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Using the Healing Brush for consistent results

Using the Healing Brush for consistent results - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using the Healing Brush for consistent results

- In this movie, I want to briefly talk about how we can improve the skin by using the healing brush, and I also want to talk about the topic of consistency between multiple photographs. So here you can see, I have two photographs I have taken, they're both of the same person. And let's say that we begin over here on this image and we create a new layer. We'll go ahead and name this layer "Skin" Next, we decide that we want to remove the mole which is right next to the nose. So I zoom in on the image, and great tool to do that is the Healing Brush. Not the Spot Healing Brush, and the reason is that it's too close to an important area of the nose that needs to be noticeable. So with the Healing Brush, you want to make sure you're sampling all layers. You want to use a nice, small brush here. So I'm going to make sure my brush is nice and small. And then next, I have a diffusion value which is the softness of the edge. We can either have higher or lower. I'm going to have it right in…

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