The healing brush tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. Like the clone tool, you use the healing brush to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. You can also open two separate images and choose pixels from one image to use in the other.

The healing brush matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the pixels to the source pixels. As a result, the repaired pixels blend seamlessly into the rest of the image.

1. Select the healing brush too.
2. Click the brush sample in the options bar and set brush options in the pop-up palette.
3. Choose a blending mode from the mode pop-up menu in the options bar.
Choose replace to preserve noise, film grain. And texture at the edges of the brush stroke.
You can choose normal or multiply as another option depending on what you are trying to correct.
4. Choose source in the options bar and select sampled to use pixels from current image.
5. Select Aligned in the options bar to sample pixels continuously, without losing the current sampling point, even if you release the mouse button. Deselect Aligned to continue to use the sampled pixels from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting.
6. Select use all layers in the options bar to sample data from all visible layers. Deselect use all layers to sample only from the active layer.
7. For the healing brush tool in sampling mode, set the sampling point by positioning the pointer in any open image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Options-slicking (Mac OS). If you are sampling from one image applying to another, both images must be in the same color mode unless one of the images is in Grayscale mode.
8. Drag in the image.
9. If there is a strong contrast at the edges of the area you want to heal, make a selection before you use the healing brush tool. The selection should be bigger than the area you want to heal but should be precisely follow the boundary of contrasting pixels. When you paint with the healing brush tool, the selection will prevent colors from bleeding in from the outside.

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