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Clone Stamp vs. Healing Brush: The Decision That Changes How You Retouch Forever
Fifteen years of production work will teach you things no tutorial ever explicitly states. One of them is this: the photographers who retouch slowly are almost never slow because they lack speed. They’re slow because they’re using the wrong tool and compensating with effort. I’ve watched junior retouchers spend forty minutes on a skin cleanup that should take eight, mostly because nobody ever sat them down and explained the actual mechanical difference between two tools that look, on the surface, like they do the same job.