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Using the Healing Brush in Clone mode

Using the Healing Brush in Clone mode - Lightroom Tutorial

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Using the Healing Brush in Clone mode

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- [Instructor] The Healing Brush tool gives you two modes to work with, Heal or Clone. If one doesn't produce the results you expect, try the other. I'm going to get rid of the nameplate because it's distracting. Activate the Healing Brush. Size the brush. It's possible to paint out the nameplate in one stroke, but I'm going to do two strokes in order to get a variance in texture. Show the tool overlay and move the source pin if needed. Heal mode blends the source and target areas, but because the tones are so different, it doesn't work. Switch to Clone mode. The source area is pasted on top of the target area. Move the source pin so the vertical lines line up. Use the arrow keys for fine adjustments. Now paint out the rest of the nameplate. The repetition of lines and paint chips show the area has been copied. Let's fix that. Make the brush smaller. Hide the tool overlay to work on top of the original source…

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