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About retouching and reshaping images

The retouching tools are used to make certain edits (like removing objects, brightening, or saturating) to specific parts of an image. Each of these tools is brush-based, meaning you brush or paint over the areas you’d like to retouch. For example, you can easily remove unwanted objects, seamlessly clone parts of your photos, lighten or darken, saturate, desaturate, sharpen, soften, and smudge certain areas — all by simply painting over them. The reshaping tools are also brush-based and they are used to manipulate the shape of areas in an image by warping, bumping, pinching, and twirling.

Retouching Tools

Repair Remove small imperfections or entire objects from images.
Clone Copy parts of an image from one area to another.
Lighten Brighten a specific area of an image.
Darken Darken a specific area of an image.
Saturate Make the colors in a specific area of an image more vibrant.
Desaturate Make the colors in a specific area of an image less vibrant.
Sharpen Make a specific area of an image sharper.
Soften Make a specific area of an image softer.
Smudge Naturally smudge a specific area of an image.

Reshaping Tools

Warp Push and pull a specific area of an image in any direction.
Bump Bump a specific area of an image.
Pinch Pinch a specific area of an image
Twirl Twirl a specific area of an image.

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