Photoshop: Blur Tool and Sharpen Tool

We began using the Blur tool and Sharpen tool . Here are some examples of what I produced.

Both tools together can alter the depth of field. This is what there are primarily used for.



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Blur Tool: (Size - 215px/Strength  - 85%)   used to blur the selected are of an image.

 

This was very easy to use and could be quite useful to those who need it.

Sharpen Tool: (Size - 46px/Strength - 50%) Used to give a selected image more focus.

This was difficult to use as we where told to use it sparingly, this meant I could not see much  progress for a while. This  requires  a bit more effort than the blur tool but I believe it can still be useful.

Here Is another image a chose myself.

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Photoshop: Spot Healing Tool, Healing Brush & Patch Tool (unfinished)

For this lesson we used the following tools

Spot Healing Brush Tool (J)

Healing Brush Tool (J hold down left mouse button)

Patch Tool (J hold down left mouse button)

The Spot Healing tool works like an eraser. Once an area has been highlighted the tool finds another point of the photograph nearby and it  to covers up the part you want erased with this nearby part. 

The Patch tool is more manual. first you circle the part you want erased (like the lasso tool) the you find the part you want it covered up once selected the system do the rest. 

The healing brush tool is a little more complicated to deal with. First you hold ALT then click on a part you want to cover up the parts you doesn’t want then you paste that part up where ever you want it. 

My feelings on these tools are below. 

Bird: 

On this photograph I used the Spot healing tool and the Patch tool. 

Here is the before and after 

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Comments: 

The spot healing tool is not perfect but it is useful if you want something quickly erased. I suggest using it on portraits like it was designed for.

The patch tool works better with this photo because it has a lot of backgrounds further comments on the patch tool are on my next photo.

Brick Wall:  

On this photograph I used the patch tool and the healing brush tool. 

Here is the before and after 

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Comments: 

The Patch tool is a little harder to work with on more detailed pictures like this. It takes a little more work but with patience you can still use this tool effectively.   

The Healing Brush tool is quite frustrating. To get it to work effectively it needs to be reset with a different patch every time you use it and it also needs work after to eliminate the shadows you might   encounter. More work goes into setting it up and fixing its damages to the photo then it does fixing the photo so I do not like this tool.