By In Adobe Photoshop CS6, you can use the History Brush tool to apply an image area from a different state or snapshot to your current state. Use this tool to restore a portion of an image to an earlier state, while leaving the rest of the modified image alone.
The History Brush has an advantage over the Eraser tool because the History Brush allows access to many blend modes. In the History panel, click in the far-left column of the state or snapshot that you want to use as the source for the History Brush tool. A brush icon appears in the column, indicating that Photoshop will use this state as the source for the History Brush tool.
Select the History Brush tool in the Tools panel. You can also press Y to select the tool. On the Options bar, select any other brush options that you want to use — such as Brush size and type, Mode, Opacity and Flow percentages, and Airbrush. Select your desired layer in the Layers panel and, in the History panel, select the state that you want to paint back to. Drag with the History Brush tool to paint over the portion of the image you want to restore.
Photoshop paints over the image in the layer with the image from the state you specified as the source in Step 1. The original faces are painted by using a 10-15% Opacity setting over the Water Paper filtered image. Sometimes, Photoshop won’t let you go back. You may see a No symbol (a slashed circle) when you try to use the Eraser with the Erase to History option, the History Brush tool, or the Fill with History command.
Your current image must be the same file size (have the same number of pixels) as the state you’re trying to go back to. Such actions as cropping, trimming, using the Image Size or Canvas Size commands, or rotating any amount other than 180 degrees can prevent you from going back to a previous state. However, if you happen to have a square image, you can still use the Eraser with the Erase to History option if you rotate that image in 90-degree increments.
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Join John Derry, one of the world's top experts in natural-media digital painting, as he teaches how to quickly get up to speed painting with the new brush enhancements and capabilities in Adobe Photoshop CS6, such as the Mixer Brush tool presets. These features expand the ability of Photoshop to mimic the real world with new erodible tips and airbrushes. The lessons cover adding textures to brushes, working with erodible dry media, and introduces particulate airbrushes and the Brush Projection feature.
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This course serves as a concise guide to what's new in Photoshop CS6 for digital painting. This course was created and produced by John Derry.
We are honored to host his tutorials in the lynda.com library. Instructor. John Derry is a pioneer of digital painting and one of the original authors of Corel Painter.
Since 1985, he has leveraged his background in drawing and painting to advance the look and experience of traditional art-making tools on the computer. John has a master's degree in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, is a practicing artist and photographer, and has two U.S. Patents relating to expressive digital mark-making.
Adobe recently designated John as a Photoshop Painting Pioneer. He teaches digital painting workshops and holds a Photographic Craftsman degree from Professional Photographers of America. John can be found online. Related courses. By: John Derry Course. 4h 15s. By: John Derry Course.
5h 28m 22s. Course Transcript - Voiceover Hi, I'm John Derry and I'd like to welcome you to Photoshop CS6 New Features, Brushes.
I'll show you how to get the most out of these natural media tools, so that you can apply them to your own work. I'll introduce you to the mixer brush cloning paint setup action and the associated cloner tool presets that enable you to treat (mumbling) symmetry, a photograph for example, like wet oil paint. I'll also provide optional content to extend the cloning paint actions functionality. Now, let's get started with Photoshop CS6 New Features, Brushes. Practice while you learn with exercise files.