Another Blanket Wrinkle

[Natalie C]

What method would you suggest for smoothing out the wrinkle in the blanket in front of baby's  shoulder?

[Damien Symonds]

Hmmm ... that will depend on the texture, I guess.  May I see a 100% crop?

[Natalie C]

Sure.

[Damien Symonds]

Hmmm ... when you saved the jpeg file for upload just now, what Quality Level did you choose?  It looks quite degraded.

[Natalie C]

5. Too low I guess.  I'll give you a better one...

[Natalie C]

[Damien Symonds]

Gosh yes, 5 is always too low.

[Damien Symonds]

I urge you to read Module 11 of the class again, by the way.

Regarding the wrinkle, plain old Patch Tool might work fine, I reckon.

[Natalie C]

Ok, I will read it now.

I don't think I have ever used the patch tool, I will give it a whirl.

 

Thank you.

[Damien Symonds]

I don't have a video about it, sorry, but you'll find some on YouTube, I imagine.

It's very simple, just circle the area (with a little bit of buffer around it) then drag the area onto another area of similar texture.

[Natalie C]

Better?  On to patch tool, I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[Damien Symonds]

1 minute ago, Natalie C said:

Better?

No.

[Natalie C]

ha, that's because I made a dumb mistake and just copied my pixel edit layer from the old file and put it right above my nice new (hopefully less noisy) edit... 

ok, try now.  

[Damien Symonds]

Great.

[Natalie C]

I think I'm on the right track with the patch tool, I need to keep working on the rest of the backdrop.  Do you have any articles about patch tool best practices or when you recommend using it over other methods?  Thanks for all of your help.

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

If you search my articles for "patch tool" you'll find a few references to it.