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Healing Brush Tool

* corrects slight imperfections in an image by blending them with the pixels in the surrounding image 
* works in the same manner as the Clone Stamp Tool 
* it also matches the texture, shading, and lighting of the sampled pixels to the source pixels

__Spot Healing Brush__

removes blemishes, marks and small objects from an image

Healing Brush

used to repair imperfections in an image by painting with a sample or pattern

Alt + Left click

How to select sample (keybind)

Left Mouse Button + Shit + Drag

How to make a straight line in changing or erasing something?

Tool Options of Healing Brush Tool

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* Healing Brush
* Clone Source
* Mode
* Source
* Aligned
* Sample 
* Diffusion
* Use Legacy
* Ignore Adjustment Layer

Healing Brush

consists of

* size
* hardness
* spacing
* angle
* roundness

Close Source

* Has five clone stamp 
* Source Coordinates
* Flip
* Width & Height
* Source Angle
* Reset
* Show Overly
* Opacity
* Blend Mode
* Invert
* Clipped
* Auto-Hide

Has five clone stamp

when using different clone stamps to sample a part of an image, the image you last sampled in a clone stamp will appear instead of the other images you last sampled in a different clone stamp 

Source Coordinates

After clicking a sample, its coordinates will appear

Flip

Flip the sampled image either horizontally or vertically but the sample source stays the same

Width & Height 

It shrinks the sampled image but the sample source stays the same (width and height are linked so if width decreases so then the height

Source Angle 

Rotates the sampled image into the angle desired but the sample source stays the same

Reset

Bring the values of all changed options to their default value 

Show Overlay

* Uncheck, can no longer see the sample source but it’s still there 
* Check, can see the sample source in the healing brush 

Opacity

Sampled image will be a little transparent but the sample source has not 

Blend Mode

* Normal 
* Darken 
* Lighten 
* Difference

Invert

Inverts the color of the previewed sample image

Clipped

* Uncheck, can see the entire image even outside the brush 
* Check, can only preview the sampled area within the circle 

Auto-Hide

* Uncheck, it doesn’t hide the preview outside the healing brush 
* Check, hides the preview outside the healing brush 

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Mode

the blending of the sample to the background

Consists of:

* Normal - make the texture blend with the background 
* Replace- The texture doesn’t adapt to the background, it just paints the exact copy 
* Multiply 
* Screen 
* Darken 
* Lighten 
* Color- it collects the hue and saturation information (color remains but lightens/darkens) 
* Luminosity - it collects the luminosity or brightness information (color of the sample is changed)

 

Source

* Sample 
* acts as the source of the painting 
* Pattern 
* another option will appear and you can choose frot hose pattern

Aligned

* Uncheck, the healing brush starts with the original sample each time you click and drag 
* Check, it remembers the initial clicking point and starts from where we left off

Sample

Consists of: 

* Current layer- it samples only the images from the currently selected layer 
* Current & Below- it samples the images from the selected layers and below it 
* All layers- it samples images from all layers 

Diffusion

* How well the sample is mixing or blending with the background 
* Low, less mixed 
* High, mixed all elements 
* Note: All the blend mode have the diffusion except replace

Use Legacy

* Here, diffusion will disappear 
* Has its inbuilt diffusion of medium strength Note: Legacy won’t work on replace blend mode

Ignore Adjustment Layer

* Off, sample the image with the adjustment 
* On, only sample the image without adjustment

Spot Healing Brush

* removes unwanted spots or small objects from your image by clicking on the problem area
* blends in replacement pixels from another part of your image

Steps in Using the Spot Healing Brush

* Step 1: Create a Blank Layer


* Step 2: Zoom In


* Step 3: Select Spot Healing Brush


* Step 4: Size the  Spot Healing Brush


* Step 5: Choose Brush Type
* Step 6: Check Sample All Layers Box
* Step 7: Remove Spot

Content Aware

* the newest addition to the line-up. 
* Photoshop looks at your image and figures out what content to use

Create Texture

* Photoshop generates a pattern from the pixels around the area you want to replace

Proximity Match 

* Photoshop looks at the pixels just outside of the Spot Healing Brush circle for replacement pixels

How to remove a line?

You can drag the tool to remove the line, like power lines, from your image.

Patch Tool

* is part of the healing brush set of tools. 
* are the go-to tools for retouching and repairing your images. 
* is primarily used to repair larger areas of an image, or get rid of any distractions or blemishes.

