Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools
In this section, we'll look at how to correct the tones, imperfections, and the look of a simple beauty shot, step-by-step.
During this process, you'll learn how to use both the Spot Healing Brush tool and the powerful Clone Stamp tool, one of the original and, in my opinion, best retouching tools in Elements. The Clone Stamp tool was inherited from Adobe Photoshop in the years before Photoshop even contemplated being part of Creative Cloud.
In effect, the Clone Stamp tool is little more than a copy-and-paste tool. It works in a similar way to a word-processing application, where you might copy and paste a paragraph of text from one part of a document to another, except that it copies pixels rather than text.
The key point to remember when using the Clone Stamp is that you first need to identify a clear Source area. This is an area where the "good" pixels are copied from. If you can find an area...
