From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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How brushing works - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
How brushing works
In this first exercise I want to give you a sense of how brushing works inside of Photoshop. The reason is, all of the tools that we're going to be discussing in this chapter whether we're talking about let's say the Healing Brush or the Dodge tool or any of the tools in this midsection of the toolbox with the exception by the way, of the Gradient tool and the Paint Bucket tool, the rest of them, all rely on what's known as the Photoshop Brush Engine, which means that you're basically brushing in your edits ultimately, which means that you're ultimately brushing in your modifications. The big challenge there is getting credible results, because you never want people to be able to see your brush strokes. You don't want them to see a clear delineation between what you modified and what you didn't modify. So it's very tricky; in order to figure that out especially if you're new to Photoshop, you need to have an understanding of what's going on under the hood where brushing is concerned…
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Brushing to correct56s
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How brushing works4m 52s
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Working with spacing7m 32s
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Changing size and hardness7m 45s
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The heads-up Color Picker7m 17s
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Flipping a mirror image3m 33s
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Setting the source for the History brush3m 42s
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Brightening details with the Dodge tool7m 49s
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Darkening details with the Burn tool3m 5s
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The Sponge tool4m 29s
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Backing off edits8m 4s
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Patching eye bags8m 57s
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Evening out flesh tones7m 23s
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Smoothing away whiskers7m 41s
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Reducing shadow noise7m
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How healing works4m 40s
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The enhanced Spot Healing brush4m 52s
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Using the better Healing brush4m 23s
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Introducing the Clone Source panel3m 49s
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Cloning from one layer to another5m 30s
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Working with multiple sources4m 44s
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