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The Photoshop Patch Tool is a tool that I just discovered last week taking one of Nik's online courses and the instructor shared this with us all.

The Clone Tool is what most of us use a lot in Photoshop, and in most cases it works well, but if you have a couple of areas or more to clone it can take up a bit of time to same the image right?

Now the Patch Tool



To access the patch tool, go to your healing ...

One major obstacle that can sneak up on you very fast is how you store your images on your hard drive on your PC.

First of all before I begin, I must STRESS that it is important for you to backup those images onto another external drive, if you have a hard drive failure your images will be lost forever. And my backups are copied onto 2 other devices.

• None boot drive on PC.
• Drobo Device.
• Home Server.
• Once the images have been placed into proper folders, Mirror Folder will

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I had a member on Forum that purchased Capture NX, but the problem is that he still has all the Actions and Plug-Ins that he wants to still use in Photoshop.
I'm also was in the same position with this problem really had a hard time at first even using Capture NX, but a buddy of mine had me over and should me how to take advantage of some of the features in the software

Let me started out with my basic work flow first.

Photo Mechanic to view and remove the images ...

LightZone is software that I had purchased a few years ago, and use it from time to time with difficult images that I want to save. LightZone can be used as a Stand Alone, or you can run this within Lightroom and I found that using this software through Lightroom worked better for me.

So what is LightZone here are the key features

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Key Features of LightZone:

• Relight tool
• Colorized Black and White
• Hue/saturation
• Noise reduction
• Modify live RAW

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Blending Tip

I found this tip and tried it out and it works pretty good.

I take the color image and make a duplicate layer so now have two layers of the same image.
I then add a third layer and convert it to B&W. You can use whatever conversion method you want, but the trick is to get a good amount of tonal range in the conversion.
Once I'm happy with the B&W layer, I take it and move it one step down, so it's sandwiched by the two color layers. Your

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