Touch-Ups (Healing Brush)

SPOT HEALING  Brush- Small Blemishes, Dust and Scratches

• • • • Click on the Spot Healing Brush.  

      • The size of the brush should be slightly larger than the area needing repair. 

      • Drag the Hardness slider all the way to the left until it is set to 0%.

      • Click the spots and watch them disappear.

HEALING Brush - Large Blemishes with More Control

• • • • Click on the Healing Brush.

      • The size of the brush should be slightly larger than the area needing repair. 

      • Drag the Hardness slider all the way to the left until it is set to 0%.

      • Hold down the ALT key and click on an unblemished part of the skin with texture similar to the area needing repair, and then release the ALT key.

      • Place the mouse pointer over the blemish and click (or drag) to fix.

CLONE STAMP TOOL - Duplicate part of an image

• • • • Click on the Clone Stamp Tool.

      • The size of the brush should be slightly larger than the area you with to clone. 

      • Drag the Hardness slider all the way to the left until it is set to 0%.

      • Hold down the ALT key and click on an area of the image you want to clone and then release the ALT key.

      • Click and drag to copy in the new location.

HEALING BRUSH VS CLONE STAMP

• The Clone Stamp tool makes a pixel for pixel copy while the Healing Brush matches the texture, lighting, transparency and shading of the sampled pixels to the area being healed.