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as to which mode to use, and the best advice we can offer is that if the surrounding area
is fairly similar in detail, then begin by trying Repair mode. If you're removing a dust spot
from a highly detailed area of an image where the nearby detail is of something else,
then you may be better off with Clone mode and work at a very high magnification and
with a tiny brush.
4. Choose the Radius of the brush. Normally, you want a brush that's fairly small because
you can click and drag the brush to cover an area. You don't need to use a huge brush
and cover large spots in a single click.
5. Set the Softness of the brush. The softer the brush, the more gradually the effect is
feathered in, whereas the less soft, or harder the brush, the more discrete the edges of
the clone or repair. In highly detailed areas, you may need a harder brush while when
retouching areas of low detail such as sky or water or other backgrounds, a very soft
brush may be better.
6. Set the Opacity of the brush. To cover an area completely, set the opacity to 100 per-
cent, but if you need to blend a retouched area to help it look more natural and to hide
any obvious cloning and repetition of patterns, you can retouch using a series of repairs
and/or clones at partial opacities.
7. When using Repair mode you have the option to have Aperture automatically
choose the source. We often begin by choosing this option, but if the results are unex-
pected and we discover that Aperture is using a source that doesn't work the way we
have in mind, we leave that option unselected. In that case, as well as when using the
Clone mode, hold down the Option key and click on the source pixels to load the brush
with pixels.
8. In Repair mode there is also the option to have Aperture automatically Detect
Edges . We find this option extremely helpful.
When you've set all the parameters for the Retouch tool, click and drag to cover the area. The
direction that you drag the brush when using the Repair mode can make a difference in how well
it works. If you aren't pleased with the initial results, try increasing or decreasing the radius slightly
and/or dragging in a different direction. Often that will fix the problem.
After you use the Retouch tool, a new brick appears in the Adjustments Inspector. You can delete
your retouches sequentially by clicking the Delete button in the brick, but you can't skip over sev-
eral retouches and delete just one that was several steps back.
 
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