To Use The Spot Healing Brush Tool; The Patch Tool - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

If you need to retouch a large area or need more control over the source sampling, you can use the Healing Brush
instead of the Spot Healing Brush.

To use the Spot Healing Brush tool

The Spot Healing Brush quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections in your photos. You can either click once
on a blemish, or click and drag to smooth away imperfections in an area.
Select the Spot Healing Brush tool
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tool, or Red Eye tool to show the hidden tools and make your selection.
Choose a brush size in the options bar. A brush that is slightly larger than the area you want to fix works best so
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that you can cover the entire area with one click.
3 (Optional) Choose a blending mode from the Mode menu in the options bar. Choose Replace to preserve noise,
film grain, and texture at the edges of the brush stroke.
Choose a Type option in the options bar:
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Uses the pixels around the edge of the selection to find an image area to use as a patch for the
Proximity Match
selected area. If this option doesn't provide a satisfactory fix, undo the fix and try the Create Texture option.
Uses all the pixels in the selection to create a texture with which to fix the area. If the texture doesn't
Create Texture
work, try dragging through the area a second time.
Select Use All Layers in the options bar to sample data from all visible layers. Deselect Use All Layers to sample
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only from the active layer.
6 Click the area you want to fix, or click and drag over a larger area.
See also
"List of blending modes" on page 487
"To create a brush and set painting options" on page 475
"Retouching tools gallery" on page 42

The Patch tool

The Patch tool lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern. Like the Healing Brush tool,
the Patch tool matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. You can also use
the Patch tool to clone isolated areas of an image.
When repairing with pixels from the image, select a small area to produce the best result.
from the toolbox. If necessary, click either the Healing Brush tool, Patch
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