Adjusting Spot Patch Options


Adjusting Spot & Patch Options

Many of the tools in Aperture, including the Spot & Patch tool, offer basic options in their respective HUDs but make additional options available in the Adjustments Inspector after the adjustment has been applied. Let's use these additional options to fine-tune the Spot & Patch adjustment on the Jackson Hole 9 of 23 image.

1.

Click the Jackson Hole 9 of 23 image in the Browser or Viewer to make it the primary selection.

2.

Press Option-R to switch the Viewer to Primary Viewer mode.

3.

Position the cursor close to the sensor dust area and press the Z key to zoom in.

The Spot & Patch adjustment did not simulate the digital noise pattern on the image, so the shape of the correction is noticeable. But we can adjust the tool's parameters to blend the patch better.

4.

Click the Spot & Patch disclosure triangle in the Adjustments Inspector to reveal the Spot & Patch controls group.

5.

Drag the Radius slider to 40, or double-click in the numerical entry box, type 40, and then press Return.

This made the patch lighter, but it is still not quite blending in.

6.

Set Softness to 20%, Opacity to 90%, and Detail to 5.00.

These adjustments do a much better job of blending the patch into the sky. Increasing the softness feathers the edge of the selection; reducing the opacity adjusts the density of the pixels included in the patch area; and the much lower value for Detail reduces the amount of detail blended into the patch area.

7.

Press the Z key to zoom back out. The sensor dust is gone, and the patch isn't noticeable.

Removing sensor dust is only one way to use the Spot & Patch tool. You can also use it to clone pixels from one area of an image to another. The good news is your images are nice and clean and ready to ship out. The great news is that we never touched the original master image.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture
ISBN: 0321422767
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 185

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