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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 brush menu in Photoshop and click on it and you should see the patch tool and select that. See the image above.
So how is this different from the Clone Tool? Well the patch tool allows you to select the areas in the image that needs fixing weather small or large areas just by moving your mouse and go around the selected area in your image.

A good example is removing unwanted stuff in a background all you need is an area to the left or right that is good and now select the area to be changed, with the patch tool once you have selected that area, move the selected area either left or right and watch how easy it will be fixed. Another example is you have a hot spot on the breast of a bird, but to the right is perfect, select the hot spot with the tool and now move the selection to the right and the hot spot is gone.

The last step is to clean up the images which have small flaws from the Patch Tool, it's not perfect but gets you close. Just go back to the healing brush again and touch up those areas in your image.

I have an image of an Egret that I have with a few hot spots on the bird and did the above process with the patch tool and I was very happy with the out come of this tool.

So check this tool out for yourself and see what I mean, it is one that I will be using when required.

Hope you enjoyed this little tip.