Re: Question on spot healing brush tool


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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:46:25 -0400, "KatWoman"
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General rule is to use the healing/patch tools on fairly even areas,
not
too close to edges.
The clone tool takes care of that.
I almost always use the spot healing, healing, patch (for larger areas)
and the clone tool in combination.
I use the keyboard shortcuts J and S for rapid switching between the
tools. This way I can also press TAB for more workspace.
Practise, after a while your eye detects what tool to use to get the
job
done.
There's always the undo function, if you make a mistake.


Old habits die hard
before we had so many history steps

I leave my orig on the background layer
I work on a duplicate layer above it for retouching

If you make a real mess and want to undue it after more than 20 steps
I erase it out of the retouch layer
make another background dupe and layer>merge down
(you could also copy/paste back areas from the original)

I also found out (on this NG) you can change the history option to
delete
steps out of order without losing all the ones below.

You can change the number of history steps in the preferences.
Mine are set to 50 as I love trying-out things, which don't always work
:-)
But for cloning, I usually work on a fresh layer with 'all layers' checked
in the clonetool options. Works with healing too. Pity it doesn't work
with
the patchtool.
The first thing I do when I open an image is to press CTRL-J,
it's become natural. Any changes that are really destructive can then be
recovered by the history brush targetted on the first snapshot.

Thanks for the replies.

Must admit that the comment about old habits strikes right home.
All through my years trial and error learning I never could get the
idea of layers. Only having some time recently and actually getting to
do some reading on the program has the light started to glimmer.

Still find myself working direct on the background and just scrubbing
and reloading it when I've screwed up big time.

K
you can always copy your orignal and paste it in as a dupe layer
layers are like the best ever
and maybe the most important feature of PS
what a waste of good features in PS

just drag your layer holding mouse down,
to the little folded corner paper icon

to see the layer below use click the eyeball
I love to go back and forth to see the changes at different magnification

or ctrl J



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