iPhoto Retouch - Grabbing pixels not working

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iPhoto Retouch - Grabbing pixels not working

Hi all,

Apple says one can grab pixels from a different part of a picture in the Retouch tool in iPhoto.

It does not seem to be working with me. When I press the "option key" with the "Retouch" function on it switches the direction of the "Rotate" function. If I then point the mouse to the desired part of a picture and try to capture the color texture, absolutely nothing happens.

I anticipate thanks if you can provide guidance.

Best, Tatsch

iPhoto '11

Posted on Jan 20, 2014 2:56 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Jan 20, 2014 3:57 AM in response to Tatsch

It's a little odd but it does work.

Yes, the rotate indicator will contiue to rotate, but that's no matter.

Click on Retouch

Option- Click on the Refernence point of the Photo

Then lick and drag on the area you want to retouh.

But be aware it's not a clone tool, it doesn't copy the pixels from the reference point, but rather tries to aggregate them against the target point.

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Answer 2

Old Toad

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Jan 20, 2014 11:51 AM in response to Tatsch

Option clicking on an area lets the Retouch toll apply the texture of that area to areas it's applied to elsewhere It's loosly akin to the Clone tool in other 3rd party editing apps but doesn't copy the reference pixels only its underlying texture.

OT

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