Adobe Photoshop

  Alteration Tools

Healing Brush

Corrects small blemishes in scanned photos. Select the tool,  hold down the ALT key and left-click on the base color you  nerd to heal. Then left-click over the blemish. 

Brush Draws

Brush strokes of different thicknesses and colors. Select the tool. Then click on the selected area, drag to draw lines. Use the options bar to change the brush, mode opacity and flow.

Clone Stamp

Takes a sample of an image and applies over another image, or a part of the same image. select the tool. Hold down the ALT key and left-click on a certain point of the document where you want to start your copy point. Then, put your mouse over whatever part of the new document you want to the picture to go to. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse across the page to copy the picture.

 Art History Brush

Paints over an image using the source data from a specified history state or snapshot. select the tool, specify the brush, blending mode, opacity, style, area and tolerance.   

Eraser

Removes part of an existing path of stroke. You can use the erase tool on paths. Text can only be erased when rasterized. select the tool, click on the part of the image you wish to erase. Drag to erase pixels. 

Paint Bucket   

Applies a color fill to a selected part of the image or to an entire layer. Select a layer you wish to apply the paint bucket to, click the tool button, click on the starting point and click 

the area you wish to fill.  

Blur

Blurs the sharp edges of an image. Select an area where you wish to apply the tool. click the tool button and choose the brush, mode, and strenght. Drag the brush along the edges.