Darken

I have an image that I want to darken some of its highlights using the Healing Brush Tool.
Here is what I did: I created a new layer and set its blending mode to darken and than used the healing tool in normal mode. That worked fine.

For a comparison I did it a second way which is: created a new layer and left it in normal mode and set the healing brush tool's mode to darken and use it to make the corrections. Both ways gave me good results. Is one of the two methods that I used better than the other to accomplish this task? Do both of the above methods normally give the same results?
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  • Re: Highlights
    ... I did it by creating a new layer and setting the ... blending mode of that layer to Darken and than used the healing brush tool, ... mode set to Normal and set the Healing Brush mode to darken and got the ...
    (alt.graphics.photoshop)
  • Re: Darken
    ... For a comparison I did it a second way which is: created a new layer and left it in normal mode and set the healing brush tool's mode to darken and use it to make the corrections. ... sometimes highlight areas have no data so they do need fill with texture and color ...
    (alt.graphics.photoshop)
  • Highlights
    ... I did it by creating a new layer and setting the blending mode of that layer to Darken and than used the healing brush tool, in normal mode, to get the results. ... Than I tried it leaving the new layer mode set to Normal and set the Healing Brush mode to darken and got the same results. ...
    (alt.graphics.photoshop)
  • Re: Darken
    ... Healing Brush Tool. ... I created a new layer and set its blending mode to ... darken and than used the healing tool in normal mode. ... unless you are fixing the texture of your image as well for some reason ...
    (alt.graphics.photoshop)