Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P11

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P11:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copyof Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team atAdobe thank you.If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what toexpect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip.
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Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P11 Chapter 7 ✦ Retouching, Repeating, and Restoring 267Clone reference crosshair Stamp pickup cursor Rubber stamp cursorFigure 7-2: After Alt-clicking at the point indicated by the stamp pickupcursor, I dragged with the rubber stamp tool to paint with the image.(The only reason I painted inside the white rectangle was to set off theline so you can see it better.)Figure 7-3: As the result of my cloning, this memorializedhero suffers twice the indignation of being used as a loftyperch for loitering birds.268 Part II ✦ Painting and Retouching Figure 7-4: I merged the area around the horse and rider with a water image from another open window (see the upcoming Figure 7-6). The translucent effects were created by periodically adjusting the Opacity value to settings ranging from 50 to 80 percent. When the rubber stamp is active, the Options bar gives you access to the Brush palette as well as the standard Mode, Opacity, and Use All Layers options that I cover in Chapter 5. The only unique item is the Aligned check box. To understand how this option works, think of the locations where you Alt-click and begin drag- ging with the rubber stamp as opposite ends of an imaginary straight line, as illus- trated in the top half of Figure 7-5. When Aligned is turned on, the length and angle of this imaginary line remains fixed until the next time you Alt-click. As you drag, Photoshop moves the line, cloning pixels from one end of the line and laying them down at the other. The upshot is that regardless of how many times you start and stop dragging with the stamp tool, all brushstrokes match up as seamlessly as pieces in a puzzle. If you want to clone from a single portion of an image repeatedly, turn off the Aligned check box. The second example in Figure 7-5 shows how Photoshop clones from the same point every time you paint a new line with the rubber stamp tool. As a result, each of the four brushstrokes features part of the bird and none line up with each other. Chapter 7 ✦ Retouching, Repeating, and Restoring 269 Aligned Not alignedFigure 7-5: Turn on the Aligned check box to instruct Photoshop to clonean image continuously, no matter how many lines you paint (top). If youturn off the option, Photoshop clones each new line from the point atwhich you Alt-click.Touching up blemishesOne great use of the rubber stamp tool is to touch up a scanned photo. Figure 7-6shows a Photo CD image desperately in need of the stamp tool’s attention. Normally,Kodak’s Photo CD process delivers some of the best consumer-quality scans moneycan buy. But this particular medium-resolution image looks like the folks at the lab270 Part II ✦ Painting and Retouching got together and blew their respective noses on it. It’s too late to return to the service bureau and demand they rescan the photo, so my only choice is to touch it up myself. Figure 7-6: This appallingly bad Photo CD image is riddled with blotches and big hulky wads of dust that didn’t exist on the original 35mm slide. The best way to fix this image — or any image like it — is to use the rubber stamp over and over again, repeatedly Alt-clicking at one location and then clicking at another. Begin by selecting a brush shape slightly larger than the largest blotch. Of the default brushes, the hard-edged varieties with diameters of 5 and 9 pixels gener- ally work best. (The soft-edged brush shapes have a tendency to only partially hide the blemishes and leave ghosted versions behind.) Alt-click with the stamp tool at a location that features similarly colored pixels to the blemished area. Be sure to Alt-click far enough away from the blemish that you don’t run the risk of duplicating the blemish as you clone. Then click — do not drag — directly on the blemish to clone over it. The idea is to change as few pixels as possible. If the retouched area doesn’t look quite right, press Ctrl+Z to undo it, Alt-click at a different location, and try a ...