Photoshop Healing Brush Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so this tutorial we're going to be talking about the healing brush, and this is what Photoshop has given us, kind of to help us out with the dust on our camera and getting rid of pimples and stuff that we don't want there to be. Now, this is similar to the clone brush, because you can actually get rid of stuff, but I can show you a quick example of why it's not exactly like the clone brush. What I'm going to do, is I'm going to actually sample a part of this mountain with the clone and click, and as you can see, I got a real-time--and that's actually a bad example. Let me show you with the brush a little bit harder. If I actually click on my--with alt, and got the little target with the clone brush, and I clicked, you can actually see it's a real-time example of what I sampled. If I got my healing brush and I tried to do the same thing, and I hold on to my alt key got the little target, and click with my mouse and came up here. It's going to do something a little different, and a little weird. It's not exactly like the clone brush, because what it does is it actually blends your original sample with where you're trying to place that sample. So you got the texture of the mountain, but the color of the sky. So, what this is actually good for, is--and let me show you guys the shortcut for step backwards is control command "Z", and you got that backwards and you can actually go backwards--it's actually, I'm sorry--alt command "Z", or alt control "Z" in Photoshop on PC. What you want to do is actually click with the healing brush, and you can actually take stuff out by sampling, just like the clone, but it actually just blends stuff for you. It's a really, really clean way to get rid of spots, like I'm telling you right here. Sometimes the clone brush doesn't do such a great job because it doesn't blend, it--all it does is sample an exact replica of what you're trying to do, but if--I can give you an example right here, I mean, I'm going to go over this with the healing brush and it looks perfectly fine. If I'm going to go over the same thing with, with say for instance, the clone tool, it's probably not going to look that--it looks good, but it--you know, there's sometimes areas that are not going to look that good, it's just going to look kind of funny. So sometimes the healing brush is good in the sample to where it actually just blends everything together without giving you hard edges. One particular area where the healing brush is not good, is when you're trying to take some--a sample out of a very dark area, and you're going to bring it into a very light area that has a different color, say for instance, right here. That--say for instance I wanted to mess with this mountain right here, and take something out right there, and I click right by the edge. It's going to bring up some of the mountain color, so that's the instance when the healing brush is not good; when you're next to an edge of hard contrast and color. Basically, that is it for the healing brush, and you can see it's a very effective tool, and it's a very fun tool. "