By using the spot healing brush in content-aware mode I was able to carefully remove all of these to produce the finished photo shown beneath the original.

In the Figure 3 example below there were a lot of electric cables and wires in the original photograph that spoiled the view. Let’s now look at what the spot healing brush is capable of when used in this mode. The spot healing brush also features a Content-Aware mode which intelligently works out how best to fill the areas you retouch when you use the spot healing brush. This will give the spot healing brush a better clue as to which areas to sample. It is a good idea when using this tool to retouch larger areas, for the brush direction to be coming from the side that contains the most suitable texture to sample from. And because the brush is intelligently looking around for the good pixel data to sample from it is best to apply brush strokes that drag inwards from the side where the best source data exists (see Figure 2).įigure 2 In Proximity Match mode, the spot healing brush works by searching automatically to find the best pixels to sample from to carry out a repair. You can use the spot healing brush in this mode to click away and zap small blemishes, but when you are repairing larger areas in a picture you will usually obtain better results if the brush size used is smaller than the defective area.

It then uses the pixel data that has been sampled in this way to replace the defective pixels beneath where you are painting. The Proximity Match mode analyzes the data, around the area where you are painting, to identify the best area to sample the pixel information from. The spot healing tool has three basic modes of operation (see Figure 1 for the spot healing brush tool Options bar). Figure 1 The spot healing brush Options bar.

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