How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
65. How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:24 2Before you get Started with the Photoshop Advanced Course
01:28 3The Easiest Way in the World to Mask a Person in Adobe Photoshop
24:23 4Class Project - Select Subject
01:41 5Select Mask & Changing a Color using Photoshop - Color Range
10:00 6Using Photoshop Selection to Fix Grass & Sky - Color Range
07:20How to Change the Color of Skin in Photoshop - Color Range
08:05 8How to Create an Ink Splash Image Around Text - Color Range
15:02 9Class Project - Color Range in Adobe Photoshop
01:54 10Mask on a Group Rather than each Layer
11:18 11Advanced Masking using a Channels in Adobe Photoshop
14:14 12Class Project - Channel Mask
01:30 13How to Make Selections in Photoshop Based on the Focus Area
22:53 14Class Project - Focus Area
01:11 15Selection Trick Using the Smudge Tool in Photoshop
04:16 16Future of Selections in Photoshop with Adobe Sneaks
07:04 17Quiz - Selection & Masking
18Advanced Preference Changes for Adobe Photoshop
08:36 19How to Speed up Adobe Photoshop if it’s Running Slow
07:48 20Workflow Tips & Tricks Like a Professional in Photoshop
13:45 21Advanced Layer Tricks in Adobe Photoshop CC
05:58 22Automatically Add a Watermark Text or Logo in Photoshop
08:29 23Batch or Image Process Multiple Images at Once in Photoshop
09:05 24How to put Loads of Images into one Photoshop File Quickly
07:04 25Weird Adobe Photoshop Features & Easter Eggs
06:37 26How to Enlarge Images Without Becoming Blurry in Photoshop
06:57 27How to Fix Blurry Images in Photoshop Using Shake Reductions
08:17 28Advanced Color & Tone Correction Using Levels in Photoshop
06:44 29Advanced Curves in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:34 30Quiz - Fixing Images
31How to Reshape Images Without Distorting in Photoshop Content Aware Scale
09:44 32How to use Content Aware Move in Photoshop
08:38 33How to use Content Aware Extend in Adobe Photoshop
07:28 34Removing Objects Using Content Aware Fill in Photoshop
07:01 35Class Project - Content Aware Fill
01:03 36Cropping Tricks Delete Pixel & Reveal Cropped Content in Photoshop
06:11 37Automatically Crop & Rotate Scanned Documents in Photoshop
05:35 38Crop Angled Images to Straighten Perspective Cropping Photoshop
04:42 39How to Trim the White Away from the Edge of an Image in Photoshop
01:52 40Automatically Align Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:38 41How to Reshape Images using the Puppet Warp in Photoshop
18:10 42Class Exercise - Puppet Warp
01:14 43How to Change the Perspective in Photoshop Perspective Warp
05:47 44Quiz - Cropping & Aligning & Distorting
45How to Color Black & White Image in Photoshop
09:42 46How to Create a Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:28 4744. Class Project – Duotone in Adobe Photoshop
02:20 48How to create the Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
07:01 49Class Project - Glitch Effect in Adobe Photoshop
00:44 50Color Grading with Orange & Teal Effect in Adobe Photoshop
05:36 51Class Project - Color Grading in Adobe Photoshop
00:49 52Quiz - Color
53Advanced CC Libraries Tricks and Tips Photoshop
19:15 54Advanced Type Trick & Workflows in Adobe Photoshop
19:38 55Photoshop Can Guess your Font Using Match Fonts
10:43 56Quiz - Typography
5752. Adding Artboards to your Photoshop Workflow Properly
05:24 58How to Add Images Correctly to a Photoshop Artboard
08:17 59Using Smart Objects & Relinking Images in Photoshop
04:10 60Advanced Speed Tricks for Updating Artboards in Photoshop
04:09 61Export Artboards as PDF & Separate JPGs in Photoshop
05:38 62Quiz - Artboards
63Advanced Tricks for Healing Brush for Retouching in Photoshop
08:24 64Don’t Forget About Clone Tool Stamp in Photoshop
06:09 65How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop
06:41 66Class Exercise – Retouching in Photoshop
01:15 67How to Retouch in Photoshop Using Face Aware in Liquify
