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Trevor.Dennis
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February 7, 2025
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Using Free Transform Together With the Patch Tool

  • February 7, 2025
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Many years ago (pre-Creative Cloud) Martin Evening demonstrated using the Patch Tool together with Free Transform.  As I remember it he duplicated a boat, but made the new boat smaller appearing to be further away.  I have forgotten how to do that now.  The trick is to make the selection and move it without it pasting the patch and blending it with the background.

 

I have Photoshop for Photographers CS6 on my bookshelf, but I am remembering it from a video.  I will try and find it in the book, but it's a very long time since my eyesight was up to looking at books. Thank goodness for audiobooks — I get through several of them in an average week!

 

Anyone remember that, or knows how it is done?

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@Trevor.Dennis I just did this with my students last week, but it was the Content-Aware Tool, and you would have the Transform on Drop Turned On. You can change the mode to Extend (which is really Copy)...see content-aware.mp4

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February 7, 2025

@Trevor.Dennis I just did this with my students last week, but it was the Content-Aware Tool, and you would have the Transform on Drop Turned On. You can change the mode to Extend (which is really Copy)...see content-aware.mp4

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    Trevor.Dennis
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    February 8, 2025

    Yes, that does seem to do the same thing, but Martin was definitely using the Patch Tool, and this about 15 years ago.

    He did it with a fishing boat placinging the center handle on the horizon, and Alt dragging a corner handle to maintain the perspective.  This was too easy, and I positioned it much too high, and it still blended OK.

    This was a much more difficult situation.  You can see how much blue there was behind the top of the source tree.  I moved the color slider to max to get this.  If I tried to maked the target tree any smaller, it could make a decent blend.

     

    Not the same, but acheives the same result, and is something I didn't know, so thanks @creative explorer I will be using this going forward.

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