Setting Spot Heal Options |
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Spot and Patch healing allows you to repair blemishes in your images or to remove unwanted parts of a scene by copying from a similar part of an image. Spot Healing blends out detail in a specific part of an image, while Patch Healing copies a part of an image (the source) over another part of an image (the destination). You can easily change from Spot Healing to Patch Healing to determine which is best for your image. For more information about lens correction effects, see the Understanding Advanced Image Editing Tools topic. Each Heal point corrects separately for color (Chroma) and brightness (Luma), and each point can be set to correct for either Chroma or Luma or both. Each Heal point has an adjustable size (Radius) that can be adjusted to ensure you only apply healing to a large enough area to fully cover the blemish in your image. You should use a Radius that is just larger than the item you are correcting. The hardness (Feather) of the Heal Point is also adjustable and is set as a percentage of the Radius of the Heal Point, and is shown as a dotted line within your Heal Point. The area within the dotted line will be have more Healing applied, and the healing will be smoothly blended into the original image between the dotted circle and the full circle. Setting Spot Heal Destination:
Note: The destination point in your image will be shown with a circle. Moving a Spot Heal Destination:
Note: The destination point in your image will be centered on the point where you release the mouse button. Change a Heal Spot to a Patch Spot:
Note: The source point for your Patch will be centered on the point where you release the mouse button
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Note: The source point for your Patch will be automatically places near the deestination. Change a Patch Spot to a Heal Spot:
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Note: The destination point must have either Luma or Chroma set to Patch to have a source point.
Note: The destination point in your image will be centered on the point where you release the mouse button.
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Note: Once a spot is removed, all settings for that spot are also removed, so it may be better to set both Luma and Chroma to "Preserve Original" to temporarily disable Healing on a single point. Each Heal Point can be set to correct for Luma and Chroma in one of the following modes:
To change Spot Heal Options:
Keyboard Control of Spot Heal Options Many of the options and controls on the Spot Heal can be operated by keyboard and mouse without needing to open the Spot Heal Tool window (available under Tools -> Advanced). You can create, move and delete points using just the mouse, and can change between Heal and Patch with the mouse (using the CTRL key in conjunction with the mouse, as described above). You can use the Left Bracket key "[" to make the spot circle smaller and use the Right Bracket key "]" to make the radius larger. Press and hold the Spacebar to briefly switch to the Pan Cursor - this will hide the Spot circles, allowing you to quickly judge your healing. |