Photoshop: Spot healing

Spot healing.

I looked at the spot healing tool, which is located in the left hand bar and is a little icon that looks like a plaster, I selected this tool which then brought up various options such as changing the size od the brush and the hardness.

After I had selected my desired tool, I then used the top tool bar to select my options, these were; "Proximity match" this samples the areas around your cursor and uses this information to know what colours should be changed and what shouldn't necessarily be there. I then also selected "Sample all layers" which allowed Photoshop to 'see through' all the layers.

I used the spot healing tool in this example to remove all the dog hair from the floor and leave a clear ground that the dog is stood on, I believe this makes the photograph look neater, and takes away the distraction, helping emphasis the main subject the dog.

Photoshop: Clone stamp

   Clone stamp. 

The clone stamp is an icon on the left hand side of Photoshop that looks like a little stamp, the keyboard shortcut is (s). The purpose of the clone stamp is to cover up any errors you want by cloning a selection of the image and copying over the desired area you want to change.

Before.

I highlighted the clone stamp here,  and uploaded a picture of my work to Photoshop, to practice on it, I will remove the signature using the clone stamp and cover is with another area of the page.

After.

I edited the photo by using selecting specific areas of the page using "alt" and click to elect a colour from photo, I then used this colour to cover over the signature, given the lighting and shades of the page the colour was hard to manipulate and I would prefer to use a different tool for this if I were to do it again.