The Spot Healing Brush tool quickly removes
blemishes and other imperfections in your photos. The Spot Healing
Brush works similarly to the Healing Brush: it paints with sampled
pixels from an image or pattern and matches the texture, lighting,
transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed.
Unlike the Healing Brush, the Spot Healing Brush doesn’t require
you to specify a sample spot. The Spot Healing Brush automatically
samples from around the retouched area.
Using the Spot Healing Brush to remove a blemish
If you need to retouch a large area or need more
control over the source sampling, you can use the Healing Brush
instead of the Spot Healing Brush.
Select the Spot Healing Brush tool from
the toolbox. If necessary, click either the Healing Brush tool,
Patch tool, or Red Eye tool to show the hidden tools and make your
selection.
Choose a brush size in the options bar. A brush that
is slightly larger than the area you want to fix works best so that
you can cover the entire area with one click.
(Optional) Choose a blending mode from the Mode menu
in the options bar. Choose Replace to preserve noise, film grain,
and texture at the edges of the brush stroke when using a soft‑edge
brush.
Choose a Type option in the options bar:
Proximity Match
Uses the pixels around the edge of the selection to find
an image area to use as a patch for the selected area. If this option
doesn’t provide a satisfactory fix, undo the fix and try the Create
Texture option.
Create Texture
Uses all the pixels in the selection to create a texture
with which to fix the area. If the texture doesn’t work, try dragging
through the area a second time.
Select Use All Layers in the options bar to sample data
from all visible layers. Deselect Use All Layers to sample only
from the active layer.
Click the area you want to fix, or click and drag to
smooth over imperfections in a larger area.
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Comments
Images Charie
said on
Sep 6, 2008
at
1:02 AM :
When setting the healing brush tool (& similarly the spot healing brush tool), what is the effect of specifying (in the drop-down menu) "spacing", "angle" & "roundness"?
If you need to retouch a large area or need more
control over the source sampling, you can use the Healing Brush
instead of the Spot Healing Brush.
from
the toolbox. If necessary, click either the Healing Brush tool,
Patch tool, or Red Eye tool to show the hidden tools and make your
selection.
Comments
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