spot Healing Brush (J)
This tool lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern. Like the Healing Brush tool, this tool matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. You can also use it to clone isolated areas of an image. It works with 8‑bits or 16‑bits-per-channel images.
Patch Tool (J)
This tool removes red eye
in flash photos of people or animals.
Red Eye Tool (J)
This tool is used to sample pixels from one part of the image to paint in another. This can be useful for combining elements or textures from other pictures. It normally samples from a single layer only. The Use All Layers option permits the sample to be taken from merged layer pixel information.
Clone Stamp Tool (S)
This tool is different in that it allows you to select a pattern in the Options bar and paint using the chosen pattern as your image source. T
Pattern Stamp Tool (S)
This option adds some jitter to the pattern source and can be used to produce a more diffuse pattern texture.
Impressionist Mode
It is basically a brush which removes pixels as you drag it across the image. Pixels are removed to transparency, or the background colour if the layer is locked.
Eraser Tool
This tool allows you to remove the background colour from an image or layer. When you click the image, it samples the colour at the centre of the brush and erases this colour as you drag. Options in the toolbar allow you to specify the type of erasure, colour tolerance and sampling method.
Background Eraser Tool (E)
This tool erases all colours within a set tolerance. This is essentially the same as using the magic wand and hitting Delete. Using this tool you don’t need to drag — just click once.
Magic Eraser Tool
This tool is used to soften or harden the uneven portions of an image.
Blur Tool
This tool is used to increase the contrast, clarity of an image.
Sharpen Tool
This tool is used, to blend the portion of an image together.
Smudge Tool
This is where light is blocked out to make portions of the image lighter. If you aren’t happy with how the exposure turned out on your photo you can use this tool to increase it. Select your brush and you then have three options: shadows, midtones and highlights.
Dodge Tool
