So you might be thinking, “Well, it sounds like you’d always want to use the Healing Brush, as the fix looks less obvious because it’s not making a straight duplicate, plus you have two brushes to choose from, and a third if you count the Patch tool (which is for healing larger areas or objects).” And all that would be right on the money, but the Healing Brush has an Achilles heel (see what I did there?) in that it works best when the object you want to remove is all by itself, such as a speck, spot, smudge, telephone wire, or a can lying in the grass-something that’s kind of all by With the regular Healing Brush, it relies on you to choose the proper area from which to “sample,” and that usually works out really well. If you use the Spot Healing Brush, Photoshop automatically chooses the area it thinks has the proper tone and texture, and it’s sometimes way off with where it chooses, so the results can be really bad. So the result isn’t an exact duplicate, but more of a repair that’s influenced by the area you choose.
The Healing Brush also uses an area you choose but as a general “use this type of tone and texture” where it works its magic.
The Clone Stamp toolmakes an exact copy of an area you choose, and then you paint that area over the thing you want to remove from your photo.The week before that we looked at the Healing Brush and its cousin the Patch tool, but today we’re going to look at which to use and when, because each has certain characteristics that make it suited for certain kinds of tasks (which is a fancy way of saying, sometimes one works better sometimes the other works better).įirst, a reminder of what the two tools do: Last week we talked about one of the big reasons I jump over to Photoshop from Lightroom: to remove unwanted “stuff” in my photo, and we went over Photoshop’s very awesome Clone Stamp tool.
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