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some questions from earlier. Um, we have a request. If you could do a demo on how you had practically used the clone source with clipped option off. Did we do that? Um, that's kind of a preference, OK? And basically, what that comes down to is it comes down to if I want to clone this with clipped option off. Maybe I wanted to do the Statue of Liberty twin. I could go in and I could option click here. And with the clipped feature turned on, I could line her up right next to their so I could see exactly where the entire image is going to be lined up with a clipped feature turned on. All I see is what's inside the brush right here, you know, and to me, if I wanted to line this up here, I could just go in there and visually line it up like that. The clip feature just shows me the entire image. So I could say, Ok, you know, this looks lined up here. If I want to make her shorter, actually, we could do that. We could make her a smaller version by going in and controlling the within the heigh...

t here and reducing her down so that we could do a Statue of Liberty Light right here, right next to it. So we could go in and we could clone her in right over here. Hasn't she been through enough today? How's that? Uh huh. And she has been through enough, but she's been through a lot anyway. That's why she was put in charge of the harbor question from the chat room. How often do you think you will use the content where tool is part of your workflow? Well, when I first saw it, I tried. This parking lot was kind of one of the first things that I tried because they had a couple options in there. I wasn't so thrilled with it, but when I started walking through things like, um, this was fantastic, Um, and something like adding, the panorama in here is absolutely great. Oh, and by the way, here's one thing with a clone stamp tool, folks, is that when you have the clone stamp tool and you sample from one window here, it also allows you to go in and sample from one image and put it into another image. So if I truly wanted to go ahead and clone the Statue of Liberty in so that we had her guarding the harbour in San Francisco, Um, we could also go in and do that too, so I could put it right in there. And this allows me to clone from another image as well. Obviously, it would need a little bit of work to make it look like it was realistic. But just because I option clicked and picked a sample source from an image doesn't mean I can't go to another image and put it in there. Does that work? No, but you can do it. Just thought I'd show you. We have a request for you to use content aware on a human subject. Do you have any pictures of people today that you could? Oh, yes. That gentleman. Yes. I mean, you could use liquefy on this to, um What would we want to do with her? Could you remove his ear? Sure. Why not? Let's go in and remove his ear shift. Delete calls up, content aware. Fill you interesting. That's the clone stamp tools for Well, we did have a request. Um, to do an example of using content, aware on retouching hair, human hair. I guess this, um, like adding hair. It says congestion to an example of using content, aware on retouching a human subjects such as hair. Let's see how hair works. I'm going to guess that you're gonna get really random things going all over the place was the festively plumper. Let's see. So got to fill here and must go in and see if we can't do hair. Can you make put his ear back first. Okay, here we go. So I don't Well, you know, I don't, because if I go in and I try to do if I If I try to put hair in here, um, it doesn't know what to sample. Okay, The only way it could put here in here is if I had chopped out a section of his hair. Um, I'm literally gonna just put in a white square where it is okay. And now I'm going to use this to go ahead and do my content aware fill so that it can feel here in because you can't just say ok, randomly put hair over here because it's content aware it's aware of its surroundings. And so I do that. And so I added it back in. Um, how do I go back in and do it over here? I don't know, because if I go in and I select this portion here, it's going Teoh, know what there's hair on? You know these sides, but skin down here. Well, let's try it. What if you were just trying to die? What if you were just trying to fill in the hair a little bit? Well, if you're going to try to fill a hair and a little bit a little that I would dio would either do a copy and paste, and I would take his hair. Do you just do a copy and paste to put on its own layer and then work with blending it in? It looks awful, but trust me, you could make that look good. Blended. Well, I should have asked him that you asked me if I could go on and you know OK, so, you know, I'm just I'm using the eraser. So we do a quickie race on this as well. And, um, I want to kind of make it look like here down here. So I think what we're gonna do is I got to get a selection out of this so I can use his hair edges a mask here. So I'm gonna copy and paste this on to the new layer. Here is we get this all by itself, will go in, and we're just gonna go into channels here. Which one is gonna look the best for a selection here? Oh, you know what? Let's go back in and we're gonna use our refine edge. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna put our mask on here, and, um, I'm just gonna quickly do a selection on this, and we'll put a mask on here. There we go. Now I'm gonna go in with my refine mask tool, and I'm gonna get an edge out of here that I could use a selection to drop on. It was head. And so you choose that. Go under the masks panel right here, and I'm gonna work on masking the edge. We're using the refine mask, which is what we did last week. So I'm not selected. Refined radius here. I'm gonna clean up this edge a bit. Yeah, that looks good. And I want to turn this into a selection. Click. OK, there is my selection. So it kind of cleans that up. What am I going to do with this election? Well, I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna take this selection that I have here because I really don't care about this layer. Take the selection. I'm gonna move it over here, kind of and, uh, park it right there. Go ahead and could put a mask on there. So I get that edge. We're gonna get that hair edge right there. Now take that mask and that selection. Distort this a bit. Transform it. Kind of get us here and there a bit. This isn't a high res image, so I kind of blurred that a little bit too much. I'm gonna go with my brush on my mask here. Kind of bring back some of the Harry goodness that was lost. Ah, cross that out there. Kind of bring it in a little bit. Those two words should not be in a sentence together. Very goodness. