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Cleaning up with the Patch tool

Cleaning up with the Patch tool - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Cleaning up with the Patch tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'm going to share a little morsel of information that has nothing whatsoever to do with Camera Raw. And it involves a healing tool that works by selecting portions of the image called the Patch tool. And the reason I didn't show it to you in the previous chapter, is because unlike the Spot Healing Brush and the Standard Healing Brush, the Patch tool insists upon making destructive modifications. But in our case that's just fine because we're working with a flat image. Now the problem with this elk image is I'm still not believing the modification. We have some areas here that don't quite make sense. So what I'm going to do here is zoom on in and then I'll click and hold on whatever healing brush tool is showing up in this slot and I'll choose the Patch tool from the fly-out menu. And you use the Patch tool essentially just like the Lasso tool. Just drag around the portion of the image that is offending you and then you go ahead and drag that selection to…

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