How to use the clone stamp and spot healing tools in photoshop for SHHS digital photography classes

1. Clone Stamp and Spot Healer
Photoshop Tools

2. Make a Folder
• Make a Folder Called “Photoshop Practice”
and save these images there.

3. Open the distracting background
picture in Photoshop

4. Make a copy of the background
Hint: drag
background
layer to new
layer tab (next
to the trash)

5. Select Clone Stamp Tool
It looks like a
rubber stamp

6. Clone Stamp Tool
Option Click in the picture to select a
sample point. Imagine you’re painting
over the part of the image you don’t
want. Instead of dipping a brush in
pain, you’re dipping it in another part
of your image. Choose pixels that will
match.
We want to use the sky to cover up
the distracting plant. So click in the
sky. You can option click to change
your sample point as much as you
want.
Control Click to change the brush
size.

7. Brush over the part you want to remove (in this picture the plant
coming out of his head)

8. Until it’s gone and your blending looks
natural

9. Spot Healing Tool – Open the acne
picture in Photoshop
The spot healing tool is similar
to the clone stamp tool.
Instead of you picking a
sample point, Photoshop
blends the area you want to
correct with similar pixels. It’s
more subtle then the Clone
Stamp.
It looks like
a Band-Aid

10. Paint over the spots you want to
remove
Let’s use this tool to clear his
skin up. Brush over any red
spots or blemishes.Where you
paint shows
up dark
while you’re
painting

11. Paint over the spots you want to
remove
Let’s use this tool to clear his
skin up. Brush over any red
spots or blemishes.Where you
paint shows
up dark
while you’re
painting

12. And watch them blend in
Let’s use this tool to clear his
skin up. Brush over any red
spots or blemishes.Where you
paint shows
up dark
while you’re
painting

13. Until They’re Gone…