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to clone on my on my mask. I wanted this to come over here. Some men actually going to go on to my team, asking him Use my clone stamp tool on my mask. And I got the ear waiting for me. That's the last thing that I clowned. So I'm just gonna clone the mask on here, and, uh, use my brush tool here to kind of soften that up a bit. So that's what I would dio. Yeah. No. Nice. Uh, well, he did it in two seconds. Well, yeah, yeah. You have somebody we're paying me. I'd spend at least five more seconds on it. So did you just brush with the hair? Is that what you did know? What I did is I actually went in here and here's my mask. And I actually cloned on my mask because what we see here is we see what the mask is basically showing me, you know, hiding in portions and showing portions of it and all we have all we basically see here is this. And that's why when in selected the hair and did the refine edge there, and I just wanted this particular portion of the mask to come over here to duplicate that section of the masks so that they would continue masking out there in that way. So So, Jason, is that just it's just sampling the mass, Just sampling the mask. And so because a mask, it's just a black and white image. And so I could clone anything on the mask that I wanted. Teoh? Yeah. So here, I'll give you a good example. I'll put something on a layer here. Just we can see how this works. So we've got this layer. I'm gonna go in and I'm going. Teoh, do a, uh, I'll do a mask right here. Apply that mask. Invert that mask right there. Okay, So here's my mask right there and all that mask is it's just that little dot that just takes that out. So just masking this particular portion of it. If I wanted to, I could just clone that mask. So I click on this and used my clone stamp tool here. I could go in like, an option click right here. And of course I need to clone it at the right opacity. And at the right size here, Well, she can really get yourself lost. And so I could do that. I can Move that mask down and clone that portion of the mask here and give me the exact opposite here. So let me go back into my clone stamp tool. Here it is. I can choose the invert right there, which would now give me what it is that I wanted. Teoh sample. Why is that not inverting it? It's giving me the exact opposite there. I don't know why invert this. It's like that. No, no, it's no, it's odd that is giving you the exact opposite of what it is that I want. There. It shouldn't. That may be one of those restarts. Know that could be a bug. I don't know, because that doesn't make sense. Why you couldn't while you couldn't clone, why would get the inverse? If I invert this and I clone it, then I should get exactly the inverse which I am getting the inverse there. Someone is saying online. Do you need to change your foreground color? Uh, here it is. All right. I think I figured it out. I was on the actual mask in the channels there, So let me go in option click here. Turn off the invert. There we go. No, it shows the right one. But when I actually do it, it actually gives me the exact opposite. A couple other suggestions online cloning with black, or it only inverts the overlay. Well, I'm not cloning with black. I'm just cloning. This is no different than cloning a black and white image. I mean, this would be no different than going onto here and then cloning. What I see here been doing it that way. I'd be cloning exactly what I well, but I because I did this right on the actual layer itself and not on the mask. I have to figure that one out painting with the foreground color because I cloned with a mask before I'm not painting it all. Okay, using clones. So I'm literally taking what's existing in the image. So I've got to figure that out because I know and CS for you could so interesting. That's why we do this class. That's exactly why we do this class learning differences. Interesting. All right, Well, should we move on? Because I know Jason will sit there and play with that. I love to have fun like this, um, question from earlier from the chat room. Can you explain the difference between a spot healing brush and the healing brush tool? Sure, spot healing brush is used literally just to do spots. So if I wanted to go in and I wanted to fix any spots whatsoever, spot healing brush Ghozi and I have no input over what it is that I'm doing. If I can either choose proximity match content, aware, that's about it. Click and it looks all around and it tries to go in and fix those areas. Okay, me a little bit better image here. House. Let's do something like this. Here we go. Spot healing brush. Go in, fix it, fix it, spots go away. No control over you click. You can control the size of your brush and the hardness or softness the spot healing are the healing brush here tries to go in and it tries to match the tonal range of what it is that you're healing. So I want to go ahead and fix something, say under here. But I have the shadow going on, and it's not going to match if I clone it. If I source from over here and then clone under here, I'm gonna get to different values. So what happens is is I notice here that it's got a lot of gravel here, but not enough over here. And I want to make it look more gravelly under here, but in the shadow, using the clone stamp tool would be really difficult. Using the spot healing brush would just get it out. So, using the healing brush, this allows me to go in and