Brush tool in Photoshop. Photoshop tool - healing brush
Let's look at how you can resize an image, as well as the Stamp, Healing Brush and Patch Tool.
Menu command Image > Pixel Dimensions
Stamp tool (Clone Stamp and Pattern Stamp).
Healing Brush Tool.
Patch Tool.
Resize the image.
The Image > Image Size menu command allows you to view and change the image size. Pixel Dimensions- size of memory occupied by the image. Usually does not match actual size file on disk, because Many file formats support image compression.
Width, Height- width and height of the image in pixels or as a percentage of original size. Explanation: If I want to reduce the image by half, then I enter the number 50 in the width and height fields, next to it I select from the list pixels(pixels), and percent(percent).
Document Size- document size when printed. Parameters Width, Height, Resolution - width, height, image resolution.
Checkbox Constrain Proportions when turned on, it maintains the proportions of the image: when the width changes, the height automatically changes, and vice versa. When the proportions mode is turned on, a bracket with a chain link icon connecting the width and height is shown.
Resample Image- an algorithm that determines how “extra” pixels are discarded when the image size is reduced and new ones are created when the image is enlarged. Bicubic is the most accurate of the proposed algorithms.
Stamp tool.
The stamp tool group includes two stamps - Clone Stamp(cloning stamp) and (pattern stamp).
Clone Stamp(cloning stamp) is used mainly to duplicate image fragments or to eliminate defects in the image such as dust, scratches, spots. To use the cloning stamp, you need to move the mouse cursor to the place you want to duplicate and click Alt+ left button mice. In this case, the program will remember the point from which you will copy the image. Next, you need to move the mouse to the location of the defect and, by pressing the left button, paint over the defect with an image from the area that you copied. The size of the area to be painted depends on the stamp size you select in the Options palette.
Good results can be obtained by using a stamp tool with different meanings opacity (Opacity), intensity (Flow) and blending modes (Mode). By the way, the effect of the stamp is not limited to one image. It allows you to transfer areas of one picture to another. The picture shows how easy it is to eliminate some details from an image using this wonderful tool. For example, I didn’t like the statue of the horseman. :)
A pattern stamp works similarly to a cloning stamp, but you must define a pattern for it. This is done in the Options panel:
Select the desired pattern from the list Pattern. Checkbox Aligned aligns the pattern to the first tile, i.e. places it seam to seam. If you need to convey the pattern not exactly, but vaguely, in the style of impressionism, then turn on the checkbox of the same name Impressionist. Using a pattern stamp set as shown in the Options panel image, the rainbow smoke was drawn. Different pattern mixed with background in Darken mode(Blackout), created cracks in the asphalt.
Be sure to try applying the stamp using different blending modes and opacity - it gives amazing results.
Tools Healing Brush, Patch Tool.
The Healing Brush tool allows you to correct defects in an image based on their surroundings. Similar to the cloning tools, the Healing Brush tool is used to copy areas of an image or pattern. But unlike a stamp, the Healing Brush tool takes into account the structure, lighting, and shadows of the image area being processed. As a result, the restored part after retouching performed automatically by this tool easily fits into the rest of the image.
Using the Healing Brush tool is similar to using a stamp:
- Select the Healing Brush tool.
- Set the cloning source by clicking Alt + left mouse button in the appropriate place in the image.
- Drag the tool over the areas of the image that require restoration.
Now let's talk about the parameters of this wonderful tool. Naturally, they are all located in the Options panel.
- Several parameters that determine the shape of the brush are familiar to you: Diameter, Hardness, Spacing, Angle, Roundness. If you don't remember what these words mean, then re-read the chapter of the first lesson, "The Brush Tool."
- Blend Mode Mode: Option Replace allows you to save image parameters such as noise, grain and texture. The remaining options are familiar to you from the first lesson.
- Next, the source for pixel restoration is determined:
- Select radio button Sampled to use the current image as the source.
- Select radio button Pattern, so that the source is a pattern sample. In this case, select a sample from the drop-down list.
- You can configure the alignment type of the restored pixels: If the checkbox Aligned is turned on, then if you do not lose the point from which cloning started, unless you specifically set new source. The pixels to be restored are taken from the source sequentially, no matter how many times you stop and start brushing again. If this checkbox is turned off, the starting point for cloning is set each time you stop and start a new stroke.
Don't forget that every time you release the mouse button, the restored areas are automatically retouched, taking into account the surrounding pixels. Therefore, the Healing Brush is slower than the stamp.
