Spot Healing, Healing Brush and Patch Tool in Photoshop

In this session of photoshop we will see.

Spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool, and patch tool.

Where it is used and how it is done?

Spot healing brush tool.

With the help of Spot healing brush tool if you want to hide anything or delete something in image then this Spot healing brush tool is used.

For example, in this image i want to remove this yellow pole.

So what does a spot healing brush tool do?

Whatever thing you want to remove, it will automatically see the surrounding area and then it will copy and paste there.

Lets see how it works, i will use the spot healing brush tool here.

first i will select some upper portion of the pole by clicking that.

The surrounding sky look has been copy pasted over it, see.

So like this I can remove this whole pole by using it.

It will copy the closest area and will paste it.

So this is how your pole will be removed.

See i have completely removed the pole from here.

Then comes the healing brush tool.

What does a healing brush tool do?

It is same as spot healing brush tool.

But in this you can select a specific area and then you can paste it.

 like first we have to press alt.

As soon as you press alt there will be a sign like this.

as you leave the alt, the sign will be removed from your screen.

So you have to keep pressing alt.

whatever area you want to paste at that place, you have to select that area, as i have selected here.

After selecting that i left the altar, see i will zoom in.

I want the upper portion, that is of sky instead of this arrow.

let's increase the radius of the brush.

I had told you that you have to press the bracket key on the keyboard to increase the area.

You can also increase or decrease the area from here.

After increasing the area of brush, see we will remove it this way.

As i am doing this, there is a plus on the sky which shows which area it is pasting.

But the area in it will paste and will get merged with the background at the backside. 

So see that is why this problem is caused. why?

Because the color is different from this one, see

Here this tool is of no use.

From here i will select this area and see in this way i am trying to remove it.

See i have selected this area, little rubbed.

As much as we will rub it, it keeps erasing.

See the lower portion is a little bit left, after pressing the altar we will remove it this way.

Press the altar and remove the area.

In this way we can use a healing brush tool.

From here select the patch tool.

What will the patch tool do?

Area that you will select, if you want to delete it or you want to make another copy of that selected area then a patch tool is used.

How? I will show you.

First of all we will select this much portion of the handle. See this much portion has been selected

If you will see up, there are two options.

1. Source
2. Destination

What will the source do?

Source will erase the area which you have selected

Now I'm clicking here and I'm dragging it.

See wherever the selection will move, that bit of the area will be seen in the selected area.

Just near the selected area we have this area, When, I'm dragging it till here and leaving it.

See how that area is copied and pasted in the selected portion.

Which means that handle is deleted from here.

Control Z, control D.

We will do the same thing again, but in destination not in source.

again we will select that area then.

After selecting, you have to select destination mode from here.

After that It will go wherever we take it.

Now I am taking it here, and leaving it there itself.

As I left, it has been copy pasted there.

Control D.

Now see i will select this portion.

after that i will drag in the same way.

 After dragging, i am leaving it here, see it has been merged in this way.

which means if you want to make copy of what you have selected.

so you have to use destination and if you want to delete that then you have to use source.

In photoshop we will learn about content aware move tool.

By using content aware move tool, you can select any of the area and copy and then merge it at any other place.

For example in this image you can see a cloud here.

We will select it in this way, it's a free hand tool.

you can select it in your way.

after selecting you have to pick and move and go ahead where you want to.

and after reaching there, you can leave it there.

as soon as you unpress it the free transparent will be automatically on.

If you want to adjust with the help of free transparency you can do it.

After adjusting press enter and deselect ctrl+D.

See this portion is merged here but the color is not merged.

But as you will see, Border portion is blurred.

I will show you one more thing, suppose let’s select this portion in this way and after selecting take out that portion and bring it to here.

As we will leave it free transform is on.

Making it bigger and after rotating we will enter it here and after doing ctrl D.

See borders are blurred, area is copied.

In this way, if you want to copy any area and paste it at different place so you have to use content aware move tool.

With the content aware tool, we have one more tool below. Red eye tool.

Now what is the use of the red eye tool?

Normally what happens is, when you clicking a picture with any camera, the person whom you have captured, normally because flash of the camera, red reflection remains in his eyes, so you will see red dot like something in his eyes.

so you need remove that in photoshop.

So to remove that we will use red eye too.

As per example i will show you a picture.

Here i have a photograph, let's open it, this one.

in this photo you can see the eyes of the baby is red so with the help of red eye tool will remove it.

Take red eye tool from here and let’s zoom it little bit.

What you have to do here is, as you normally make a rectangle,

Similarly you have to make a rectangle here, i will click above here and drag the rectangle.

See in this way the red eye will be removed.

Lets make it smaller and than take a bigger size.

See in this way you can remove the red eye.

Now you can see the difference in both the eyes of the baby.

So In this way you can use red eye to remove the red reflection of flash from the eyes.

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