Photo Retouching Hint

When retouching a brick building in Photoshop, it is very easy [read: possible] to remove something in front of the building (like a big ugly power pole) by following this simple trick.

Copy a whole "sheet" of bricks--being very careful to match patterns in the brick--then use the distort feature to change the distortion of all the bricks at once rather than clone bricks one at a time. First of all, cloning one at a time will be impossible to match perspectives. NOT ONE BRICK is the same due to perspective. It is much easier to plug in a patch of bricks where you can change the perspective on all at the same time.

Be sure to complete the illusion by matching sharpness and lightness.

--KH