Retouching with the Patch Tool

By Michael Topham

Imaging skills

19 January 2009 15:02

The Patch Tool can be found in the Photoshop toolbox underneath the Healing Brush and it’s an extremely useful retouching tool. It works in a similar way to the Healing Brush and lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area inside the image. The Patch Tool matches the texture, lighting and shading of the sampled pixels, which in turn helps create seamless clones.

This video tip takes a close look at the Patch Tool and demonstrates how to set it up tool correctly in the options bar, before showing how effective it can be in removing unwanted distractions from your photographs.

The video is brought to you by Michael Topham, Technical Writer for Digital Photo and Photoanswers.