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Spot Healing Brush is it gone or just covered?
- Thread starter KH7210
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...spot healing is destructive to pixels if used on only one layer by itself, to get things back to where they were the options are as follows:
...duplicate a selection to a layer and work on that duplicated layer, use a layer mask to reveal the underneath layer as a way of restoring...
...or the simplest method is to switch to the art history brush and paint back in...
Andrew
...duplicate a selection to a layer and work on that duplicated layer, use a layer mask to reveal the underneath layer as a way of restoring...
...or the simplest method is to switch to the art history brush and paint back in...
Andrew
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..to add to my post earlier...
...when you use the spot healing brush it is recoverable but only in that 'session' of edits, once you close, save and reopen an edited image you have no return to the original, unless you have a copy to revert back to...
...edits are easier to perform on layered, psd or tif images if you ever need to revert back to original image data...
Andrew
...when you use the spot healing brush it is recoverable but only in that 'session' of edits, once you close, save and reopen an edited image you have no return to the original, unless you have a copy to revert back to...
...edits are easier to perform on layered, psd or tif images if you ever need to revert back to original image data...
Andrew
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