AV News 182 - November 2010
If we were to treat this photograph as a pure record then it would of course
be incorrect to remove such elements, but if we wish to regard this as a
chocolate box pictorial image without pretending that it's an accurate
representation then it's fine to enhance by retouching, thereby creating a
more pleasant photograph. Whilst this image is never going to achieve any
award it does
serve to illustrate
Adobe's new tool
remarkably well.
A combination
of familiar tools
from the previous
Photoshop
versions
could
have been used
to remove all
these faults, for
example; using
the Clone tool on
the left side tree
to remove the
hefty cable, and
the Patch tool or
the Healing Brush in the blue sky. The Patch tool could also be used
effectively to remove the large TV aerial, whilst the Clone tool could retouch
the two smaller aerials at the side of the chimney. In the foreground a
combination of Clone tool and Healing Brush could remove the white and
yellow lines and also the two small shadows on the pavement. Perhaps you
may have chosen a different combination of tools, probably because you
would feel more comfortable with your own choice. Perhaps you would have
tackled the editing in an entirely different way. It doesn't really matter which
tools or which method you use as long as you achieve satisfactory results,
and in Photoshop there is often several ways to achieve the same result.
Although none of the described edits would be difficult to achieve using any
tools they would nonetheless be quite time consuming. It isn't necessary to
make any 'selections' other than to ensure
the working layer is selected when using the
Clone tool or the Healing Brush, however
when using the Patch tool a selection is
necessary. This selection could be made
using any one of several tools i.e. Lasso,
Polygonal Lasso or one of the Marquee
tools, rectangular or elliptical, but have you
thought of using the Pen tool for making selections? When using Content
Aware Fill in CS5 it is necessary to make selections so that the Fill command
knows which areas it needs to fill.
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