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The Patch Tool

Author: Al Ward More by this author


To start, let's open a picture of many faces. Here's one of 3 ladies - let's see if we can't create triplets.

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Select the Patch Tool from the toolbar.

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In the options bar, you will see a couple of radial buttons that allow you to set the patch selection you are about to make as the source or destination. Let's set it to source for this run.

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Pick a face, any face. Draw your selection around the perimeter.

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Now go to Select>Feather, and put in a setting of 2 or so.

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You should now have a selection around the area you want to patch..

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Now this part may seem a bit confusing - it was for this old man anyway. Though we set it to source, what actually happens is we drag the selection to another face, and the face we dragged it to is pasted into the original selection.

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Now when we choose destination' and drag the selection, the face in the selection is pasted to the new area:

The Patch Tool Tutorial: Final Result



About the Author:

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Al Ward, a certified Photoshop Addict and Webmaster of Action FX Photoshop Resources (Actionfx.com) hails from Missoula, Montana. A former submariner in the U.S. Navy, Al now spends his time creating add-on software for Photoshop and writing on graphics related topics. Al has been a contributor to Photoshop User Magazine, a contributing writer for 'Inside Photoshop 6' and 'Special Edition Inside Photoshop 6' from New Riders Publishing, has co-authored 'Foundation Photoshop 6.0' from Friends of Ed Publishing, and writes for several Photoshop related websites. Al was also a panelist at the Photoshop World 2001 Los Angeles Conference, and contributes to the official NAPP website as the Actions area coordinator.
In his off time he enjoys his church, his family, fishing the great Northwestern United States and scouring the Web for Photoshop related topics.


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