sample. I actually have to go in an option click to sample a portion here, so I'm an option click, and I'm in a sample. This I'm gonna painted in over here now. Obviously, if I was using the clone stamp tool, this would look awful. You could clearly tell that I knew nothing about what I was doing. Spot there. The healing brush takes one. It is that I've sampled and painted you let go, and what is going to try to do is going to try to heal it into the surroundings. It's gonna take into account what's going on in the surroundings and see how it kind of softens those edges and blends them in. That tries to keep the pattern and tries to actually heal it in. So if you have something, you know, I think the bark would work really good on this tree. I want to know Hell, this tree sample from over here paint over on this one here is going to try to blend that into the surroundings as best it can. Actually, Here's the head. One will open this. We'll wait for it open, I guess. Yes. Open it up. Okay, so here's how the healing brush works really well, this is probably the best example right here. If I just choose the spot healing brush and run over this, it'll kind of hell it in. And it will make it look like I still have a scar spot. Healing, brother. That Sorry. The healing brush. I can go in and I can sample on. This is very important. See how the skin it's very different down here with a pattern of the skin than it is right here. I want to take this pattern of the skin, but I want to match the color on the tonal range two over here. Option click. Using the healing brush I painted in and obviously the tonal range doesn't quite match, but the pattern is going to be pretty good. Now. They let go, and it heals in a lot better, so it literally tries to heal. I call this the Neosporin brush, where you put it in. So it's a cross between the spot healing brush, which literally just click, takes into the surroundings, puts it right in healing brush, takes into the surroundings, takes consideration of the surroundings but keeps the pattern in the texture and then tries to heal it in by adjusting the hue, saturation and lightness to fit it right in to what it is that you want. The clone stamp tool literally just copies from one place and puts it another place, and you have complete control over that. It was kind of the middle of the two, and it's also non destructive as well. I could put this on a new layer because I have the option to sample all those layers, which allows me to put it onto a blank layer. A little sample all the layers in there, so spot healing brush would be perfect for something like this. Takes care of that healing brush to do the scar there and then the clone stamp tool if I wanted to go in and, you know, plum something in or out. So I have a question, um, for myself, And it might be really beginner question. But when I'm using, are you open a reflector? When I'm using? I'm using these tools, and I'm sometimes I get carried away about, you know, if a few inches from where I'm dragging, right mouse, there'll be a streak. Yes. And what is that? What is that? Cause buyer. Why does that happen? Usually? Ah, human error. But my clicking And is it because I'm quickly, You know, I noticed on some of these mice, they have, um, under system preferences here. Some of the newer machines in the newer mice they actually have, like, Velocity Scroll or something. I don't have the newest mouse, but the newest mouse actually think it's called Velocity Scroll. Whereas if you, you know, just kind of swept the mouse across your desktop there thing will continue moving right after you've lifted out of the mouths off. And so just like, um, I think they have smart scroll here, too. Yeah. See, scrubby zoom where I could if I do Scrubby, zoom, scrubby zoom goes like this. And sometimes you know, if I do it too fast there it just kind of goes along. Or if I use my But you know what I'm talking about, right? How it'll it'll make a streak like right, OK, you'll be going along. And so you've got your spot healing brush here and you do something and it seems like it will go all the way off. Well, it will do that. And then a few inches over, there'll be another street like where I'm not anywhere near I'm not. Wow, you know what I'm saying? It'll be like a double streak. Know that I don't know what you're saying. Really? Yeah, that's that's really, really weird. Unless you're doing a large area fixing a large area, I can't imagine why you would get now, just even a small like little dude. It'll be two inches over another. So you get to you'll get yeah, wow, because I know there is a problem with Photoshopped. Depending on what resolution you set your screen at, you can actually kept bad registration like when you're doing the pen tool, you'll be clicking over here and the point will be appearing over here. So everything is like this far off, and that's a screen resolution issue. And it's the weirdest thing. It makes you feel really, really not smart. What, you're trying to click on the point you can't you click half an inch away from it. All of a sudden, the point activates. Maybe you have a screen resolution problem. Yes, someone says Double Rainbow. That's what it's like a double Rambo, like winning the lottery tries and then finding out that you didn't. Twice. We have a request that you explain. Scrubby zoom. Sure, scrubby zoom is before when we'd used a zoom tool Here, you have to physically drag across the area that you want to zoom into, or you can just simply click. Um, scrubby Zoom allows you to take your zoom tool here and when you go right or left our upper left up like you're dragging to create a selection that allows you to go ahead and zoom in and out. So, like that so scrubby zoom, you click on something and you pull lower right upper left, and it zooms in and out with a non scrubby zoom, I would have to simply click and drag over the area that I want to zoom into. Scrubby zoom is nice, but you got to get used to it. And we have a request that you talk about when to use a patch tool versus the content aware tool patch tool. Oh, you know, the patch tool is kind of