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When the healing brush came out (and every since) it has been heralded at a gift to mankind. As a result I keep trying it again and again, always failing to see it great virtue. I’ve used the clone tool for hundreds, probably more than a thousand hours and I almost always find it a superior tool to the healing brush. About all the healing brush seems to be good for is small blemishes surrounded by a uniform textured area at some distance from any other pattern.
A major problem is that it picks up any adjacent lighter or darker tone and smears it into the ‘healed’ area.
In Martin Evening’s book ‘Adobe Photoshop for Photographers’ he says you can select the area you want to clone to separate it from the adjacent area and this will prevent the smearing/bleeding He even gives an illustration of doing this. But, I don’t know how he made that illustration because it doesn’t work for me. In the example below the white area on the left was selected with no aliasing or feathering, to separate it from the black area. Then I sampled a spot toward the left edge as the source and "healed" the smudged spot you see near the boundary between the two areas. Obviously, the selection did not prevent the smearing/bleed over.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1102/healingbrushdemohi0.gi f
Because of the white background, it may not be obvious, but this is a rectangle divided roughly in the middle. If you download it you can see the entire rectangle.
The healing brush seems to restricted to a precious few carefully selected uses, most, if not all, of which can be done equally well with the clone tool. So, why does everybody think the healing brush is such a great tool?
A major problem is that it picks up any adjacent lighter or darker tone and smears it into the ‘healed’ area.
In Martin Evening’s book ‘Adobe Photoshop for Photographers’ he says you can select the area you want to clone to separate it from the adjacent area and this will prevent the smearing/bleeding He even gives an illustration of doing this. But, I don’t know how he made that illustration because it doesn’t work for me. In the example below the white area on the left was selected with no aliasing or feathering, to separate it from the black area. Then I sampled a spot toward the left edge as the source and "healed" the smudged spot you see near the boundary between the two areas. Obviously, the selection did not prevent the smearing/bleed over.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1102/healingbrushdemohi0.gi f
Because of the white background, it may not be obvious, but this is a rectangle divided roughly in the middle. If you download it you can see the entire rectangle.
The healing brush seems to restricted to a precious few carefully selected uses, most, if not all, of which can be done equally well with the clone tool. So, why does everybody think the healing brush is such a great tool?
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