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Repairing Your Images
You use the Repair brush of the Retouch adjustment when the area surrounding the blemish has
elements of high contrast, such as an edge, or when you need to copy texture from the source
area and maintain the color and shading in the destination area.
Before Repair adjustment After Repair adjustment
To retouch an image using the Repair brush
1 Select a photo.
2 To display the photo at full size, click the Zoom Viewer button in the tool strip or the Full Screen
view toolbar (or press Z).
Setting the photo to appear at full size (100 percent) prevents image scaling from
obscuring details.
3 Choose Retouch from the Quick Brush pop-up menu (with a brush icon) in the tool strip or the
Full Screen view toolbar.
The pointer changes to a brush, and the Retouch HUD appears.
4 In the Retouch HUD, do the following:
a Click the Repair button.
b Set the radius of the brush by dragging the Radius slider, entering a value in the Radius value
slider, or using the scroll gesture.
Note: You cannot use the scroll gesture when the pointer is placed over the Retouch HUD.
c Set the softness of the brush by dragging the Softness slider or entering a value in the
Softness value slider.
d Set the opacity of the brush by dragging the Opacity slider or entering a value in the Opacity
value slider.
5 If you want the Retouch adjustment to preserve edge details in the image, select the “Detect
edges” checkbox.