Tool Patch(Patch) allows you to restore a selected area by cloning pixels taken from another area or sample. Like the Healing Brush, the Patch tool takes into account the structure, lighting, and shadows of the image area being processed. Simply put, the Patch tool creates patches on an image. Your task is to specify where this patch will be located (Destination) and what we will use to “darn” it (Source). To get a high-quality result when restoring an area with image pixels, select small areas for correction.
The illustration shows a decorative use of the Patch tool. A heart-shaped area was highlighted in the sky and patched with sunflowers. Please note that the effect of the tool was not reduced to simple cloning; the color scheme of the sky was taken into account.
How to restore an area using an image-
In that photoshop lesson we'll sort it out photoshop tool Healing Brush (Healing Brush Tool). It may also be called " Healing brush". Hotkey to access the "J" tool.
This useful tool, which can be used to remove small defects in a photograph. Let's select this tool and look at its settings first. It has some settings like the brush:
- "Size" - is responsible for the diameter of the brush;
- “Hardness” - use it to set the sharpness of the edges;
- “Interval” - tells how often the brush will repeat the pattern. It is better to leave this parameter unchanged;
- “Angle” and “Shape” - used when the shape of the brush should be special;
- It is better to leave the last parameter “Size” unchanged. It indicates settings when working with the tablet.
Also, from the settings you can select “Modes” of brush operation. There are a lot of them here and I would advise novice users to try working in each one.
After applying all the settings, let's try to work with it. The first step is to determine the source area, which corresponds as closely as possible to the place in the image that needs to be corrected. Next, we adjust the size of the brush and do not forget that it can be increased or decreased using square brackets [ and ]. After this, hold down the “Alt” key on the keyboard and click on this area with the left mouse button. This will be the area that we will apply to the defect.
In this article we will test the improved Photoshop CS5(Spot Healing Brush) with a new option (Content-Aware Healing)!
For the first time, this tool appeared in Photoshop CS2. The Spot Healing Brush is used to quickly repair small problem areas in an image, such as skin blemishes, dust, dirt, small scratches, etc.
Its speed and performance make it ideal for fixing small problems before moving on to big ones.
The strength of the Spot Healing Brush is that it does almost everything itself, with only the slightest input on our part, but, oddly enough, this is also its weakness.
Here's how this tool worked in Photoshop from CS2 until today: you simply clicked on a small area with an unwanted texture, then watched as Photoshop miraculously transferred a randomly selected texture to that place from a nearby area located near the point you clicked on. As long as the problem area was small enough or there was a large area with good texture nearby, the Spot Healing Brush gave us acceptable results.
But when the problem area became too large and complex, and there was little good texture nearby, the Spot Healing Brush began to work poorly, now we are forced to turn to healing brush(Healing Brush) Patch(Patch Tool) or Stamp(Clone Stamp Tool), which require more time and effort.
IN Photoshop CS5 the main idea of this tool has not changed. We still click on the problem area and let the Spot Healing Brush do the rest of the work without our participation. But this time Adobe improved the tool very much, now with a new tool Content-aware recovery(Content-Aware Healing) the result will be of higher quality, because Photoshop now selects the texture based on the content of the image! Let's check it out!
We will not look at the work of the Spot Healing Brush in great detail, because our goal is to look at the work of “Content-Aware Healing”.
Here's a photo I once took near a construction site - numbers spray-painted on the sidewalk:
0 + 875 ...I want only numbers to remain on the sidewalk 875 , but will it be easy?
Removing pavement art (at least from a photograph) is usually a simple, but still labor-intensive task. For the sake of experiment, let's see how the new and improved Spot Healing Brush copes with this task. Photoshop CS5.
First I create new layer above the layer with the original photo.
To do this I click on the icon New Layer(New Layer) at the bottom of the layers palette.
When the new layer appeared I clicked LMB twice by its name " Layer 1"("Layer 1") and renamed it to " healing brush", then pressed Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to confirm changes.
This way I can perform all the manipulations on the new layer without damaging the original:
I select the Spot Healing Brush from the Tools panel. IN Photoshop CS5 it is still in the drop-down menu along with other healing tools (standard healing brush - Healing Brush, Patch - Patch Tool and Red Eyes - Red Eye Tool).
