![]() The brush can be “squeezed” into an oval shape visually by adjusting the top or bottom circle adjusters or by typing a percentage number into the Roundness text field. Next down in the Brush options is an area that allows the user to alter the roundness and angle of the brush. The default setting of 25% Spacing is perfect for most Healing Brush work. ![]() Raising the Spacing widens the space between stamped icons, ultimately separating the icons from each other completely. Photoshop brushes work by stamping a shape icon repeatedly, overlapping them in order to produce a perceived continual stroke. Spacing is the control that makes the brush appear to apply a smooth stroke. ![]() I find that the Healing Brush borders on being a bit too soft for most jobs so I keep the hardness up as high as possible. However the Hardness slider can be lowered to produce a softer edge transition when a more diffused edge is desired. It’s a good default setting for work that is done within areas of consistent background texture, like spots on backgrounds or skin.īONUS: Click Here to download this post on Photoshop’s Healing Brush as a free PDF! This means that the size of the brush will vary depending on how hard the user presses down on the tablet and the blending will occur within the brush icon ending abruptly at the edge of the icon. The default settings provide a round brush, size variable with pressure at 100% Hardness. Unlike the Clone Stamp that allows the user to choose from the default brush set, the Healing Brush uses it’s own brush technology. The first option to consider is Brush Size. Instead it replaced the boxes with the seashell texture with slight variations in value from the original source caused because the values of some of the colored boxes are darker than most of the values in the seashell texture. In the last example, the brush was larger than the colored boxes, so Photoshop didn’t use any of the colors. The smaller brush left more surrounding color so more was used in the blend. The amount of color used was based upon how much color was left in the surroundings. Depending on the size of the brush used, the colors of the boxes were averaged and merged with the seashell texture in order to blend them all together using the seashells as the desired texture. In this case the source was the seashells in the background. If the source area contains a texture, the Healing Brush will work with that texture plus average the colors and values of the surrounding areas: When the brush size was larger than the original boxes, the boxes were “removed”, replaced with the white background. You can see that Photoshop has tried to average the surrounding colors and values into the center of the area that was being retouched. The black circles represent the size of the brush that was used. The source was set (Option / Alt tap) to copy the smooth, white background and transfer it into the center of the colored boxes. Here’s an example of the Healing Brush in action: The tool is designed to retouch unwanted dust spots, blemishes, scratches, stray hairs and other small image imperfections, like the Clone Stamp Tool but it is much easier, especially for new users, to work with. More from our Popular Tools in Photoshop series:
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