Comments on: Use Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush to Heal Spots

By: Retouch Tool in Adobe Camera Raw

Retouch Tool in Adobe Camera Raw — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:24:43 +0000

[...] promised in the Spot Healing Brush Tutorial, we’re now taking a look at the Retouch Tool in ACR (and Lightroom?). This tool is a little [...]

By: Cyler

Cyler — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:41:02 +0000

I found Lightroom’s spot-healing tool to be better at removing the actual spot, but the super clunky interface of it makes Photoshop’s equivalent much better for me.

By: Trude

Trude — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:15:52 +0000

Don’t forget your [ and ] keys to make the brush size smaller and bigger, respectively! It really helped my sanity when I found that out. And playing around with the retouch option in LR, it seems that those keys work there too.

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:01:35 +0000

Thanks for the comments and insights on the healing tools, Susheel. It should be interesting to continue this conversation into ACR and Lightroom — I’m certainlly curious to hear how some of these tools differ between software packages and which ones people prefer.

Oh, and about the ad… thanks! Though it’s not 100% certain yet (they’re on a one week trial right now). I’m also going to test out their service this week before we talk about a paid spot.

By: Susheel Chandradhas

Susheel Chandradhas — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:06:11 +0000

BTW, congratulations on the ads… I just noticed the first one…

By: Susheel Chandradhas

Susheel Chandradhas — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:05:06 +0000

Brian, Luis,

I worked with LR 2 beta for a while, and found the retouch options to be really neat. Now, you’re going to say… but the spot healing tool is the same in both LR1 and LR2; and you’d be right… however, the placement - the top right, right below the histogram - is very convenient, and that makes it a winner (along with the dodge and burn retouch options…

I’m not sure about ACR, but from what I’ve seen, its a bit depressing in the interface and workflow department (but you have bridge for that).

However, having said that, the Photoshop version of the spot healing brush is much more flexible, letting you really really zoom in when needed….

Using the spot healing brush alongside the healing brush tool is a winner. If you had to make me choose one of them to work with on a deserted island, i’d pick the healing brush tool though…

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:16:27 +0000

hmm… I’m not 100% sure that the retouch tool in Lightroom is the same as ACR, but I would imagine it is. I’ll definitely do that article within the next week or so.

By: Luis Cruz

Luis Cruz — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:40:42 +0000

Also, before anybody else says it I’ll say it first: the Retouch Tool in ACR (and probably Lightroom) is WAY better than the Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop — so I’ll cover that one in another article.

Really?!? I’ve tried to use LR’s retouch tool a few times, and I’m not fond of it. I’m very comfortable with Photoshop, so maybe that’s why I found the LR retouch tool clunky. I’ll be waiting for your next article - maybe that’ll change my mind.

By: photographyVoter.com

photographyVoter.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:12:09 +0000

Use Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush to Heal Spots…

Got spots? Don’t reach for the Clone Stamp — the Spot Healing Brush is what you need….