![]() ![]() When you use the Healing Brush tool, you can define the area of an image that you want to clone. When retouching blemishes, or other imperfections, you can either click once, or click and drag to smooth away imperfections in an area.Ĭlick and drag with the Spot Healing Brush tool. Notice that the Spot Healing Brush tool retouches in such a way that it quickly removes the freckle. Resize the brush so that it is slightly larger than the freckle on the chin of the girl.ĥ Click and drag to paint over the freckle on her chin, and then release the mouse button. Having the Caps Lock key activated puts your cursor into precision mode, thereby preventing you from visually setting your brush size.Ĥ Press the ] (right bracket) or [ (left bracket) key to make your brush size larger or smaller respectively. Make sure that your Caps Lock key is NOT depressed. In the next step, you will choose a brush size to retouch with. You want to make sure you catch the small tooth and the area to the right of her mouth, as well as the chin.Ĭlick and drag around the girl’s lower jaw to zoom into that region.ģ From the Toolbox, select the Spot Healing Brush tool ( ). Now that you have corrected the tonal values, you will use some of the retouching tools to clean up the faces of the girls.ġ In the Layers panel, select the Background layer to make it active.īe sure to activate the Background layer before using the retouching tools.Ģ Using the Zoom tool ( ), click and drag over the lower section of the girl’s face, in the lower-right area of the image. The adjustment layer effects are blocked where the black appears. Finally, remove the selection by choosing Select > Deselect.Ĭhoose to fill your selection with black. Because you feathered your adjustment, it is faded into the rest of the image. Essentially, you are blocking the lightening adjustment that you made on the initial adjustment from occurring in the girl’s face, and so her face is darkened. Where the black is on the mask, the image is no longer adjusted. The layer mask now has a black feathered area. Leave it at the defaults, as shown below, and press OK. Look at the bottom of the Toolbox to verify that the black (foreground) color is in front of the white (background) color.ħ Choose Edit > Fill Selection the Fill Layer dialog box appears. By pressing X, you switch the foreground and background colors. You will now use your selection to block that adjustment from occurring around the girl’s face.ĥ To make sure that the adjustment layer’s mask is selected, click once on the mask of the Levels 1 layer in the Layers panel.Ħ Press D on your keyboard to set the foreground and background colors to their default black and white colors. If you remember, you lightened the entire image when you created the initial layer mask. You will now take advantage of the Adjustment Layer mask (the white rectangle) that sits to the right of the adjustment you made, in the Layers panel. Press OK.įeather the selection to soften the adjustments you will make. This softens, or vignettes, the selection so that any corrections you make (within that selection) blend into the rest of the image more smoothly. You can view the changes in your selection by keeping an eye on the mask.Ĥ Click and drag the Feather slider to the right to about the 30-pixel position. This reveals your selection, as the clear area in the red (default mask color) mask. Press the Custom Overlay Color button ( ) in the bottom-left corner of the Refine Edge dialog box. Note that you need to have a selection tool active in order to reposition the selection without moving the pixel information.ģ Choose Select > Refine Edge. You can reposition the selection by clicking and dragging it. Click and drag from the upper left area of the girl’s face to the lower-right area to make a selection that surrounds her face. In this example, you will select and darken the face of the girl in the front right of the photo.ġ Click and hold down the Rectangular Marquee tool ( ) and select the hidden Elliptical Marquee tool ( ).Ģ Focus on the girl in the bottom right of the image in the foreground. Now that you have lightened the image, you will make a selective adjustment to just one section of the image, using the selection tools. Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Making a selective change using the adjustment layer’s mask in Photoshop Elements It is the eighth lesson in the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Digital Classroom book. This tutorial provides you with a foundation for working with Adobe Photoshop Elements selective changes. What you’ll learn in this Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Graphic Design for High School Students. ![]()
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