How To Use The Healing Brush Tool In Photoshop
https://www.shutterbuggs.com/ - Here is a before and after photograph that I restored quite some time ago and if you notice on the left hand side, we have the original scan and on the right hand side we have the final image that I’ve restored. There’s quite a bit of difference between the two. You’ll noticed just in the left hand bottom corner of the before shot, you’ll see there’re quite a few imperfections and spots and tainted marks on the outside edges of this photo and also on the photo itself. Now one of the specific tools in Photoshop that we can actually use to remove these types of spots or blemishes is the healing brush.
Essentially the healing brush will let you correct imperfections in your photographs, causing them to simply to disappear into the surrounding image. Similar to other cloning tools, you can use the healing brush tool to paint over your image with samples of pixels, pre-determined by you. And as a result, the repaired pixels or areas in your photographs blend seamlessly into the rest of your image. Now there is another version of the healing brush as I’m about to show you. So if you just go across to the tool menu on the left hand side of your working space, let me just go down from the top. You’ll notice it looks like a little band aid.
Now you can press ‘J’ on your keyboard to bring up this particular tool or you can click and actually hold down on it. And what’ll you see is there is also a spot healing brush tool as well as a healing brush tool. Now whilst they’re very similar obviously, the spot healing brush tool is more specific to concentrating and dealing with spots on your photographs. But first let’s just concentrate on actually utilizing the healing brush tool. So the first thing essentially you need to do is select the healing brush tool, the second thing you’ll notice is see up at the top of your working space with the options bar that you have a series of different options that you can actually adjust.
The first being is obviously the brush size and we’ve been through this in previous videos where you can adjust the brush size, the hardness of the brush and the spacing etc, etc. Also you can also adjust if you’re using a Wacom tablet or a stylus tablet with a pen. You’ve also got the pressure sensitive settings here and the angle in which your pen will actually perform at. So we’ll move on from that. Now what you’ll notice here is that we have blending modes for the healing brush tool.
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