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Healing Flaws
Working with family genealogy can be fun, but old photos have their own set of
problems. Imperfections like dust, water spots, rips, or creases can keep you from
enjoying and sharing that treasured wedding shot of Aunt Minnie and Uncle Phil.
New photos sometimes make blemishes or wrinkles seem too obvious, or distracting
detail can take away from the main subject of a picture. Details can come out soft or
fuzzy, because of poor focus or lighting conditions. Photos taken with a flashbulb can
make your subject’s eyes look red or unnatural.
Healing Blemishes, Wrinkles, Dust Spots, Rips, and Creases
Soap 2’s Heal tool fixes small imperfections almost magically. With a click or a stroke of
a brush, the Heal tool covers flaws with pixels “pulled in” from surrounding areas.
(Pixels are the basic drawing unit of computers, sort of like those “dots” that make up a
picture printed on newsprint.) You can even use the Heal tool to perform an instant “face
lift!”
Using the Heal Effect
Small, medium, and large correction controls tells Soap 2 to pull in pixels from close or
farther away from a flaw. The size of the brush you use determines the size of the area
you heal as you paint.
Before and after Heal.
