Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [106]
Clearing the retouching work
You can remove individual retouch circles by selecting them and hitting the key. Or, you can click on the Clear All button to delete all retouch circles.
Turning off the preview
You can use the Preview option to toggle showing/hiding the spot removal retouching.
Synchronized spotting with Camera Raw
You can synchronize the spot removal tool across multiple photos. Make a selection of images in Bridge and open them up via Camera Raw (as shown in Figure 3.65 ). Now click on the Select All button. This selects all the photos and if you now use the spot removal tool, you can retouch the most selected photo (the one shown in the main preview), and the spotting work is automatically updated to all the other selected images.
Figure 3.65 Here is an example of the Camera Raw dialog being used to carry out synchronized spotting.
Keeping the sensor clean
Dust marks are the bane of digital photography and ideally you want to do as much as you can to avoid dust or dirt getting onto the camera sensor. I have experimented with various products and find that the Sensor Swabs used with the Eclipse cleaning solution from Photographic Solutions Inc ( www.photosol.com ) are reliable products. I use these from time to time to keep the sensors in my cameras free from marks.
Red eye removal
The remove red eye tool is useful for correcting photos that have been taken of people where the direct camera flash has caused the pupils to appear bright red. To apply a red eye correction, select the red eye removal tool and drag the cursor over the eyes that need to be adjusted. In the Figure 3.66 example I dragged with the mouse to roughly select one of the eyes. As I did this, Camera Raw was able to detect the area that needed to be corrected and automatically adjusted the marquee size to fit. The Pupil Size and Darken sliders can then be used to fine-tune the Pupil Size area that you want to correct as well as the amount you want to darken the pupil by. You can also revise the red eye removal settings by clicking on a rectangle to reactivate it, or use the key to remove individual red eye corrections. If you don't like the results you are getting, you can always click on the Clear All button to delete the red eye retouching and start over again.
Figure 3.66 Here is an example of the remove red eye tool in action.
Hiding the red eye rectangles
As with the spot removal tool, you can click on the Show Overlay box to toggle showing and hiding the rectangle overlays (or use the key).
Localized adjustments
We now come to the adjustment brush and graduated filter tools, which can be used to apply localized edits to photos in Camera Raw. As with the spot removal and red eye removal tools, you can revise these edits as many times as you like without having to render an interim pixel version of the raw master. Not only that, these are more than just dodge and burn tools. There are a total of seven adjustment effects to choose from, not to mention an Auto Mask option.
Adjustment brush
When you select the adjustment brush tool ( ) the tool options shown in Figure 3.67 will appear in the panel section on the right with the New button selected (you can also use the key to toggle between the Adjustment Brush panel and the main Camera Raw panel controls). Below this are the sliders you use to configure the adjustment brush settings before you apply a new set of brush strokes.
Figure 3.67 The Adjustment Brush options.
Initial Adjustment Brush options
To apply a brush adjustment, click on the New brush button at the top of the panel and then select the effect options you wish to apply by using either the plus or minus buttons or the sliders. For example, clicking on the Exposure plus button increases the exposure setting to +0.50 and clicking on the negative button sets it to −0.50 (these are your basic dodge and burn settings). The effect buttons therefore make it fairly