


In our testing, the Healing Brush produced superb, undetectable results every time.įor larger areas, you can use the Patch tool, which performs the same function as the Healing Brush, but works on large or irregularly-shaped areas. What formerly was a painstaking operation now becomes so simple that a five-year-old could do it. Photoshop will swap the area you first clicked with the problem area, then adjust the color, so that it perfectly blends in with the surrounding area. Immediately after that, click on the problem area you’re trying to correct. Place the curser on a different part of your boss’s face, one that’s free of blemishes and has the correct texture, then option-click or alt-click that spot. To fix them, open the photo in Photoshop and select the Healing Brush.

Imagine that you need to post an image of your boss, but you know he’ll hate the picture, because his face is full of blemishes and shiny patches. Found in the toolbox (marked with a slightly cutesy icon showing an adhesive bandage), the Healing Brush seems to be reading your mind, the way it seamlessly removes blemishes from photos in one easy step. While Photoshop 7.0 has scores of improvements, the one that it will be best known for is the Healing Brush. Here are some of the tools that Adobe have added and enhanced to make your day a little easier.

The new features in Photoshop are all about making your life easier and your work time more productive. There are tools that make formerly complex operations remarkably simple, make organizing resources and working in teams easier, and let users test their creativity in new ways. The new version, 7.0, provides some excellent tools that should make developers smile. Long the default graphics-creation application, Photoshop has stayed ahead of competing apps by meeting the changing needs of designers and never settling for good enough. It’s almost a holiday for graphic and Web designers, the day a new version of Adobe Photoshop comes out.
