Option-click does not copy pixels wile retouching a photo

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Option-click does not copy pixels wile retouching a photo

When using the option-click feature to copy pixels while retouching a photo, it still seems to blend the copied pixels with the target area. When there is a really bad blemish in the target area a straight replacement would be more useful (you could always blend in a second step if required). Not sure if this is a bug or a feature. I think it worked a lot better in Aperture. Anyone found a workaround? I guess for the time being I can always edit in Aperture, export the edited photo, then re-import into Photos, but that's inconvenient and won't work once Aperture becomes unsupported.

iMac (17-inch Late 2006), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Jun 7, 2015 10:13 AM

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léonie

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Jun 7, 2015 12:08 PM in response to Keith Robson

When using the option-click feature to copy pixels while retouching a photo, it still seems to blend the copied pixels with the target area.

Yes, that is what it is doing. In Aperture we can set "Softness" and "Opacity" when using the clone brush for retouching, but Photos seems to uses default values for "Softness" and "Opacity".

Also, it clones only the structure of the selected texture, but not the color. When I try to clone a green lawn onto a brown gravel pathway, the cloned patch will have the grass texture, but still look brown and not green. The option-click retouch tool will try to make the color blend in with the neighbourhood.

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