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jeffh1302242
jeffh1302242
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July 11, 2020
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Readjusting layers below a Spot Healing Brush layer

  • July 11, 2020
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My workflow is to create a Spot Healing Layer, do my  spot removals (hot pixels, dust spots etc) everything works fine. 

The issue I'm having is when I go back below my spot removal layer and double click the original smart object that I brought in from Lightroom to adjust something like highlights or texture, the new adjustments make the removed spots not look right. It's like the spots are now bleeding through. This happens to any layers below a spot removal layer that I go back and readjust. 

sample all layers is checked. 

What am I doing wrong?  


Thanks!

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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July 11, 2020

Also when you double click on the smarts object layer to work on the object it open in a work document  the healing layers is not in the  work document and the one in the document you open the object from would most likely not bet the correct size for the objects work document.   If you update the object and commit the changes  Photoshop will replace the object you opened with your changer object.  The healing layer in the document may not be appropriate for the replaced object.  Delete the healing layer and create one for the changed object.

JJMack
davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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July 11, 2020

You're not doing anything wrong as such, but neither is Photoshop.

You have your image on one layer and quite rightly, have healed onto a separate layer. Photoshop matches that healing to the original layer. If you alter the original layer below, the healing layer will no longer match.
So you need to make any new adjustments apply to both layers together. To do that you could put them in a group and use adjustment layers and masks on the group or put both in a smart object where you can apply filters etc to the combination.

 

Dave

 

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