Continuing the short primer on the Retouching Tools. The Clone Tools and History Brush
The Clone Tool and how to use it should be familiar to anyone who has been following this course by no.
The (Clone) Pattern Stamp tool and how to use it might be a bit of a mystery though.
To see how it might be used, open the original 'retouch girl' image again:
Download the image to practice on, either by using this link, or by clicking on the thumbnail image right.
Zoom in on the image,and using the Marquee selection tool (ensuring there is no feather set), select a square area (by holding down the SHIFT key) on her dress as left.
Then use the menu option EDIT > DEFINE PATTERN and give your new pattern a name and OK.
To test it out, select the Pattern Stamp tool:
From the pattern/textures palette choose your new 'pattern' (as right), Add a new layer to the image
Thentry painting with the Pattern Stamp tool to add more 'dress' to her neckline! (See left).
Leave the image open to try the next task, using the History Brush.
The History Brush and the Art History Brush also appear slightly strange to use at first.
With the previous image open, select the History Brush (as shown left).
The History Brush, 'restores' the pixels from the image as it was in its original state. Try brushing over the pattern stamp you have just added and see what happens!
The Art History Brush is somewhat more mysterious. It uses the images original pixels, but according to the Options set for the tool, it will 'paint' those pixels distorted according to the brush and settings applied. It is useful if you want to use a filter like effect, but only on part of an image, not the whole layer. Try it out on a fresh copy of the retouch girl image.
Don't forget to save versions of the retouched image with new file name(s) and then create your evidence sheet with different versions of the image and the original.