The Photoshop Healing Brush Tool behaves very similarly to the Clone Stamp Tool when you sample and make a repair using an area of detail. The good news is that you can control this behaviour with a little-known feature of the tool. Also, be sure your Healing Brush is set to “Sampled” in the Context Sensitive toolbar and not “Patterned”.Įarlier when we looked at the Photoshop Healing Brush Tool, we found that making a repair too close to an area of detail caused the repair to smudge. When you click, you set the point for the sample. As you do this you will see the mouse pointer change to a small positioning cross. You set the point to sample in the image by holding down the Option key (or Alt key if using a PC) and moving the mouse pointer to the centre of the area. With the Spot Healing Brush Tool, you don’t have this control. Making the Repair with the Photoshop Healing BrushĪlthough it has other problems, the advantage of using the regular Photoshop Healing Brush Tool over the Spot Healing Brush Tool is that you can control the area sampled for the repair.
Instead, consider switching to the regular Photoshop Healing Brush. But if you want to make a print or need to use a larger version of the image, this isn’t going to work. By reducing the image to 25% of its current size, it’s doubtful anyone would notice the problem area. In this example, the image measures 4,500 pixels. If all you require is a small image for a website, this may be good enough. But look at the area in the red oval and you will see that the railings don’t line up. You can see a screenshot of this below.Īt first glance, this appears to be a good repair, especially as the area’s magnified at 200%. They now include additional settings you can use with the Spot Healing Brush Tool and which you’ll find in the Context Sensitive toolbar in the top left of the Photoshop interface. But other times the repair can be very poor and may even include a random object or two.įortunately, the more recent versions of Photoshop have improved on this basic behaviour. Where the repair is on a clear area with nothing near to it, Photoshop makes a good repair probably 80% of the time. Photoshop automatically blends the repaired into its surroundings. Photoshop then takes a sample from elsewhere in the image and uses this to make the repair. You size the brush, set the options and then paint over the area to repair. The Spot Healing Brush Tool is very easy to use.
If you’re using an older version of Photoshop, then you’re probably best to avoid the Spot Healing Brush Tool for anything other than spotting out dust. The question is, which do you use? Unfortunately, the answer to this depends on which version of Photoshop you’re using.
In this illustration, you can also see Photoshop has two Healing Brush tools, highlighted by the red box.
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