From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

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Filling in the holes: Healing Brush

Filling in the holes: Healing Brush

Another tool that's similar in function to the clone tool is the healing brush and this is available as both the spot healing brush and the traditional healing brush. Let's take a look here at our image and I want to remove this object over here. I'll continue to work on my cloning layer and I'll click on the healing brush. What you'll notice is there's two methods. The spot healing brush, also set to sample all layers, gives me the ability to choose different options. I can use create texture and it will evaluate the area around it and attempt to make a new texture. Let's choose undo. I could choose content aware and again it will evaluate around the pixels and make new ones. That did pretty well. Let's undo. Or we could choose the proximity match and again it looks in nearby areas and attempts to sample. In this case, it really just cloned pixels from up here down to here. Both of these are useful techniques…

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