History Brush to retouch hair

[lfbb]

Hello all,

This is my first post at the forum, so greetings to all!

I'm a beginner on Photoshop(CS6) so I hope I can learn a lot with all users!

In the video bellow the author describes a way to change the background of an image using Quick Selection+Refine Edge+History Brush, the last one to retouch the hair. Well, I tried his History Brush technic in another image but I can't get it to work. He says the History Brush does not bring the original background altogheter. Has someone already tryed this tutorial? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, so any help is much appreciated!

I'm having problems posting links to YouTube videos. To see the video go to YouTube and search for "Photoshop Disaster: Hot Hair Mess!". The reference is "lh6QSb0qMtc"

Thank you!

 

[dv8_fx]

Bear in mind that using the history brush on an edited part of an image will revert that part to it's original saved state or predetermined position in the history palette.

Why didn't it work? It may be because there was nothing done in the image yet (newly opened) or part of the image for the brush to base what to restore.

 

[lfbb]

I don't know why it didn't work, maybe I did something wrong.

The video author says the History Brush won't retrieve backgrounds, is that true?

Thanks

 

[dv8_fx]

I didn't have a chance to see the tutorial so I have no idea what are the conditions of the edits on image in the tute. And I don't quite get what the author is trying to convey.

Unless I'm wrong with what he means, if you edited the image in any way, saved, closed , opened the file and edited some more, the history brush won't be able to retrieve the original untouched state of the background. It will retrieve the pixel data of the LAYER in the psd file when you first opened it.

The history brush won't work on a new layer because there is no data associated with that layer in the last save.







In the example, layers 2 and 3 are duplicates of the background layer which where transformed smaller and rotated . I saved, closed and reopened the file. rotated layer 3 some more and used the history brush. It was replaced with contents from what I started with when I opened the saved file.

It's not deleting the layer contents to reveal or retrieve the background layer. It replaces the layer contents with the original contents of the layer as it appeared in the very first image state in the history (image file when opened).



I hope you understand what I'm saying here...LOL.





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[lfbb]

I understand, thanks for your answer!