February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
101 pages
2h 34m
English
Content preview from The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop
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Spot Healing Brush
The Spot Healing Brush is a fairly recent addition to the Content-Aware options. Using this option means the Spot Healing Brush works more intelligently and does a better job than the original tool. I don’t fully understand how it does such a better job—nor do I care! It just works better.
Here’s an interesting—and fast—way to use the Spot Healing Brush tool: Heal along a path. If you have a photo with a series of drooping electrical wires, as shown in Figure 2.37, you can use a more automated method of removing them compared to manually painting with the Spot Healing Brush
Figure 2.37 The Spot Healing Brush can remove these ...