From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Retouch with Photoshop Fix - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

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Retouch with Photoshop Fix

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- [Instructor] Hey everybody, Shawn Duggan here and this week on Mobile Photography Weekly, we're gonna take a look at some of the retouching capabilities in Adobe Photoshop Fix. Photoshop Fix is available for both Android and iOS for this episode I'm gonna be using it on an Android device. It's a free app but you do need to have a free Adobe ID in order to use it. You don't need to have a Creative Cloud subscription to enjoy the app but to get the most from it in terms of syncing files with your Creative Cloud files or sending a Photoshop Fix project over to Photoshop on your computer, a Creative Cloud subscription is the way to go. Alright let's dive in and check it out. I'm gonna start by creating a new project. There are a number of places where I can go and get files including importing an image from my Creative Cloud files, from Light Room CC on my mobile device, or from one of my saved Creative Cloud libraries that I create in Adobe programs on my computer. I'm just gonna tap on the phone up at the top to go get an image that is there, I'm gonna choose this compass and down at the bottom you can see the main toolbar so there's a lot of really cool stuff that I can do here in Photoshop Fix but for this tutorial we're just gonna be focusing on the healing tools. You can see that I have a spot heal tool, I have a patch tool, a clone stamp, and a restore brush. I'm gonna be starting off with the spot healing tool and I'm gonna use a two finger gesture to zoom up closer so I can see this screw here up in the upper right, I'm gonna tap on the brush icon over on the left side and that's gonna bring up my brush controls. If I press and drag on the brush size icon I can change the size of my brush and you can see that moving up and down there as I change the size of the brush I guess I'll leave it up at about 26 or 27 then I can do the same thing with the hardness of the brush to change the hardness and I'm just gonna leave it set to about roughly in the 50 zone. Next if I tap on that circle of dots that's gonna turn on a red overlay and that's just gonna allow me to see all the areas where I've retouched in this session even after I've exited out of the retouching part. For now I'm gonna turn that off as you'll see here when I'm actually brushing on the initial retouching we will see that red overlay. I'm going to brush over this screw here and I am using the stylus as I do this but it's nothing special, it's just a pretty inexpensive six dollar stylus that I picked up and let's see what that looks like, oh it did a pretty good job on that actually. So there you have it that is how the spot heal brush works. Let's move on to another part of this image here and I'm gonna use this tool again but I'm gonna use it to show you how to use the patch tool. In order to use the patch tool you do have to first define an area with the spot healing tool. I'm going to once again, let me actually change the size of my brush and make it smaller and I'm also going to make it a little bit harder, there we go. I'm going to start brushing over this area here and I'm gonna be careful not to get too close to that black ring because when you get close or start touching an area that is vastly different in terms of color or brightness the spot healing tool can have trouble. Alright so it's not perfect but it's good enough for our purposes here because I wanted to show you how to use the patch tool so now that I have brushed over that I'm gonna tap patch and you can see that it puts a little border around the area that I defined with the spot healing tool now I can drag inside this border and drag it over to an area that I want to actually use as a patch and notice how it is assuming the general color and brightness of the area where I am placing it so that is pretty cool. Now obviously that retouching doesn't really work at all for this particular job but I just wanted to point out how the patch tool works. Alright let me just tap the undo button and let's go and look at one other task here which might present a bit of a challenge for us but it's always good to know where a retouching tool or any kind of image editing tool for that matter may encounter challenges so that you can know when to expect that and act accordingly. I'm gonna start with the spot healing brush and the problem with this area here is that it is adjacent to this dark ring and in fact it's actually over the dark ring, it's half over the dark ring and half over the light area and let's see what it does. So not bad but not perfect, let me actually try to go over this again to see if I can get a better result there in the white area. That didn't work. And how about if I brush over the part of the screw that's on the dark ring, do I get anything decent there? That's actually not too bad, I can live with that. But what I need to do is I need to fix the part that is extending out over the white part of that ring so I'm gonna choose the clone stamp and I'm just gonna tap up here to define an area that I wanna copy data from so that's what that little white circle represents. Now I can come here and carefully paint along here to get close to this edge and if I do a good job I can recreate the shape of that curve on the ring pretty good, sample again, and it's just a slow process but overall that looks pretty good, it's not perfect but I think you get the idea of how that works. Alright so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna tap the check mark to apply that and if you look down underneath the healing icon down on the bottom you'll notice that there's a blue bar there so that indicates that you've gone in and applied that change and you would see that under any one of these other options here if I'd gone in and worked with those tools. The cool thing about that is that I can go back into the healing tools and I can turn on the red overlay and I can see where I've gone and apply the retouching and I could then go and do more retouching or improve upon retouching that I have already done so that is a really nice feature. Gonna tap the X just to exit out of that. Now if I wanted to save this out I could tap the little save icon up at the top, and I could save it out to my gallery or my camera roll but the cool thing is is that if I felt that there was some retouching here that Photoshop Fix really wasn't able to do for me I could send the file over to Photoshop CC on my computer and it would send it over there in a way that's gonna allow me to revisit the retouching and improve upon it using the more precise and refined tools that are available in Photoshop CC on my desktop computer. In addition to offering a lot of good retouching capabilities right here in the app, that ability to send a file over to my desktop computer version of Photoshop for more refined retouching is a big plus and I really appreciate that.

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