Lecture 2 - The Great Healers

Spot Healing Brush

perfect for fixing round problem areas like pimples, moles

Spot Healing Brush

great for retouching people, fixing dust and specks in old photos, and removing anything that’s roundish in shape

larger

The key to success with the Spot Healing Brush is to make your cursor a little bit ____ than the area you want to fix.

Healing Brush

This tool also blends two areas of skin together, but you have to tell it where to find the skin that looks good

setting a sample point

This process, called ______, is how you let Photopea know which portion of skin—or fur, or whatever—you want it to sample

J, Shift-J, Alt

To set a point sample, activate the Healing Brush by pressing __ (or press _____ to cycle through the healing tools) and then click (___- click on a PC) an unblemished area of skin to set the sample point

Healing Brush

This tool works really well on wrinkles, scratches, and so on, and you can make the healing happen on its own layer.

Healing Brush

The ______ tool is similar to the Spot Healing Brush, but it allows you to choose where to sample the detail that will be used to retouch an area

Healing Brush

It creates a smooth blend between the sampled detail and the area you are retouching, making it an excellent tool for tasks where seamless color blending is important

Aligned

Turn on this checkbox to keep your sample point aligned with your cursor, even if you release your mouse button and move to another area

Aligned

When this setting is off, Photopea uses the original sample point each time you start to paint even if you move your cursor far away. So if your healing requires several brushstrokes, it’s helpful to turn this setting on

Patch Tool

It’s often better than the Healing Brush for fixing big areas like dark circles or bags beneath tired eyes

Patch Tool

It’s also handy for removing piercings, tattoos, and shiny or shadowy spots

Content-Aware move tool

The _______ allows you to move an object from one place to another. After it "cuts out" the object, the old location ("the hole") is filled with a content-aware fill, and the object is adapted to the surrounding area at the new location

Red-Eye

____ occurs when a photo is taken with a flash that is too close to the subject

speedlight, natural

Red eye is very common for on- camera flashes for that reason. To avoid the problem altogether, try using a larger flash such as a _____. Or, photograph in ____ light instead

Clone Stamp

The ______ is a powerful retouching tool in Photopea that is useful for removing unwanted items or duplicating areas of an image. It works by painting over either a part of the same image, or even over parts of another image

Clone Stamp tool

The ______ uses pixels from one area of an image to replace the pixels in another part of the image

Clone Stamp tool

Using this tool, you can not only remove unwanted objects from your images, but you can also fill in missing areas in photographs you scan from damaged originals

Option, Alt

Use the “_____” key (“____”) to set the source

small to medium, soft, hard

a _____-sized round ____ brush gives the best result. A ____ brush creates noticeable seams

scatter

Use a ____ brush to create interesting particle effects

Current Layer, Current and Below, All Layers

Under the “Source” menu are three options: _____, _____ and _______

Source Menu

These options affect the area you are sourcing

Current Layer

with _____ selected, the clone stamp ignores pixel data contained in any other layer

All Layers, invisible

_____ ignores all layer distinction and clones any visible pixels in the document (____ layers will be ignored)

Current and Below

Finally, ______ samples pixels from the selected layer and any visible layers behind it

Clone Stamp, unchecked

The Align option controls the sampling behaviour of the _____. When the Aligned option is ____, the tool will always sample from the same part of the photo

Aligned

Select _____ and the sample cursor will follow the destination cursor around, keeping the same distance away

marching ants

To use the Patch tool, grab it from the Tools panel, mouse over to your image, and drag to draw an outline around the area you want to fix (_____ appear when you let go of your mouse)