interesting. Patch tool is from kind of the precursor to content aware. It's kind of like the little brother that didn't quite go to college, you know? So what the patch tool does is allows me to patch areas that I want to kind of cover up. And this is kind of tricky because we have two items here in the control bar that you can set your options, source and destination when I go in and I use the source. But when I'm using my patch tool, that means when I draw over a source area, I'm literally gonna drag that source area to another portion, and then it goes and it tries to fix it. I don't quite get that how that works. Well, I do. But I choose the destination which allows me to sample an area like this and then drag it to a destination, and it kind of tries to heal itself in so content aware, maybe that would be good for the hair. You know, using the patch tool for the hair is dragging that over, but that's what the patch tool does. Let's try that with the hair. Get rid of his hair that was here. We'll try to patch tool. So if I choose the source here, that would mean I would start here in defining the source and then drag it over to a destination to bring the destination in. I don't think that way. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag the hair that I want on to. Let's make sure I got the destination and I dragged the hair the to pay over there and let it blend in to the destination. Well, it's getting there a little bit more Rogaine. Okay, the photo shop hair club for men. Yeah, well, I do. I do like the way it changes the color of the hair to try and match. The rest of it does. I mean, it is it's definitely the precursor to content aware fill. It doesn't look natural, but it No, it looks like he had a bleaching accident. Uh huh. And he caught it before it crept all the way back. So it actually did a much better job than I did trying to blend this in. Even though we see where these things are, probably still need toe create a mask to mask that out. Um, but you can see a lot of duplication in here as well. Event. So I have a personal question for you. Do you prefer doing photo retouching or to work on photo restoration? It doesn't matter. I just love photo shop. So whatever it may be, yeah. Good answer. Thank you. Do any more questions, David. I don't think I dio I think what you've been showing has been so stunning that we don't quite know what what to ask about. People are aghast. Special. It's Statue of Liberty flexing her arm. There is a question. Um, someone showed how to drag and drop a selection from document to the tab of another document rather than copy and paste very easily. Like demonstration. Okay. Um so let's see here what I want to do What A My God. Um, let's put Statue of Liberty in the parking lot here. Um, I can go when I can take a selection. And, of course, to move a selection, all they do is make a selection. Take my move, tool. And I'm able to go in there and move that. I'm going to cycle through my views here by using F which the cycles through all of my, uh, screen modes here, some in standard screen mode. And when I'm in the tab format here, just like in all the other types, are all the other versions of Photoshopped. When you had all your images side by side, you can just drag and drop from one to another. You do the same thing here. I'm gonna take the Statue of Liberty here, and I'm going Teoh put it into the parking lot. The store. So here's my parking lot right here. And here is liberty. I'm gonna take my selection with my move tool. Drag that selection onto the tab that I want to bring it into. Hold it there. Second that Tabal switched to the image that I want that I dragged at down into the image. And there I have it so he could put it behind here. And then we could go in and we could mask that off. Invert that mask. Use my magic wand tool. And it's the last part of what you showed that. Um uh, at least for me I didn't get it first. Was, you have to not only drag it up to the tab, but then you have tow pause and then drag it back down into the new image. That in the pauses What? Yeah, the pause is what gets people. That's the thing people are like. Oh, my gosh. How did that happen? And you have you have you have to hold their paws. Well, that's content aware fill. I guess we have to go ahead and merge these layers together in order to make it so that I could actually do my content aware fill with that sky. I think what's gonna happen is going to go ahead and is going to select this portion. Okay. Goodbye, Liberty. Ouch. So, yes, that is correct. Bruce, take that selection. Drag it onto the name of the tab there. Hold it for a second until you see it and then drag it back down in. But I was forgetting was dragging it back down. I would drag it up to the tab and let go, and nothing would happen. He was one of those kids that left the refrigerator door open all the time. Probably. Yeah, I do it now. That's why it doesn't make sense. Question from the chat room. Um, what is that about? What is that about the last thing cloned in the brush? How does that source work? Oh, if I used the clone stamp tool and I decide that, um, I was working on the torch of the Statue of Liberty here. I option click. And that's what I see in the brush here. Um, I don't have to limit that to the image that I'm working on here. I can come over here with a clone stamp tool as well. And this was done. Let's see. I gotta get 16 bit mode. Here we go. Has to be the same mode. Um, I had option clicked from the Statue of Liberty here, and here's my clone stamp tool that I was able to now clone into overlooking San Francisco Bay because I can clone from one image to another. Cool, very cool e. I didn't know I could see New York from San Francisco. Well, on the Empire State, I guess you can see almost anywhere. Yes, yes, indeed. So I have a question for an audience member. What do you think, Jordan? A little bit more than you can do in your photo shop classes and question. Is that feature CS five Specific? No, it's not close. It's It's the clone source to all specific. I don't know how far it goes back, but I know it goes back years, okay?