The Humble Healing Brush

It’s come a long since it was introduced to the Adobe suite (Photoshop 7.0 to be exact) in 2002. At that stage is magically blended your clone spot with the underlying pixels. I say magically, although in comparison to today’s voodoo like blending it was pretty rough. Still, it made the task of dust-spotting and cleaning up images infinitely easier than when we had to rely on careful clone-stamping at various opacity levels.

For those who are unaware of what it is, the healing brush is a specialised tool in Photoshop that, like the clone stamp, takes pixels from one point and overlays them on another point. In this way the photographer can ‘heal’ dust spots and other blemishes.

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