So you can now work on an image using an empty layer. This has made it quite powerful indeed. What makes the Patch tool unique is that each time you use, it will give a slightly different result even on the same selection.
It is great for retouching larger areas of your image, very fast and quite seamlessly. Or if you are in Destination Mode, this can also duplicate, or clone an object. I will illustrate this further on in the article.
By clicking on the Spot Healing brush in the tools panel. A fly out menu appears, the Patch tool is the third one down. Image showing definite areas that needs to be removed. The Patch Tool in normal mode removed some unwanted things cigarette butts in this image very easily and quickly. You may have to make a few attempts. Just make sure you are working on a duplicate background layer, or using a separate empty layer — not your original background layer.
You can use any selection tool and then select the Patch tool. Before I show you how to use the Patch Tool with Content-Aware, I want to demonstrate how the it can be used to clone an isolated area of your image.
In the following example, I want to duplicate the bird and add another one. Similar to the steps above:. Click on the Destination radio button to duplicate or clone a specific area.
Using the Patch tool to clone or duplicate an area of an image in Destination Mode. Showing or hiding layers, groups, or styles lets you isolate or view only certain portions of your image for easy editing. Click the eye icon next to a layer, group, or layer effect to hide its content in the document window. Click in the column again to redisplay the content.
To view the eye icon for styles and effects, click the Reveal Effects In panel icon. Alt-click Windows or Option-click Mac OS an eye icon to display only the contents of that layer or group. Photoshop remembers the visibility states of all layers before hiding them.
You can now copy and paste layers in Photoshop—inside a document and between documents. Depending on your color management settings and the color profile associated with the file or imported data , Photoshop may prompt you for directions to handle color information in the imported data. Any edit you make to a copy-pasted Smart Object layer does not update the original Smart Object layer and vice versa.
This is a known limitation. As a workaround, create Linked Smart Objects. Pasting creates a duplicate layer, including all bitmap and vector masks, and layer effects. Paste In Place. For example, a layer containing content from the bottom-right corner of a large document pastes into the new document in the bottom-right corner. In all cases, Photoshop tries to keep at least some piece of the pasted layers visible in the destination document, so that you can reposition it as desired.
If you copy a layer and then create a new document, you can make use of the Clipboard option in the New Document dialog. You can then easily paste your copied layers into the new document. Cut is grayed out when you have a layer or layers selected. Delete layers directly in the Layers panel. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. Create and manage layers and groups Search.
Make it. Create layers and groups. Create a new layer or group. Do one of the following:. Set layer options, and click OK:. Since Photoshop's filters are beyond the scope of this tutorial, I'll go through these steps fairly quickly. First, I'll apply the Motion Blur filter by going up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choosing Blur , and then choosing Motion Blur :. This opens the Motion Blur dialog box. Then, because I'm working on a large, high resolution image, I'll increase the Distance value to around pixels.
If you're using a smaller image, you may want to use a smaller value:. To soften the effect a bit more, I'll apply Photoshop's Gaussian Blur filter by going back up to the Filter menu, back to Blur , and this time choosing Gaussian Blur :. I'll set the Radius value at the bottom of the Gaussian Blur dialog box to around 20 pixels just to soften any harsh diagonal lines.
Again, if you're using a smaller image, a smaller value may work best:. It may look like I've blurred the entire image, but if we look in the Layers panel, we see that's not the case. Since the Background copy layer was the active layer when I applied the blur filters, only the Background copy layer was affected.
We can see the blurred image in the Background copy layer's preview thumbnail. The original image on the layer below it was not affected.
Its preview thumbnail is still showing the original, untouched image:. If I want to see the original photo again in the document, I can simply turn the blurred layer off by clicking its layer visibility icon to the left of the preview thumbnail.
When the little eyeball is visible, it means the layer is visible in the document. Clicking the icon will hide the eyeball and hide the layer:. With the blurred layer hidden, the original photo reappears in the document. The blurred layer is still there; we just can't see it at the moment:. To turn the blurred layer back on, I just need to click on the empty box where the eyeball used to be:. This turns the blurred layer back on the document, once again hiding the original photo from view:.
As we've seen, Photoshop automatically names layers for us as we add them, but the names it gives them, like "Layer 1" and "Background copy", are pretty generic and not very helpful. When we only have a couple of layers in a document, the names may not seem very important, but when we find ourselves working with 10, 20 or even or more layers, it's much easier to keep them organized if they have meaningful names.
