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SKY TEST

Now, even though I’m a portrait retoucher, I don’t want to

leave out all my landscape photographers out there, because

these tools and how they react to the Diffusion slider are

important for you, as well. In the image above, let’s pretend

I want to get rid of the one, big cloud in the sky. This area

(the sky) has completely different characteristics than skin

texture does—it’s smooth with lots of minute color gradi­

ent shifts and has absolutely no noise or texture in it. Thus,

the Diffusion slider value that will work best for this may be

different! Let’s find out. We’re going to try to use the Patch

tool to remove the cloud using two different values for our

Diffusion slider, first using a value of 1 and again using a

value of 7 to see which one looks best.

Step One: First, duplicate the Background layer by pressing

Command­J (PC: Ctrl­J). Then, select the Patch tool by press­

ing Shift­J, until you have it.

Step Two: Next, make sure your Patch tool settings are set

to the Option Bar settings shown below. Please note that

the Diffusion slider is set to a value of 1.

Step Three: We can now draw a circle around the cloud,

and then click­and­drag the area with the cloud directly to

the left to remove the cloud.

Kristina Sherk