LESSON 9:

THE EFFECT TOOLS

 Using Crop Tool

Cropping entails cutting away

background clutter or endless
expanses of empty space in order to
focus in on your desired subject.
 Crop tool

The most popular way to crop an

image is by using the Crop tool. This
simple tool is as easy and effective to
use as a T-square.
 Using Crop Tool

1. Select the Crop tool in the Tools panel

or press C on the keyboard.
2. With the Crop tool, drag around the
part of the image you want to keep,
and then release your mouse button.
 Using Crop Tool

3. Adjust the cropping marquee by

dragging the handles.
4. Double-click inside the cropping
marquee.
Cropping with the Marquee Tool
Cropping with the Marquee Tool

Trim Command
• Choose Image > Trim and a dialog
box appears.
• Select Transparent Pixels (for
layered images), Top Left Pixel Color
or Bottom.
 Using Stamp Tool

Clone stamp tool

With this tool, we can create a similar
duplicate copy. This tool takes the
sample of the image and applies it over
the other image or a part of the same
image.
 Using Stamp Tool

1. Select the Clone Stamp Tool then go to the

target and select the sample piece by left-
clicking the mouse and holding the Alt
button. Then, go to the other image and
apply by just clicking it.
 Using Stamp Tool

2. To remove the damage area, select

the Clone Stamp Tool. Hold the Alt
button and click on the sample area
which you want to place on the
damage frame.
 Using Stamp Tool

3. After selecting the sample area, go to

the damage area and just click on it.
The selected sample will be placed
on that area.
 Using Stamp Tool

Before After
 Using Healing Tool

The Healing brush lets you

correct imperfections in your
photographic image in a similar way
to the clone stamp tool.
 Using Healing Tool

1. Your Healing Brush

Open up your image and select the
Healing Brush Tool from the Tools
panel.
 Your Healing Brush

Before After
 Using Healing Tool

2. Healing Brush settings

To avoid harsh and obvious healing,
expand the Brush dropdown menu
and change the Diameter of your
brush in relation to the size of area you
want to blend away.
 Using Healing Tool

3. Healing Brush Size

 Using Healing Tool

4. Your Modes
You can use the Healing Brush
with various blending modes. This
can be particularly helpful if you
want to keep your healed areas
subtle.
 Using Healing Tool

5. Applying your Heal

 Using Healing Tool

6. Keep Sourcing
If you find your Healing Brush
hasn’t blended exactly then simply
redefine your source area, keep one
finger on the Alt key at all times so you
can alternate between sourcing and
blending.
 Using Spot Healing Brush

1. Spot Heal Settings

The spot healing brush is great for
small troublesome areas that only
need a bit of attention.
 Using Spot Healing Brush

2. Painting Over
Simply paint over the area you want
to fix. The area will turns dark grey but
as soon as you lift your mouse.
 Using Dodge and Burn Tools

 Dodge tool – lighten pixels in an

image.
 Burn tool – darkens the pixels of an
image.
 Using Dodge and Burn Tools

1. Highlight Mode
 Using Dodge and Burn Tools

2. Midtones Mode
 Using Dodge and Burn Tools

3. Shadow Mode
 Using Dodge and Burn Tools

3. Burn Mode
 Applying Brightness/Contrast Commands

The Brightness / Contrast

command lets you make simple
adjustments to the tonal range of an
image.
 Applying Brightness/Contrast Commands

In Normal mode, brightness/contrast

applies proportionate adjustments to
the image pixels, as with Levels and
Curves adjustments.
 Applying Brightness/Contrast Commands

1. Do any of the following:

• Choose Image > Adjustments >
Brightness/Contrast
• Layer > New Adjustment Layer >
Brightness/Contrast > OK
• Choose Brightness/Contrast icon in
the Adjustments panel.
Applying Brightness/Contrast Commands

2. Drag the sliders to adjust the

brightness and contrast.
  Adjusting Tonal Range

By default, the Output sliders are at

level 0, where the pixels are
completely black and level 255 where
the pixels are completely white.
  Adjusting Tonal Range

1. Do one of the following:

• Choose Image > Adjustments >
Levels
• Layer > New Adjustment Layer >
Levels > OK
• Adjustments panel > Levels icon
  Adjusting Tonal Range

2. To adjust tones for a specific color

channel, choose an option from the
Channel menu.
  Adjusting Tonal Range

3. To adjust the shadows and highlights

manually, drag the black and white
Input Levels sliders to the edge of the
first group of pixels on either end of
the histogram.
  Adjusting Tonal Range

Adjusting black and white points with Levels Input sliders

  Adjusting Tonal Range

4. To adjust midtones, use the middle Input

slider to make a gamma adjustment.
  Adjusting Tonal Range

Moving the middle slider adjusts the image gamma

  Adjusting Tonal Range

5. Click OK. You can view the adjusted

histogram in the Histogram panel.
 Adjusting Hue and Saturation

The Hue/Saturation command lets

you adjust the hue, saturation and
brightness of a specific color
component of an image or
simultaneously adjust all the colors in
an image.
 Adjusting Hue and Saturation

You can save

settings in the Hue or
Saturation dialog box
and load them for
reuse in other
images.
 Apply Hue/Saturation Command

1. Do one of the following:

• Image  Adjustments  Hue /
Saturation.
• Layer  New Adjustment Layer 
Hue / Saturation > OK
• Adjustments panel >
Hue/Saturation icon
 Apply Hue/Saturation Command

2. Choose which colors to adjust using the

Edit pop‑up menu:
• Choose Master to adjust all colors at
once.
• Choose one of the other preset color
ranges listed for the color you want to
adjust.
 Apply Hue/Saturation Command

3. For Hue, enter a value or drag the

slider until you are satisfied with
the colors.
 Color wheel

1. For Saturation, enter a value or drag

the slider to the right to increase the
saturation or to the left to decrease it.
 Color wheel

2. For Lightness, enter a value or drag

the slider to the right to increase the
lightness (add white to a color) or to
the left to decrease.
 Applying Color Balance

The Color Balance command

changes the overall mixture of colors
in an image for generalized color
correction.
 Applying Color Balance

1. Make sure the composite channel is

selected in the Channels panel. This
command is available only when
you’re viewing the composite channel.
 Applying Color Balance

2. Do one of the following:

o Image  Adjustments  Color
Balance
o Layer  New Adjustment Layer 
Color Balance > OK
o Adjustments panel > Color Balance
Icon
 Applying Color Balance

3. Select Shadows,
Midtones or Highlights
to select the tonal
range in which you
want to focus the
changes.
 Applying Color Balance

4. Optional: Select Preserve Luminosity

to prevent changing the luminosity
values in the image while changing
the color. This option maintains the
tonal balance in the image.
 Applying Color Balance

5. Drag a slider toward a color that you

want to increase in the image. Drag a
slider away from a color that you
want to decrease in the image.
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

As the pixels get more blurry, the

more you need a stronger blur to see
the effect. But since the strength is at
maximum, the tool just appears to
come to a halt.
Using Blur and Sharpen Tool
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

To boost the Blur tool’s power, you

need to edit the Spacing settings for the
brush. The default 25% spacing is often
not enough. Reducing the Spacing means
an increase to the flow of the effect, so
blurring is given a boost.
Using Blur and Sharpen Tool
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

In Darken mode, blurring parts of an

image creates an eerie dark glow around
objects.
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

Setting it to Lighten mode does the

opposite and creates a light glow or halo.
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen tool is used to selectively

sharpen pixels in an image..
 Using Blur and Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen tool works best when the

Strength slider is kept low especially on
photographic images or those that have
been compressed using glossy compression
such as JPEG.
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