Re: PS 7's Healing Brush

["t labarbera" <tlbtlb@mail.com>]

<<From: "H. Averbach" <haverbach@libcom.com>: I have no reason to upgrade to Photoshop 7 except if the new "Healing
Brush" tool REALY works, does a very good job of it, and requires far less time to achieve a good result than would using the History Brush and Rubber Stamp tools.

Definitely worth the upgrade price...I used the clone tool a lot and have found the healing brush to be just terrific...the whole process is much, much quicker and less aggravating...you don't have to search soooo hard to find the just the right place to clone from...

You'll find that you don't need to choose so many clone-from locations...very often, you can just choose one healing-brush-clone location and fix an entire image from that one place...depending on the image, I find that most often I choose a brush size just slightly larger than the blemish and use a single click rather than a click-drag to repair...

It's a pretty amazing tool...

Normally, most examples of using the healing brush show it being done on skin...my first experience with it was in repair an image of a dog...the original photo that I scanned from was a *mess* but using the healing brush made it *much* easier...see:
http://tlbtlb.com/tlbimages/ezzy.html   (note that the corrected image is still pretty raw--no sharpening or any other final tweaks...)

Terrie
http://tlbtlb.com/
tlbtlb@mail.com


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