PhotoCraft retouching: Clone Stamp, Healing and Remove tools

Set up a reversible practice repair

The official product page describes retouching tools. Check which tools and settings are present in your build, and choose a small blemish or background distraction in an image you may edit.

Keep the original image and work on a duplicate. If your selected tool supports a separate retouch layer and sampling from other layers, use those documented options; otherwise preserve an unchanged copy before altering pixels. Do not assume every tool supports the same sampling mode.

Choose by the surrounding content

Cloning copies texture from a chosen source; healing aims to blend a repair with surrounding content. A removal tool can offer another repair approach, but its result still needs inspection. Try the tool’s current documented workflow on a small area.

Choose source texture with similar lighting and direction. Watch for repeated patterns, smeared detail and changes at object boundaries. A large repair crossing a hard edge is a more difficult task than a small mark on a plain background.

Where available, change brush size and opacity deliberately. Test one setting at a time instead of treating a numerical preset as correct for every photo.

Check the repair before extending it

1. Compare the repaired area with the untouched copy at a close view.
2. Inspect the image at delivery size to see whether the repair is conspicuous.
3. Check edges and nearby texture, not just the centre of the replaced area.
4. Undo a poor result and try a smaller region or a different source.
5. Save a new working file, then inspect a separate export.

For a masked repair, use the mask refinement checks. Record reproducible tool failures with a minimal image sample and version instead of assuming every artifact is a hardware problem.

Official sources: PhotoCraft product page (opens a new tab) · PhotoCraft README (opens a new tab) · Issue tracker (opens a new tab).