Retouch and Healing Tools in Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a tool for creating some amazing photos by adding awesome effects and filters. With Photoshop you can remove many imperfections through retouch and healing tools. In this tutorial you can learn about the basics of common touch-up tools. You can also learn about Photoshop’s Filters.

Spot Healing Brush Tool:

The Spot Healing Brush Tool can be used for removing the blemishes and imperfections from your photos. In order to use it you need to select the tool and then paint over the imperfection in the photo. You will notice that the Spot Healing Brush tool will automatically repair the imperfection by sampling the surrounding area.

Healing Brush Tool:

The Healing Brush Tool performs the same function as that of Spot Healing Brush but instead of determining the shading, lighting and texture automatically from the surrounding area, this tool will let you select the source manually and paint over the area which you need to replace.

Patch Tool:

With this amazing tool you can easily repair the entire area. Like Healing Brush Tool, patch Tool can also correct shading, lighting, and texture. For using the Patch Tool you just have to draw a selection by using different selection tools and once the selection is made drag the selection by using Patch Tool.

Clone Stamp Tool:

Clone Stamp Tool is a tool which can be used for cloning a portion of a photograph and placing it at some other portion of the same photograph.