Red and white coastal church with the beginning of a beautiful sunset overheadĪfter you have finished, it is a good idea to switch your Clone Stamp Tool mode back to Normal so that you do not forget and are confused later why it does not appear to be working (the voice of experience talking). Although difficult to see, the halo in the next picture is gone. So, by clicking in a nearby spot in the sky and dragging your cursor over the halo, the brighter halo is replaced but the surrounding area (in this case the sky and the red roof) is left alone. Halo’s are usually brighter than the surrounding pixels. Anything darker or exactly the same luminosity level is level alone. With Darken mode, however, only the pixels that are LIGHTER than the source pixels are replaced. The pixels in the destination area are replaced with the source pixels. You simply alt-click on a source area and then brush over the destination area with the tool. You have probably used the Clone Stamp Tool before, so I will not go into detail here on that.
Lastly, make sure that the hardness of the brush is set to 0% and is a relatively small brush. Next, make sure that the Opacity and Flow of the Clone Stamp Tool are both set to 100%. There is a good chance that it is currently set to “Normal”. This is done using the pull-down box that you should see above your image after you have activated the tool. Switch the mode of the Clone Stamp Tool to “Darken”. With the top layer active, grab the Clone Stamp Tool, which you are probably already familiar with: You’ll then see a new layer appear on top of your layer stack. With Windows, you hit “Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E”. Let’s say that our layer stack looks like this… just the pixel layer and an adjustment layer on top.īecause you need a 100% opacity pixel layer on top, we will next do a “stamp visible”, which is a new layer that is a picture of all the other layers as they appear. To start out, you need a “pixel layer”, rather than an adjustment layer, at 100% opacity on top. Red and white coastal church with the beginning of a beautiful sunset overheadįortunately, halo’s are very easy to fix using a clever technique in Photoshop. It is even more pronounced on the left side of the chimney just under the red roof. You might have to look carefully, but there is a white line along the top of the red roof. They look bad, especially if you enlarge your image, such as for print.īelow is what one looks like. Both of these techniques, and especially when used together, can cause “halo’s”… or light lines that run along a transition zone, such as a horizon line or along the top of a mountain. It is also common to add sharpening to an image, which gets applied to edges. For example, many landscape photographers like their skies darkened. It is fairly common in landscape photography to post-process the sky differently than the foreground. Although this is an easy technique to explain and master, it is extremely useful. I learned this technique from a landscape photographer who is a true expert in post-processing.
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