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With some image cleanup tasks you need to strike a balance between a relatively
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automated approach and one where you can apply a little bit of control over the process.
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And this image obviously needs a lot of work but there are some good examples
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within this image of areas where it's best to exercise a little bit of control.
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Rather than using automated processes. Let's take a look at some of those areas,
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I'll zoom in a little bit here, and we can see some blemishes we might like to
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clean up on the eye as well as on the forehead and into the hairline here.
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Let's take a look at how we can clean these areas up, balancing the desire for
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an automated adjustment with the control we need to ensure the best result.
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I'll start off by creating a new empty image layer.
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I'll click on the Create New Layer button, the blank sheet of paper icon at
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the bottom of the Layers panel. I'll go ahead and double-click on the
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name for this layer and type a new name that is more meaningful.
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I'll just type cleanup and then press Enter or Return.
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I'll then go to the toolbox where I can choose the Healing Brush tool which is
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hiding below the Spot Healing Brush tool, so I'll go ahead and click and hold the
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mouse on the button for the Spot Healing Brush tool.
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And then choose Hueing Brush tool from the flyout menu that appears.
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One of the key things to keep in mind when it comes to the Spot Healing Brush
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tool versus the Hueing Brush tool is that the Hueing Brush tool allows us to choose
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a source of pixels to use for our cleanup work.
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The Spot Healing Brush tool, by contrast, will automatically choose a source For
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the area that you specify you want Photoshop to cleanup, so the healing
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brush tool gives us a little bit more control when it comes to the geography of
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cleaning up our image. The only drawback, really, is that the
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healing brush tool does not include the content aware feature, so on the options
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bar you won't find content aware among your options.
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You'll simply need to set the source to sampled.
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You also want to make sure that the sample option is set to all layers.
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So I'll click the pop-up here and make sure that I've chosen all layers.
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And then I want to make sure to turn on the button to the right here.
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You can see that it is pressed in. That button means that adjustment layers
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should be ignored when you're painting with the healing brush tool.
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These settings in combination allow me to work on a separate layer, but not have
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the effect of adjustment layers taken into account while I'm painting my
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corrective pixels. With everything configured, I'm ready to
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get started, I'll go ahead and choose a source.
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I'll clean up this area of the eye first. I'll hold the Alt key on windows, or the
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Option key on Macintosh, and then click on an area that I think represents a good
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source, for the area that I want to clean up.
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So in effect I'm copying pixels from this area, and then I'll go paint them over
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into this area. I'll release the mouse and Photoshop will
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blend this area into the destination, so that everything matches up reasonably
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well I'll repeat that process over here, I'll hold the Alt or Option key and click
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on a source of pixels, and then I'll paint there, and also there, as well as
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there, in order to sort of rebuild that shadow area.
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In similar fashion, I can go and choose a source for other portions of the image
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that need to be cleaned up. Now, by and large, I'm only going to use
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the healing brush tool for situations where I really want to control which
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source of pixels will be used. I'll go ahead and pan across the photo
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here for example. And you can see I have blemish that's
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going across the hairline. and so I want to choose the hairline,
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holding the alt or option key while clicking in that area of good hairline
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and then click and drag across that blemish.
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And I can repeat that process as needed. For additional areas, until I've
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completely removed that blemish. So you can see working with the Healing
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Brush tool, does have it's disadvantages. It's not as fast to use as the Spot
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Healing Brush tool. There's a little more work involved
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because we need to set the source of pixels, and we don't have the benefit of
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the content aware technology. But that said we do have the significant
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advantage of being able to choose a specific source of pixels for our image
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cleanup work. And that can be very important in certain situations.
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So more often than not, the spot healing brush tool, is the tool I go to first.
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But when I want to be able to choose a specific source in order to improve my
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results for image cleanup, I'll make use of the healing brush tool.