The Healing Brush is new with PS 7.
It is similar to the clone stamp tool, but is much easier when fixing minorblemishes.
The Healing Brush is a powerful tool when used to restore and retouch photos
because it blends pixels seamlessly into the rest of the image. How does this
work? It works similar to the clone tool, but instead of just copying the shading,
texture and lighting of the sampled pixels, it actually blends the sampled area with
the area you are correcting. This results in a more natural effect.
The Healing Brush is a simple tool to learn, so grab some photos and get ready to
deduct ages and blemishes off your favorite photos.
Helpful Hints to Begin:
1) Keep a copy of the original file (Either do a “save as” before you start or copy the
layer)
2) Select the Healing Brush and adjust the brush size to suit the needs of the area
you are going to be working on. It is recommended not to use a very large brush so
you can achieve a more natural effect.
3) Make sure you have selected the “Sampled” from the Source option on your
toolbar after you select the Healing Brush
4) Unlike the Clone tool, it is better to use a hard edge brush with the Healing Brush tool.Once you have all the correct options selected for the Healing Brush and haveselected your preferred brush size, you must pick a point on your photo to sample.This is done by positioning the pointer over a part of the image which is similar tothe area you would like to correct.Click Alt + left click(PC), or Option + left click (Mac) to sample.Move your pointer over the area you wish to heal and left click on your mouse button.(You can check the Aligned option in the Healing Brush status bar to keep the current samling point. If deselected the sampled pixels are applied from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting). If you didn’t achieve the result you had hoped for, simply go back and select a new sampling area and click and heal the area again. You can do this until all theblemishes are gone and a realistic skintone effect has been achieved.
* Also, note that when working on a copy of the original layer, you can adjust theopacity of the layer to give a more natural blending effect of the image you just healed.Original picture. This is a screen capture of the original photo that was scanned in.Final imageThis is how the final image turned out after using the healing tool to correct all minor blemishes. Also, I used curves to slightly color correct the image. To brighten up the models eyes I used a combination of the de-saturate tool and burn tool.
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