How to Use the History Brush Tool in Photoshop

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I'll be honest. I'm not a huge fan of the history brush. It promotes destructive editing, and hence laziness. Also, it's a needlessly confusing tool. Especially now that you can start switching around the order of past actions. To those who use it, great - but for the rest of us normals, it's best to keep things simple and not start muddling with the the time stream.
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[@northwestrepair]

My photoshop keeps erasing instead of restoring previously erased parts
Why is that ?

[@reikadoodles]

I've seen digital painters use the history brush to add layer effects to specific brush strokes. You can get a quick atmospheric light with it

[@frozenfiredarknight3764]

does it work if you delete a part or whole of an image?
(like say that you crop out a flower vase but realize that you got rid of a flower. can you get that back with this tool?)

[@2blacksheep858]

Excellent - I wish there more tutes with an element of humour - maybe they would be less laborious :)

[@Connor_Dempsey]

Great. Concise and two the point. Thanks.

[@DoctorStS]

wish someone could make such tut with the history brush on an object with transparent BG (it turns out that doesn't work, so there is no chance to unerase an object with this tool - it throws an error and devs advise to use transparency mask where this useless tool also doesn't work, and even more - the normal eraser still paints over the locked transparent pixels and it doesn't bother nobody. I guess that's because everybody start using alternative programs like Corel where you just rightclick with an eraser to unerase and Ctrl+z for a normal undo)

[@elizabethvillarreal4651]

Thanks a lot! Just straight to the point

[@ThePickledStories]

This was really funny! It's great to laugh a little while trying to learn something. =D

[@akusukamultimedia2050]

Thanks for knowledge

[@SarasDVS]

one good reason for the art brush is to make it have a cartoony effect. I might use it, I don't know.

[@anderzejn]

Thanks for the more undo's tip.

[@jburch5752]

You use the art history brush to create great art painter effects. Adobe has a great tutorial on RUclips with Julieanna Kost.

[@mrboombasticx]

LOL wasn't expecting that.

[@IanMocker]

you can use the art history brush to make your image look terrible 😀

[@luuni1440]

brush deletes things for me

[@shub]

double click on layer in layers palette - turn from background layer (locked) to layer 0. Betting that's your issue. Or, if not that - create a new empty layer first. If that's all gibberish, feel free to look up my 10 minute or 4 hour crash course, and hopefully you'll be set up.

[@serajmehrabkhani7333]

there are all sorts of different options for how u want your image to look terrible. looooooooooooooooool