ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a few of Photographer's favorite retouching techniques, some of which have never before been demonstrated or published. The healing brush offers a choice of blending modes. The Replace mode is identical to the clone stamp tool, except it allows photographers to merge film grain more reliably and smoothly around the edges of their brush strokes. The Lens Flare filter is ideal for adding realistic-looking lens flare effects to photographs or computer rendered images, as this filter allows photographers to apply the ghosting type patterns that are normally associated with camera lens flare. A Median rendering can be used to smooth out the differences found between individual exposures in a Stack and is most useful for processing a sequence of photographs that have been shot from the same angle. The Displace filter requires a separate displacement map image that it can reference when calculating the displacement.