Therefore, if you do not see it on the toolbar, simply click on any tool from this group and hold it until a pop-up list appears, select the tool from it (Spot Healing Brush):
New "Content Aware" option
With the "Spot Healing Brush" active, look up at Settings panel, you will see not only the options that have always been here: Resp. approaching(Proximity Match) and Create texture(Create Texture), but also a new one, which appeared only in Photoshop CS5, - Content-aware(Content-Aware):
Adobe so I'm sure you'll definitely want to use the new feature " Content-aware", which made it selected by default. Before we try it, let's see how good it is Spot Healing Brush performs work at old setting Resp. approaching(Proximity Match).
I select it in the settings panel:
Honestly, " Spot Healing Brush" was never intended to be used over such large areas. You can tell by its name that it was designed to fix small spots, so I won't try to completely erase the sign from the sidewalk, but I will try on a small area. I'll increase zero and Spot healing brush, with the setting " Resp. approaching", selected in the settings panel, I draw a number along the top.
The area I'm painting over is marked with transparent black so I can see where I've already brushed.
With the setting " Resp. approaching» Photoshop it simply tries to transfer the texture of nearby areas onto the texture I'm drawing on. This is how it works in versions CS2, CS3 and CS4.
When I release the mouse button, we see the result:
It turned out better than I expected, but I still can't call the result good.
First of all, where does the color blue come from? I don't remember it being on the original. It also seems Photoshop Randomly used image areas between two sides of the border, and simply placed them either.
Did it replace the texture I was painting on with another one? Yes. Is the image quality usable? No.
Let's try to do the same thing, only with the setting " Content-aware» (Content-Aware), which can be selected in the settings panel.
I again draw numbers on the top:
When everything is ready, I release the mouse button and give Photoshop do your work. When setting " Content-aware» Photoshop « thinks» longer, analyzing the image and finding The best way « cure" it, so be prepared to wait a few seconds longer to get the result:
The result is several times better! Instead of randomly distributing the texture around the area I was painting on, Photoshop checked the contents of the image and shapes so the texture was placed in the correct place.
The result is still not perfect, I will correct the shortcomings with the tool Stamp(Clone Stamp Tool), but new feature « Content-aware" V Photoshop CS5"" did a great job Good work, from which I will build further, such “ Spot healing brush"was not present in older versions of the program.
Let's try to fix another image using " Content-aware recovery"and look at the result.
One day I was walking around with my camera looking for things that I could use as interesting textures for different photo effects. The brick wall in this photo suits me, but the wooden pillar is in the way:
Let's see if " Spot Healing Brush» remove this pillar from the photo.
We'll try this tool again first with the " Resp. approaching", and then " Content-aware».
You know, before I would never have even thought of using “ Spot healing brush" For similar works in older versions of the program.
First I select " Resp. approaching"(Proximity Match) in the settings panel, we will use old version healing brush. For quick change of my brush, I press the left and right square brackets on the keyboard - “ [ " And " ] "And I run my brush along the pillar:
When I reached the bottom, I released the mouse button. Remember, I said that before it would never have occurred to me to even try this previous versions Photoshop?
That's why:
Well, the idea was not a good one.
I can say with confidence that the work " Spot healing brush" failed. She turned the wooden post into a blurry mass. If I had not canceled my last step by pressing the keys Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) and didn’t try again, then nothing good would come of this image. But let's now look at the work" Content-aware recovery" Select from the settings panel the option " Content-aware» (Content-Aware) and again brush the column from top to bottom:
Try again, this time using Content-aware recovery.
I release the mouse button and wait a few seconds - Photoshop analyzes the contents of the image, and get the result:
Was there a wooden post here a few seconds ago? And where did the shadow come from?
This time " Spot Healing Brush"didn't leave behind a blurry mess, she did great job, especially considering how little effort I put into it. I just ran the brush from top to bottom along the post - that's all I did, and the rest of the work Photoshop done by myself!
Photoshop now analyzes your image and tries to make the result look natural - as if unnecessary object and was not in the image at all. Of course, the result is still not perfect, you must correct it with other retouching tools (standard healing brush - Healing Brush, Patch - Patch Tool, Stamp - Clone Stamp Tool).
Content-aware recovery elevates " Spot healing brush" on new level. Adobe I was right when I made the option "" selected by default. Content-aware"(Content-Aware), because if you ever see its action in Photoshop CS5, you will no longer return to the old option " Resp. approaching"(Proximity Match)!
Translator: Miroshnichenko Valeria;
In this lesson, we'll look at the rest of the Photoshop Toolbar and get familiar with the program using a variety of tools.
Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, Red Eye Tool
These tools are very important if you do a lot of facial retouching. The easiest to use is the Spot Healing Brush Tool. You just need to find the blemish on the skin that needs to be removed and simply click on it. This is not a very advanced skin cleaning technique, but it is a basic and very quick tool.
Below you can see a before and after image. I simply clicked on the marked points with the Spot Heal Brush tool and Photoshop created nice skin on those points based on the nearby area.
The Heal Brush Tool is the same as the Spot Heal Brush Tool, but the only difference is that it requires a swatch, and Photoshop will base it on the area we set as the swatch. And inserting this pattern is even easier: Heal your points based on the area you Alt-click on.
The Patch tool is completely different from the previous two tools, but is very useful for seamlessly applying skin or other surfaces. Let's remove the dark bags under the girl's eyes. I could have used the Spot Heal Brush tool, but the Patch Tool is much easier to do. In the image below you can see the area that I selected with the Patch tool. Now just drag it three times lower. This will create skin on the selected area based on the area that we dragged the selection onto. This process is even easier to do than it is to tell, so it’s better to try it and see for yourself.
You can see the result below. It turned out well, but the difference is noticeable, but perhaps this is what you want when retouching a portrait in Photoshop. On the other hand, if you've been using the Spot Healing Brush like crazy and some parts of your face are unsuccessful and don't match with other areas of your face. Let's solve this problem too. Select the problem area with the Patch tool and drag it a couple of times onto nearby good areas of the skin. This will solve the problem. And again, it turned out to be harder to describe than to do.
Finally, let's talk about the Red Eye Tool. The Red Eye tool requires you to select the iris of the eye with the red eye problem, and it will try to remove the red color from the pupil. Although we know of many other options to do this (Curves or Channels), this tool does a pretty good job.
Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, Color Replacement Tool, Mixer Brush Tool
The Brush Tool is perhaps the most popular tool in the Toolbox. You can use this tool to fill in the pixels of your image. The Round Brush is one of the default brushes selected when you open it for the first time, you may have already tried it out a little. This brush has two important settings, which you can change: size and hardness. Hardness is the definition of the edges of the brush (or how soft they are). Set the Hardness to 100% and you will be able to paint with crisp edges.
Set it to minimum and you'll get slightly blurred edges, which blend into the background.
In the optional brush panel (usually located at the top of the screen, right next to the menu bar), you can also change the brush blending mode. Combined with the layer's blend mode, this option offers you some creative options. It is very useful to use keyboard shortcuts, such as square brackets ([, ]). By clicking on the left bracket “[“ you will reduce the brush size when right key“]” increases the size. If you hold Shift key while pressing these brackets, you can increase/decrease the hardness of the brush.
The round brush is not the only brush: Photoshop offers you a very large range of brushes in different shapes to suit your needs.
Still missing some brushes? No problem. You can create your own brush. Create a new layer, draw something with a black brush, then go to Edit>Define Brush Preset.
Give it a name and you have a new brush.
Let's paint something with this new brush.
Mmmmmm, doesn't look very good. If only we had advanced settings for brushes..... Oh wait! We have them! Go to Window>Brush to open the Brush panel and enjoy a variety of settings for your newly created brush. We can add texture on top of our brush, rotate it in all directions, make it diffuse, add another brush on top of it, and many other things. Open the brushes panel and play with the settings. You can create some cool brushes.
The Pencil tool is a stripped down version of the brush. It doesn't have a hardness function (there's actually a hardness slider, but moving it doesn't do anything), but it does have almost all the other brush functions. You might be interested in the Pencil tool if you get into dot art.
The Color Replacement tool allows you to replace some colors with others. It has a whole bunch of settings in the Options panel and offers some interesting things, but to be honest, I've never used it. Therefore, I will not go into details.
The Mix Brush tool tries to take on the properties of traditional art. But again, I don't use this tool, but if you're a traditional painter and need digital tools to get the job done, I recommend Corel Painter, which is used just for that purpose.
Clone Stamp Tool, Pattern Stamp Tool
The Stamp tool is probably my favorite tool and certainly one of my favorites (and Filter>Liquify too). It has many uses and if you are working on photo manipulation then this tool This good decision for use. In essence it is not difficult. To start using it, press Alt and click somewhere to take a sample. Then start painting. You will notice what this tool does. It clones areas from one part of the image to another. It is very effective for creating new content on an existing area and to remove skin imperfections or unwanted objects.
Tool Pattern stamp will allow you to paint the image with the desired pattern. Never used it for this!
