Photoshop: Tutorial - Spot Healing Brush
Using the Spot Healing Brush tool is a great way to quickly get rid of zits, blemishes and other imperfections from photos. It’s a new feature in Photoshop CS2 and it works by painting with sampled pixels from an image or pattern and matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. The Spot Healing Brush doesn’t require you to specify a sample spot, you simply click where you want to remove a spot and it automatically samples from around the retouched area. It is absolutely incredible.
In this example I’m using the Spot Healing Brush to remove some orange spots from a butterfly’s wing.
- In the toolbox, select the Spot Healing Brush tool (J).
- On the tool options bar, click the Brush pop-up menu and make the brush larger, about 32 pixels and set the hardness to 25%.
- Using the Spot Healing Brush, click once over the orange spot at the top of the butterfly’s wing. When you press down with the mouse, the shape of the brush will appear black or dark grey
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Once you release the mouse button, the area will be “healed” and the spot will disappear.
Here I’ve used the Spot Healing Brush to remove all four orange spots on the butterfly.
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