Replace unwanted content with Patch Tool

* Select the Patch Tool
* In the Tool Options Bar, choose Normal and select either Source or Destination
* Draw a selection border over the area you want to replace
* To patch the Source, drag your selection to an area that contains matching detail to cover the part of the image you want to remove. To patch the Destination, drag the selection to that part of your image where you want to copy the selected pixels.

Patch Tool Options Bar

* Selection Types:
* Normal
* This is the normal selection that you do with the patch tool.
* Add to Selection
* allows you to add more parts to your patch selection than we do using the patch tool
* Subtract from Selection
* allows you to remove some parts of the already selected parts which we want to patch.
* Intersect with Selection
* it takes the part of the selection that is common between two selections

Patch  Type

* This tool helps us to choose between the type of patch we want to make.
* There are two options: Normal and Content-Aware.

Normal Type

This is the default option, in this type the patch is done like the normal mode.

Features of the Normal Patch Option:

* Patch source from destination: 
* This option helps us to patch the source (selected part) with the destination.


* Patch destination from the source: 
* This option helps us to patch the destination part of the image with the copy of the source(or selected part of the image).
* Use transparency while blending patch: 
* This option when enabled uses transparency factor while blending the patched part. 
* Pattern
* The next option helps us to patch the part of the image with a specific pattern. 
* Diffusion: 


* This option tells how quickly the patched portion adapts to the surrounding pixels. More the value, the better the diffusion. By default, it is set to 5 and has range from 1-7.

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Content-Aware

In this option, Photoshop chooses the best fill for your patch and makes the blending much more smooth and realistic. It is recommended to use these options when the user cannot do good patching in Normal mode.

Properties of Content Aware Patch Option

Structure

Color

Structure

It has a range of values from 1-7. This value tells the amount to which the patch should be blended with the nearby pixels of the image.

Color

It has a range of values from 0-10. This value tells us the amount of blending of colors that the patch will have. If the value is set to 0, the blending is disabled or there is no blending of colors.

Direct Adjustments

adjusts things directly to the image/layer and can destroy the image. (Brightness/Contrast, Levels Adjustments, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation)

Adjustment Layers

give you greater control and flexibility over image edits than direct adjustments — you can make nondestructive adjustments to the colors and tones in your image, and keep editing the adjustment layers without permanently changing the pixels in the image

Parts of Adjustment Layers

Brightness/Contrast Levels Curves Exposure Vibrance Hue/Saturation Color Balance Black and White Photo Filter Channel Mixer Color Lookup Invert Posterize Gradient Map' Selective Color

Brightness/Contrast

Adjusts the tonal range of your image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image

Levels

modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights. It's one of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel and using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting your images.It has the power to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and mid tones in a histogram.

Curves

lets you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image.When you click on the curves adjustment, a diagonal line on a graph appears (left) which represents your image's tonal range. The x-axis represents the original values in the image, while the y-axis represents the newly adjusted values. Along each axis, you can see that there's a strip that's a gradient from black to white, representing the tonal range of the image.To increase the overall quality and contrast of your image, click to add points on the line of your graph. Once you've added a point, you can drag the point up or down with your mouse. Pulling the point down darkens your image, and pulling the point up brightens it.

Exposure

lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset, and Gamma. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image; Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.

Vibrance

This adjustment layer modifies the vibrance of an image in two ways. The Saturation slider evenly increases the saturation of all the colors in the image. The Vibrance slider modifies the level of saturation of all the colors too but more selectively, focusing on the least saturated colors and avoiding over-saturation of skin tones.

Hue/Saturation

lets you adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of your entire image or in a specific range of colors in your image.

Color Balance

changes the mixture of colors in an image.

Black and White

lets you make grayscale versions of your images.

Photo Filter

adds different color filters on top of your image.

Gradient Map

This tool converts the grayscale range of an image to a custom gradient fill.this tool comes with a bunch of different gradients, all of which you can adjust to your liking in the gradient editor window. Checking the "Reverse" box inverts the colors of your gradient.

Selective Color

selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your imag

Channel Mixer

modifies the colors in your image to create tinted or grayscale images.

Threshold

turns your image into a black-and-white image.

Color Lookup

This adjustment comes with a bunch of pre-packaged "looks" for you to apply to your image.

Invert

makes a photo negative effect by inverting the colors of your image.

Posterize

produces a flat, poster-like appearance to a photo by reducing the number of brightness values (levels) in the image.