06:50 68How to Use Vanishing Point to Mocking up Designs in Photoshop
12:19 69Vanishing Point - Cloning & Healing at an Angle in Photoshop
11:19 7064. Class Exercise - Vanishing Point in Photoshop
00:51 71Fixing & Retouching Skin Tone in Adobe Photoshop
06:01 72Retouching Eyes by Enhancing in Adobe Photoshop
08:00 73Retouching Eyes with a Little Bit of Fakery in Photoshop
09:00 74Fully Faking Believable Eyes in Adobe Photoshop
06:45 75Class Project – Eyes in Photoshop
00:51 7670. How to Realistically Whiten Teeth in Adobe Photoshop
11:44 77Class Project – Teeth in Photoshop
00:57 78Quiz - Retouching
79Difference Between Place Linked vs Place Embedded in Photoshop
08:22 80What is the Difference Between Fill & Opacity in Layer
01:11 81How to Use & Export Layer Comps in Adobe Photoshop
03:27 8275. How to Create a Double Exposure in Adobe Photoshop
11:07 83Class Project - Double Exposure in Photoshop
01:17 84How to Create a Watercolor Painting Effect in Photoshop
09:23 85Class Project – Watercolor in Photoshop
00:32 86How to Decay Pixel Explosion Dispersion Method in Photoshop
13:47 87How to Make Exploding Shoe Effect in Adobe Photoshop
10:49 88Class Project – Decay in Photoshop
00:51 89Quiz - Visual Styles & Effects
90How to Edit Video in Adobe Photoshop
25:42 91Parallax Effect to Make Photos Move in Photoshop
13:22 92Class Project – Parallax in Photoshop
01:15 93How to Create Live Images - Cinemagraphs in Photoshop
13:19 94Class Project – Cinemagraph in Photoshop
01:35 95How to Setup a File Ready for Web and UI Design in Photoshop
09:32 96How to Export Your Web Design UI Project for Dreamweaver
07:57 97How to Make 3D Text & 3D Logos in Photoshop
11:52 98How to Add and Change 3D Materials & Textures in Photoshop
08:42 99Using Cameras & Depth of Field in 3D Photoshop
05:12 100Adding Lights & Casting Shadows Using Photoshop 3D
10:01 101How to Export a High Quality 3D Image from Photoshop
04:42 102Class Project – 3D in Photoshop
01:08 103How to Create Fake 3D Lines & Type in Photoshop
09:33 104Fake 2.5D Gradient Effect with Paths in Photoshop
07:10 105Class Project - Fake 3D in Photoshop
00:46 106Using Free Templates & Adobe Market to Mockup in Photoshop
11:07 107How Make a Reusable Mockup in Photoshop Using Smart Objects
06:40 108Mockup Poster Against a Wall Using Photoshop
08:16 109How to Make a Simple UI App Web Design Mockup Using Photoshop
06:06 110Class Project – Mockups in Photoshop
01:00 111How to Proofing Colors in Adobe Photoshop Ready for Print
04:04 112How to Tidy Up your Photoshop Files Before Sending Them Out
10:21 113How to Package Your Photoshop File to Include Linked Images
07:22 1143 Kinds of File Export for Photoshop Social Media Web & Print
12:59 115Quiz - Exporting
116What’s Next After Your Photoshop Advanced Course
01:05 117Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to use the Patch Tool for Retouching in Photoshop
Hi there. Welcome to the patch tool video. What does it do? It's really good at duplicating people, but that's not its main use is really good for getting rid of large objects all in one go. It gets used quite a lot in retouching for removing things like bags under eyes. But there's just a lot of surface area to change. And my favorite use shiny dan, not so shiny, dan, shiny, shiny, shiny. It's great when you are stressed because you don't like getting photographed and there's people watching that you don't know, stressed an calm down, stress down, calm down. All right. I'm going to stop talking about myself in the third person and let's get into the patch tool. All right from your exercise files. Open up patch tool 12 and three. We're going to start with number one. So the skinny version is patch tool just removes things. It's like the spot healing brush with the clone tool stamp, but it has its own purpose. Let's say I'm using the spot healing brush and in another tutorial in the ess...
