Monday, April 4, 2011

What Does the Touch Up Tool Do?

The Photoshop Online Express Editor comes with a touch up tool.  The touch up tool does exactly that, touch up.  The touch up tool is very useful for adjusting pictures of people, specially close ups.  Using the touch up tool, you can enhance faces by hiding freckles or moles or in other words, smoothening faces.

To use the touch up tool, click on touchup from the Edit tools on the left hand side of Photoshop express editor. Select the area you want to enhance and select the area you want to copy from:


The green circle indicates the are where the touch up will be applied and the red circle indicates which area the touch up will copy from.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

What Does the Exposure tool do?

The exposure tool simply adjusts the image's brightness.  Photoshop has 6 different settings for the exposure.

Here is the original image without applying any changes:


Click on the Exposure tool on the left side of the screen under the Basic tools, this will bring up the screen where you can choose from the different exposure settings.

Here is how the same picture will look with the different settings:

This is the picture with the first exposure setting applied.

This is the picture with the second exposure setting applied.

This is the picture with the third exposure setting applied.

This is the picture with the fourth exposure setting applied.

This is the picture with the fifth exposure setting applied.

This is the picture with the sixth exposure setting applied.

As you probably noticed, the settings are arranged from darkest to brightest exposure.




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