From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
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Removing damage with the Patch tool
From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
Removing damage with the Patch tool
- Both the Clone Stamp tool and the Healing Brush are brush-based. They're designed to allow you to create strokes to target the area for effecting. If you have a larger area that you want to effect, though, the patch tool can be quite useful for fixing a very large zone. Let's make a new layer here called Patch. And I'll come over and select the Patch tool. This tool allows you to make a selection. Now you can use the patch tool itself, or any of the Marquee tools. For example, I could just take the regular Marquee tool, here, and select the text over the photo. Now grab the Patch tool and I'm going to patch the source. Now when you try to drag, you might notice that the Patch tool doesn't work with empty pixels. It doesn't have an option for all layers. So what I'm going to do is hold down the Option key with that empty layer, called Patch, selected and I'll choose Layer, Merge Visible, while holding down the Option or Alt key. And you see it makes a new flattened copy while still…
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