From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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The Sponge tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
The Sponge tool
I'm going to go ahead and save my progress so far as Dodged and burnt.jpg, right about now we should think about addressing some of the saturation problems inside of this image that have newly popped up, thanks to our use of the Dodge and Burn tools. And we can address some of that saturation using the Sponge tool right here, so go ahead and select it from the fly- out menu, or press my DekeKeys, keyboard shortcut of N and notice that by default it's set to Desaturate, Flow in this case, instead of Exposure, it's set to 50%, same deal though, you can press the '0' key to change it to 100%, you can press 1 for 10% and so on. I'm going to set it to '2' for 20%, because we really don't want to do too much work too quickly, you can either adjust Vibrance, that is either Desaturate or Saturate the image, using Photoshop's Vibrance function, and you may recall that that helps the colors that need help the most. Or you can just work with Flat Saturation, if you turn Vibrance off. I would…
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Brushing to correct56s
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How brushing works4m 52s
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Working with spacing7m 32s
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Changing size and hardness7m 45s
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The heads-up Color Picker7m 17s
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Flipping a mirror image3m 33s
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Setting the source for the History brush3m 42s
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Brightening details with the Dodge tool7m 49s
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Darkening details with the Burn tool3m 5s
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The Sponge tool4m 29s
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Backing off edits8m 4s
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Patching eye bags8m 57s
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Evening out flesh tones7m 23s
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Smoothing away whiskers7m 41s
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Reducing shadow noise7m
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How healing works4m 40s
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The enhanced Spot Healing brush4m 52s
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Using the better Healing brush4m 23s
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Introducing the Clone Source panel3m 49s
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Cloning from one layer to another5m 30s
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Working with multiple sources4m 44s
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