Spot Healing Brush – Spacing

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C Wright
Dec 18, 2006
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I am using PS CS2 and here is one little tiny thing for which I can’t seem to find an answer. The Spot Healing Brush Tool (the one that does not require picking a spot to clone from) lists three main choices for configuring the brush. The options are: Diameter, Hardness and Spacing. The first two are, of course, obvious but what does Spacing do? I have searched Adobe help relative to this tool without success. I use this tool a lot (usually with spacing set somewhere in the 15 to 25 range) but it bugs me that I really don’t know what I am controlling with this parameter.
Chuck
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Don Leman
Dec 18, 2006
Imagine drawing a line with a pencil. If the spacing were set wide you would see a line of dashes. The smaller the spacing the more like a line it would appear.

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"C Wright" wrote in message
I am using PS CS2 and here is one little tiny thing for which I can’t seem to find an answer. The Spot Healing Brush Tool (the one that does not require picking a spot to clone from) lists three main choices for configuring the brush. The options are: Diameter, Hardness and Spacing. The first two are, of course, obvious but what does Spacing do? I have searched Adobe help relative to this tool without success. I use this tool a lot (usually with spacing set somewhere in the 15 to 25 range) but it bugs me that I really don’t know what I am controlling with this parameter.
Chuck
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C Wright
Dec 19, 2006
On 12/18/06 2:14 PM, in article fEChh.495425$, "Don Leman" wrote:

Imagine drawing a line with a pencil. If the spacing were set wide you would see a line of dashes. The smaller the spacing the more like a line it would appear.

Thanks! That is a very clear explanation.

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