Clone Stamp and Spot Healer

Photoshop Tools

Make a Folder

• Make a Folder Called “Photoshop Practice” and save these images there.

Open the distracting background picture in Photoshop

Make a copy of the background

Hint: drag background layer to new layer tab (next to the trash)

Select Clone Stamp Tool

It looks like a rubber stamp

Clone Stamp ToolOption Click in the picture to select a sample point. Imagine you’re painting over the part of the image you don’t want. Instead of dipping a brush in pain, you’re dipping it in another part of your image. Choose pixels that will match.We want to use the sky to cover up the distracting plant. So click in the sky. You can option click to change your sample point as much as you want.

Control Click to change the brush size.

Brush over the part you want to remove (in this picture the plant coming out of his head)

Until it’s gone and your blending looks natural

Spot Healing Tool – Open the acne picture in Photoshop

The spot healing tool is similar to the clone stamp tool.Instead of you picking a sample point, Photoshop blends the area you want to correct with similar pixels. It’s more subtle then the Clone Stamp.

It looks like a Band-Aid

Paint over the spots you want to remove

Let’s use this tool to clear his skin up. Brush over any red spots or blemishes.Where you

paint shows up dark while you’re painting

Paint over the spots you want to remove

Let’s use this tool to clear his skin up. Brush over any red spots or blemishes.Where you

paint shows up dark while you’re painting

And watch them blend in

Let’s use this tool to clear his skin up. Brush over any red spots or blemishes.Where you

paint shows up dark while you’re painting

Until They’re Gone…