ptg 170 Chapter 7 Working with the Spot Healing Brush Use the Spot Healing Brush Select the Spot Healing Brush tool. Select a soft round brush on the Options bar. Create a new layer above the layer you want to modify. Select the Sample All Layers option. Using small short strokes, carefully drag over the areas you want to change, then release your mouse and move to the next area. The Spot Healing brush works to match the sample to the source. 5 4 3 2 1 A powerful tool in Photoshop's formidable arsenal of restoration and correction tools is the Spot Healing Brush. With a name similar to the Healing Brush, you might expect that the tools have similar features, and you would be correct. The main difference between the two tools is that the Spot Healing Brush does not require you to take a sample of the area to heal. The Spot Healing Brush tool takes the area sample as you work by sampling the surrounding pixels. The Spot Healing Brush, as its name implies, works best on small spots and imperfections. To heal larger areas, the standard Healing Brush, Patch tool, and even the good old Clone Stamp tool are your best bets. 2 4 The Spot Healing Brush smoothed out some of the wrinkles. Did You Know? You can use the Clone Source panel to set different sampling points. The Clone Source panel allows you to set up to five different sampling source points for the Clone Stamp tools or Healing Brush tools. Click a clone source button in the Clone Source panel, and then click a sampling point. To op en the Clone So ur ce panel, click the Window menu, and then click Clone Source. You can also scale or rotate the clone source, or show an overlay of the clone source. 1 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg Chapter 7 Working with Adjustment Layers, Filters, and Tools 171 Working with the Red Eye Tool Use the Red Eye Tool Select the Red Eye tool. Select from the following options on the Options bar: ◆ Pupil Size. Select the size of the pupil in relation to the amount of red eye. ◆ Darken Amount. Select how much you want to darken the pupil area of the eye. Click in the middle of the red portion of the eye, and release. The red is removed, and the pupil is darkened. 3 2 1 The Red Eye tool not only gives the digital restorer an excellent tool for removing pesky red eye, it will also remove the green and white reflec- tions in pet's eyes. The biggest generator of red eye is the onboard flash on your camera. Actually, if they would simply rename a camera's built-in flash, "red eye generator," it might help amateur photographers pay more attention. However, until that day comes, designers will still have to deal with images that contain red eye. The Red Eye tool per- forms two operations: it desaturates the red values, and darkens the pupil. 2 The red eye is removed with the click of your mouse. 3 1 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg 172 Chapter 7 The Levels adjustment lets you adjust the tonal range of an image by giving you three sliders—one for shadows, midtones, and highlights. Dragging the sliders precisely adjusts the tonal ranges of an image. In addition, the Output sliders let you adjust the ink percentages used to print during output. By adjusting the output ink levels, you avoid the overly black images that sometimes plague images printed with high dot-gain papers. Controlling Tonal Range Control Tonal Range Open a document in which you want to change the tonal range. Select the Layers panel, and then select the layer to which you want to apply the Levels adjustment. Click the Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer button, and then click Levels or use the icon for Levels from the Adjustments panel. To use common Leve ls set ti ng s, click the Levels list arrow, and then select a preset. If you select Auto, Photoshop will make a Levels adjustment for you. Click the Channel list arrow to select whether to work on the entire image, or just one of the image’s default color channels (useful for color correction). Drag the Shadow input slider to the right to adjust the balance of black in the image. Drag the Midtone input slider left or right to lighten or darken the midtones of the image. Drag the Highlight input slider to the left to adjust the balance of white in the image. Drag the Black and White Output Levels sliders left and right to adjust the percentage of ink used in printing the image. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 4 6 7 8 9 5 3 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg Chapter 7 Working with Adjustment Layers, Filters, and Tools 173 To load a pr ev iously saved Lev el s adjustment, click Load Levels Preset from the Levels options menu, and then select and load the file. Click Save Levels Preset from the Levels options menu to save the current Levels adjustment. Use the eyedropper tools to select black, white, and midtone points directly within the active image. Use the available buttons to fine- tune the adjustment and navigate through the Adjustments panel. ◆ Left-pointing arrow moves you back to the list of available adjustment layer types. ◆ Folder icon with arrow toggles the panel from Expanded view to Standard view. ◆ The double circle icon creates a clipping group. ◆ The eye icon toggles visibility of the adjustment layer. ◆ The eye icon with an arrow allows you to see the previous state before the adjustment was made. ◆ The circular arrow returns the image to the default adjustments. ◆ The trash can icon deletes the adjustment layer. 13 12 11 10 To na l ch a ng e s a p pl i ed Did You Know? You can view the Levels Histogram anytime. Click the Window menu, and then click Histogram. Photoshop opens a Histogram panel that lets you view tonal changes to the image as you make them. 13 12 11 10 From the Library of Wow! eBook ptg 174 Chapter 7 Photoshop's Histogram panel gives you many options for viewing tonal and color information about the active image. The Histogram's default display is the tonal range of the entire image. However, you can use any of Photoshop's selection tools, select a portion of the active docu- ment, and display a histogram for just that portion of the image. You can also view a specific color channel or view all the channels at once. The tonal range and color values for an image are vitally important to gen- erating great graphics, and the Histogram panel is a great resource for instant up-to-date information. Working with the Histogram Panel Work with the Histogram Panel Select the Histogram panel. ◆ Click the Window menu, and then click Histogram. Click the Histogram Options button, and then select from the following options: ◆ Uncached Refresh. Click to refresh the image cache (rescans the image). ◆ Compact View. Click to create a small, panel-size view of the Histogram panel. ◆ Expanded View. Click to create an expanded view of the Histogram panel. Includes options to view specific channels, luminosity settings or color. ◆ All Channels View. Click to view all the color channels. ◆ Show Statistics. Click to show history statistics. ◆ Show Channels In Color. Click to show the channels using specific colors, such as red, green, and blue. 2 1 1 2 All channels in color Expanded view Viewing Information Using the Histogram Panel You can view information about a specific pixel or pixel range using the Histogram panel. Make sure the Expanded View option is select- ed, and then place the pointer in the histogram to view information about a specific pixel value. To view information about a range of values, drag in the histogram to highlight the range. For Your Information From the Library of Wow! eBook . the Spot Healing Brush does not require you to take a sample of the area to heal. The Spot Healing Brush tool takes the area sample as you work by sampling the surrounding pixels. The Spot Healing. area. The Spot Healing brush works to match the sample to the source. 5 4 3 2 1 A powerful tool in Photoshop& apos;s formidable arsenal of restoration and correction tools is the Spot Healing. ptg 170 Chapter 7 Working with the Spot Healing Brush Use the Spot Healing Brush Select the Spot Healing Brush tool. Select a soft round brush on the Options