Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 22, 2009
When you click in a layer with the magic eraser tool, the tool automatically changes all similar pixels. If you’re working in the background or in a layer with locked transparency, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. You can choose to erase contiguous pixels only or all [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 13, 2009
The healing brush tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. Like the cloning tools, you use the healing brush tool to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. However, the healing brush tool also matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: October 2, 2009
The crop tool in PhotoShop has an additional option that allows you to transform the perspective in an image. This is very useful when working with images that contain keystone distortion. Keystone distortion occurs when an object is photographed from an angle rather than from a straight-on view. For example, if you take a picture [...]
Posted by: Millie Patel on: September 24, 2009
The Extract command provides a sophisticated way to isolate a foreground object and erase its background on a layer. Even objects with wispy, intricate, or undefinable edges may be clipped from their backgrounds with a minimum of manual work. Note: For simpler cases, you can instead use the background eraser tool. To extract an object, [...]
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