Do you use the Touch-up brush and for what?
In the manual it looks like the healing brush, but the reality is that it does - blurs. Is this an idea of the developers, or it simply does not work like Hue/Saturation/Lightness and some other tools?
Dmitry said:In the manual it looks like the healing brush, but the reality is that it does - blurs
Basically I think of it as a portable Median tool. I think it was intended to work like PS healing brush, but PS's tool is better IMO.
Hi Dmitry,
I tried another tool on the image you linked us to. I had a go using Image>Correction>Dust & Scratch. Right at the top is the original scratch and below it the final result of using the Dust & Scratch Removal feature. At the bottom is the result of using this feature on a small section of the scratch in a fairly plain area.
As you can see, it is not good enough to fix the whole image and is especially poor around busy areas of an image. It worked quite well in less detailed areas, especially the sky. This tool is really aimed at smaller dust and scratches usually found in scanned images and works very well on those. It also is great for removing power lines in images as long as the background is fairly plain. If you use a combination of Dust & Scratch Removal, Retouch Brush and Cloning you will be able to get a great result and save some time in the process.
You can read mind, Brian. :)I compared work results of this tools. The problem is that not one of the tools available in Photo-Paint not trying to preserve texture, just blurs. They can only be used to remove small defects, so the only tool for retouching images in Photo-Paint is Clone Tool. :(
Well, we have definitely established that large feature removal in Photo-Paint is basically non-existent from an automated point of view, especially compared to Photoshop's Healing Brush. PSP's Healing Brush, or whatever it is called there, is also very very good. I think it may be more equivalent to PS's Spot Healing Brush and equally as effective. Come on Corel, add this ultra-important feature to your "professional" editing program!
After Dmitry showing his one minute fix in PS I just had to try a one minute fix in Photo-Paint. Here it is:
This was done by RAPID cloning with a transparency of 96%, over and over again. I then used a part of the image as a texture map and placed that over the fixed area, converted the object to greyscale, applied high pass sharpening and changed the merge mode to overlay. Reasonable for 1 min, but not good enough!
I then tried more like a 5 min fix in Photo-Paint (starting from scratch again) and came up with this:
I can't even begin to tell you what I did here....I used that many techniques in the space of 5 mins I even confused myself! LOL
Very very good result, Brian. :) Looks so healthy. :)