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Chapter 3

Mending and blending

Photoshop repair work

 

Most people tend to think of Photoshop as a program for retouching photographs. Photoshop can do a lot more than that these days, but retouching is what it's best known for. In this chapter we wanted to focus on a few of our favorite retouching techniques, some of which have never before been demonstrated or published. Some of these techniques are quite involved and require a certain level of expertise, while others are actually quite simple and suggest some interesting shortcuts for correcting photos.

Healing brush modes

The healing brush offers a choice of blending modes. The Replace ...

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