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Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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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 either the Clone Stamp or Spot Healing Brush is that you first need to identify a clear Source area. This is an area where the "good" pixels are copied from...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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