entials course, we just kind of painted people out that worked most of the time. But let's say this one here because this person crosses background here. We're just letting Photoshop guests. Right? And it's done a pretty good job. There's some messing down here, undo it and do it again though. It's kind of one of those tools where you've just got to cross your fingers and sometimes it's great and then sometimes really bad. So I'm gonna go back again. So the patch tool is hidden underneath the rest of these spot healing brush is and it's more about think of the patch to his intentionality. Like I I'm going to draw a box around the outside of him. I say box a squiggly line, click and drag around the outside. The good thing about it is make sure you set the source and then just click hold and drag and can you see what I'm doing here? I'm intentionally saying I want you to kind of use this area here, then let go. It is a very similar job but I give it some kind of boundaries. So I'm going to deselect there's a little bit of work there that I might go into with the spot healing brush. But to be honest, if I showed you this image beforehand, I bet you wouldn't notice. Sometimes I get a bit too hung up on doing details that like, is that a detail? No, that's just part of the original image. So I'm going to ignore it. Now. The one thing and what we've done in the previous tutorials is we all went okay, New layer and make sure it's selecting all the way up. Doesn't work. Okay, so you actually have to be on your original layer. So you should do a backup first, which I haven't done the quick way to do. It is either click and drag this down or just hold. Command J or control J on a Pc. And it's just whatever lay you've got selected or groups of layers that makes it duplicate already wrecked the bottom layer. So let's just carry on. The other thing to know about the patch towards this thing here. You're going to drag it around and I'm not very good with it. Okay this is a rectangle. I wish I could just use my rectangle tool and then switch to the patch tool and pull from there. Please come on. So you can use the last three tour all the quick selection tool, whatever you want. You don't have to use this kind of built in selection tool. The other thing to do with the patch tool, there's a few things we're going to learn about it. The other thing to know about it though is if I go to file revert fire reverts. Just a handy one. Nothing to do with the patch tool. Just get you back to when the document was last saved. Instead of going undo for a million times let's say it's got a kind of another use. So I've got my patch tool here. I'm gonna do the same thing squiggly line. Oh jeez okay that's not bad. Most of the time you want to use it to source this one here, you can use destination. So we're doing a different thing. Now we're saying instead of you kind of removing, I'm gonna drag him along here and watch this, there's a new guy I use that never but but it's there, we're getting advanced and you might have a really good use for it. Let's go to patch tool to. So in terms of retouching often it's the spot healing brush, a little bit of clone tool stamp, where with the patch tool, there's kind of two places it gets used and it's anything that's like a large part that needs to get updated. Okay. So we're actually gonna command j this one this time. Even going to call it retouch and I grabbed my lasso tool and I'm just gonna grab everything kind of underneath here instead of destination. Make sure it's on source, click hold and drag it to a nice bit of skin. Let go. I'm going to deselect you can see that. It's just nice for doing larger chunks if you've ever watched any Youtube channel on patch tool basically. This is the one thing that gets used for to add a little bit of extra awesomeness to it. I'm going to undo before I've done it. So I'm back here. I've done my selection. What I'm gonna do is a little known feature in Photoshop. It's not just a patch to wash this. I do this and it can get very fake very quickly because we do have wrinkles under our highs. Okay. So what we can do is first of all, it's what I want to show you is under edit and this one here says fade patch selection now this will say fade, whatever the last thing you did, that's really handy. It's like an undue but it's got an opacity slider. So that is I've done nothing and I can kind of find just a happy medium of like instead of it being perfect just a little bit here. The nice thing about that is if I click OK de select, I can a little bit of background through. I could do it lowering the opacity of the layer. If you're like, why don't you just do that? But that lets me do it per actual selection. So some of them you don't want it to be completely unf aided. So some of them you want to be faded more than others. So I'm gonna grab this. We're ignoring the chain store in the background and this one here I want to fade but I wanted to be not as much as the first one. The other trick here is command H And depending if you're using a Mac or PC, if you're using a Pc, it'll just work, it will remove the marching ants just temporarily on my MAC here. It's a shortcut that gets used both for Photoshop and for the Mac operating system. And it just says, hey, do you mean like hiding Photoshop or hide the extras when you want hide extras. The selection is still there. It's a command H. Toggles it back on and off and it just means when I do the fade because it's a little hard to see the edges. Okay, so if I go to fade now and I drag it back without that selection there, it just becomes a little bit handier. Find a happy medium and you can see you can kind of individually fade parts, you might find that useful. Okay, so it's great for large patches. Hence the patch tool, but I find it super useful is here's me shiny me. Okay, so the patch tool is really good at command J grab the patch tool. I'm gonna draw this around here, shiny bits of skin. It's really good for a couple of that. Give it more specific, grab this part. Good bye, shiny dan. Saying with the forehead here you I had a non shiny bit of forehead off. Let's turn that on and off. If you try and do it individually with the spot healing brush, you can get lucky for this member intentionality. The patch tool we said go here. Exactly. All right, patch tool that is you've done let's get into the next video
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Ratings and Reviews
Shah Nawaz
Amazing experience but it is little old. You should update with latest version of PS
Uli N
Great class, but outdated PS version. It was confusing sometimes. Some tools are not in PS anymore and more tools have been added which is not included in the course.
Nadim Rouf
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