Thankfully, Photoshop makes it easy to rename a layer. Simply double-click directly on a layer's name in the Layers panel to highlight it:. Then, type in a new name. I'll change the name of my Background copy layer to "Blur". Layer masks are essential for much of our Photoshop work.
We won't get into the details of them here, but to add a layer mask on a layer, first make sure the layer you want to add it to is selected. Then click the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel the rectangle with the circle in the middle :.
A layer mask thumbnail will appear to the right of the layer's preview thumbnail, letting you know that the mask has been added. Notice that the thumbnail is filled with white. On a layer mask, white represents the areas of the layer that remain visible in the document, while black represents areas that will be hidden.
By default, Photoshop fills new layer masks entirely with white. Notice also that the layer mask thumbnail shows a white border around it. This tells us that the mask, not the actual layer itself, is currently selected and active:. With the layer mask added, we can paint on it with a brush to reveal part of the original image below the Blur layer. To hide parts of the Blur layer, I'll need to paint on the layer mask with black.
Photoshop uses the current Foreground color as the brush color, so before I start painting, I'll make sure my Foreground color is set to black. We can see the current Foreground and Background colors in the color swatches near the bottom of the Tools panel.
By default, whenever we have a layer mask selected, Photoshop sets the Foreground color to white and the Background color to black. To swap them and set the Foreground color to black, all we need to do is press the letter X on the keyboard:. With my Foreground color set to black, I'll paint on the layer mask to hide those parts of the Blur layer and reveal the original image on the Background layer below it.
You can adjust the size of your brush from the keyboard. Press the left bracket key [ repeatedly to make the brush smaller or the right bracket key ] to make it larger. To make the brush edges softer , press and hold your Shift key and press the left bracket key [ repeatedly.
To make the edges harder , hold Shift and press the right bracket key ] :. If we look again at the layer mask thumbnail, we see that it's no longer filled with solid white.
Some areas are still filled with white, but we can also see the areas where we've painted with black. Again, white on a mask represents the areas of the layer that remain visible in the document, while black areas are hidden from view:. If everything we just did there was brand new to you, don't worry.
Layer masks are a whole other topic, and I explain them in much more detail in our Understanding Layer Masks in Photoshop tutorial. It's the icon that looks like a circle split diagonally between black and white:. Clicking on it opens up a list of fill and adjustment layers we can choose from.
I'll quickly colorize my image by selecting the Colorize option, then I'll set the Hue value to for a blue color and I'll increase the Saturation value to Again, don't worry if anything I'm doing here is beyond your current skill level. I'm going through some things quickly just so we can get an overall picture of how much we can do in the Layers panel:.
Adjustment layers are another topic that falls outside the scope of this tutorial, but the reason why I went ahead and added one anyway was so we can see that any adjustment layers we add to a document appear in the Layers panel just as normal layers do. The Layers panel is also where we can change a layer's blend mode , which changes how the layer blends in with the layer s below it. The Blend Mode option is found in the upper left of the Layers panel directly below the name tab. It doesn't actually say "Blend Mode" anywhere, but it's the box that says "Normal" in it by default.
To select a different blend mode, click on the word "Normal" or whatever other blend mode happens to be selected at the time , then choose a different blend mode from the list that appears. I'll select the Color blend mode from the list:. The brightness values the lights, darks and all the shades in between are not affected.
We can see that my image now appears a bit brighter than it did a moment ago:. We can control a layer's level of transparency from the Layers panel using the Opacity option directly across from the Blend Mode option. Directly below the Opacity option is the Fill option. Like Opacity, Fill also controls a layer's level of transparency. In most cases, these two options Opacity and Fill behave exactly the same way, but there is one important difference between them that has to do with layer styles.
Again, we won't get into the details here, but to learn the difference between Opacity and Fill, check out our Layer Opacity vs Fill tutorial. Earlier, we learned that one of the ways we can keep our layers better organized in the Layers panel is by renaming them to something more meaningful. Another way is to group related layers together into a layer group. We can create a new layer group by clicking the New Group icon at the bottom of the Layers panel.
It's the icon that looks like a folder which is essentially what a layer group is. However, I'm not going to actually click on it because there's a better way to create a layer group:. The problem it's more of an inconvenience, really with clicking the New Group icon is that it creates a new but empty group, requiring us to manually drag layers into the group ourselves.
It's not a big deal, but there's a better way. I want to place my Blur layer and my adjustment layer into a new group, so the first thing I'll do is select both of them at once.
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