Winsor said:
That may be, but the healing brush, an additional PS tool, goes a step
beyond. Click on your source and drag the brush across an area and it
takes out all dust motes, hairs, facial lines etc, and then
automatically merges the repair into the target area matching color,
brightness, texture to the surroundings.
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Perhaps I should spend some more time with the healing brush since maybe
I haven't learned to use it effectively. My experience so far was that
for minor defects like dust spots and fine scratches in low detail areas
I could fix things faster in PWP with the clone tool.
For more serious problems (like a film scratch crossing through detail
in a straw hat, for example) the healing brush wasn't really up to the
task. My recollection is that, like the patch tool (which I do like and
use) the merging of surroundings may reach too far and draw undesired
elements into the repair and muddy the color or texture instead of
repairing it. But I shall have to try again. I initially avoided the
patch tool but now that I'm better attuned to its limitations I tend to
use it more. When it doesn't work well I use the clone tool and a mask.
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Walt said:
I don't have PS and have no experience with it, and to me the term
"layers" conjures up such things as onions, sedimentary rock formations,
chickens, or cake, so this may be a totally stupid question. (I'm good
with those.) Can't you accomplish pretty much the same thing in PWP
using masks and composites? Or am I just not understanding the concept
of something on a whole 'nother level of photo editing sophistication?
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Yes, I do believe that PWP can accomplish anything that you can do in PS
but PS layers may make it easier or quicker. For many things that one
does with layers, masks and composites are the answers in PWP. I will
also readily admit that I don't fully understand all that can be done
with PWP masks and composites just as I don't fully understand all the
ways to use layers in PS. My simplistic view of PS layers is that it is
similar to having an unlimited number of composites stacked on top of
each other with optional masking and each of the layers can be turned on
or off and independently edited at any time. For extensive editing
tasks (say a large group photo) If you independently edit parts of the
image on different layers it makes changing your mind about something
and re-editing a snap. You don't lose all of the other edits you may
have done.
Simple example: Last week I was editing a large group photo where there
were 6 people who had horrible reflections from their glasses such that
none of them had any more than 1/3 of the eye visible. Fixing the
problem required extensive rework for all 6 people which included
copying eyes from other people in the group. There was a lot of other
minor editing done (like cloning out one of the light stands and power
cords) but for each person with glasses I created a separate layer for
each because I knew it would be complex and prone to error. When I got
done I had the image reviewed by somebody else who noticed that the eyes
on the third person I had worked on simply didn't look quite right. By
rapidly turning the edited layer on and off like a blink comparator I
was able to see that the the newly created iris and pupils didn't quite
line up with the tiny bit of iris that was visible on the original. The
placement was only off by a couple of pixels but it made all the
difference in the world. I simply deleted that layer and recreated it
with the eyes shifted very slightly. That fixed it and all of the other
editing was preserved. Could you do this same editing job in PWP? Yes,
but not as easily if it was necessary to backtrack as I did in this case.
Once again, I don't pretend to be expert with the use of either tool and
I'll be very happy for anybody to point out how I can use either one of
them better than I am.
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