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Discover the Patch Tool
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Discover the Patch Tool

If you're working on the same image and created a snapshot, go back to the original as shown and then you can continue working from scratch. The patch tool is similar to the Healing brush and is located underneath it in their toolbar menu...

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Discover the Magic Eraser
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Discover the Magic Eraser

The magic eraser tool can be a nice and quick tool to use in the right circumstances. Start out with a clean background image. This tutorial will help you to better understand it. I recommend that you duplicate the background layer first, by dragging it to the new layer icon...

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Discover Basic Filters
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Discover Basic Filters

There are plenty of filters that come with Photoshop naturally. In the Photoshop CS (8) there is now a filter gallery. This larger-than-life dialog box allows you to use filters a little bit like layers. This is covered in depth on the Discover Photoshop: CS Features CD...

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Discover Color Range Selection
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Discover Color Range Selection

To take the magic wand tool a little further and getting a more complicated selection check this tutorial out. If you have an image with frizzy hair this can cause difficulties. You can use the magic eraser to get rid of a simple background...

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Discover the Blur Tool
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Discover the Blur Tool

You can use the blur tool to...you guessed it...BLUR. It's a great tool to soften pixels up. As with several other tools, you can change the size of the blur brush and even choose a hardness setting...

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Discover the Sharpen Tool
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Discover the Sharpen Tool

The sharpen tool isn't all that effective but you should be aware of it. With it you can sharpen pixels within the area of the brush that you use (sound familiar?). Once again you'll have brush palette options so you can choose the size of the sharpen brush...

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Discover the Pen Tool & Paths
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Discover the Pen Tool & Paths

The pen tool can be quite difficult to actually master when using for advanced drawing including making curved paths but for now I'll give you an introduction to the Photoshop pen tool (& lead you into path editing) and how to use it to make a selection...

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Discover Path Editing
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Discover Path Editing

When you are signed up for the Educational Series you'll get the tutorial on how to create a path. Now I'm going to cover basic path editing. You can use the editing tools to modify your path/shape...

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