History Brush Tool, Art History Brush Tool
The History Brush tool is a bit interesting thing, which contains a lot of power. It will allow you to paint a new layer based on the previous one. Let's say you've changed a photo a lot, but you still want it to remain in certain areas. original version. To do this, first select the previous state. Open Window>History and click on one of the small squares that follows the name of the desired state. In the image below you will notice that I selected the topmost square - the original option. Now if I create a new layer and paint over it with the History Brush, I can restore certain areas my image to the original one.
In particular I find it very powerful tool, but my work relies on adjustment layers and non-destructive editing, so I don't find it useful for me. He was very popular in days gone by, when the possibilities of non-destructive editing scared Photoshop users.
The Artistic History Brush Tool is a slightly strange tool that allows you to paint from previous state images, but in abnormal, dynamically changing forms. If you ask me, I will say that this tool is slightly useless.
Eraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool
The Eraser tool allows you to remove (clear) pixels from a layer (or layer mask). Let's say you don't like the result of your work and how your painted layer looks, grab the Eraser tool and send the painted pixels into oblivion. Alternatively, if you were smart, you could use a layer mask and non-destructively remove the unwanted pixels. You may have noticed that I use the word “Non-Destructive” quite a lot, but I do it with good intentions. When working on a document in Photoshop, it's important to be able to go back and redo or change some of your actions. This gives you the freedom to tinker with settings and adjustments endlessly without losing the original image data. Therefore, I recommend that you stay as far away from the Eraser tool as possible, and use a layer mask instead.
The Background Eraser tool is similar to the Color Replacement tool, but instead of replacing a color, it removes it. This is a useful tool if you need to get rid of certain areas of an image, but it is not very accurate. It's much better to use selection tools and techniques (like Channels and Color range), so I don't use this tool often.
The Magic Eraser tool looks and works basically like a tool Magic wand, but instead of selecting pixels, it removes them. A very useful tool if you are in a hurry and do not really care about accuracy.
The second part is over, stay with us, the third will be coming soon.
Hello! I'll tell you about the oldest tool in the program - the Brush Tool. For greater clarity, I will use Photoshop with a Russified interface, but I recommend that you get used to its English version.
So, a brush. The oldest and most necessary. A modern Photoshop brush works not only in the “classic painting” mode, but also has a number of settings and properties, which you will learn about below.
Let's start with the basics. If you launch the brush (you can select it on the toolbar or call it with the B key), working space change: the options panel of the same name will appear below the menu list, and the cursor will take the shape of the brush that was last used.
Yes, I didn't make a mistake. Brush is a multi-valued concept. In addition to the fact that this is the name of the tool itself, the same name has also been transferred to its profiles contained in sets of brushes, which in turn have a *.abr extension and are stored in the directory with the program. Every time you launch Photoshop, it loads the last set of brushes you used, which you can view and customize in the Options Bar by clicking the triangular icon.
After clicking, the tool's main parameters window will open. Here you can adjust the “Master Diameter”, roughly speaking, the size of the brush. It can have a value from 1 pixel to 2500.
Under “diameter” there is a slider for setting the hardness (Hardness). This parameter determines how much the brush should be soft edges. A hard brush will completely match its size and color, while a soft brush will have a zone of partially transparent pixels along the edges. The value of the above parameters can be adjusted using marker sliders or written in the corresponding field above them.
But the fastest way to adjust the diameter and hardness of the brush is with hot keys: [ decreases diameter, [ increases; When you press these keys with Shift, you can change the hardness in the same way.
Even lower is a window with loaded sets of brushes. By default, one set is loaded, but you can load additional ones by selecting the appropriate command in the drop-down menu:
Well, having studied the basic settings, you can relax a little and draw. To start, I'll take one of the standard hard brushes and show it in action using different blending modes.
To describe each mode in detail and talk about techniques and examples of application, it will take a separate lesson. Briefly about the interaction of colors in different modes write the developers.
They also provided for another brush of the same name for “ fine tuning» tool. The Brushes panel (or palette) has this icon:
If you don't find it in your workspace, can you call the palette through the Window menu? "Brushes"
This panel allows you to fine-tune the brush, its shape, dynamics, and interaction with manipulators (mouse or tablet stylus). It will be better if you play with the markers and checkmarks in this window yourself - you will get the hang of it faster. Don't be afraid to mess something up: any changes to the brush will happen only after saving it with the new parameters. But we'll look at this, as well as creating a brush from scratch, a little later.
