3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 28, 2011 12:40 PM by Joergen Geerds RSS

    spot healing brush tool luminosity not working as expected?

    Joergen Geerds Community Member

      I have a question about the content aware spot healing brush tool:

      The normal and replace mode work just fine as expected... the color mode does indeed a fine job fixing the color cast of i.e. small green or purple lens flares, by picking up the surrounding color.

       

      The next mode after color, called luminosity, should work in the same fashion: it should pick up the surrounding brightness (luminosity), and adjust the relative brightness of the area to be patched (i.e. reduce the brightness of a small lens flare, and preserve the texture underneath).

       

      Instead, luminosity doesn't work much different than the normal mode, it creates a new texture (based on content aware or surrounding area), and thereby destroying the original texture, instead of just fixing the local brightness.

       

      My question for Adobe: is this behavior intentional? or was the luminosity mode "overlooked" by accident?