Using The History Brush In PhotoShop
Posted By: Behrad 
Wednesday 14 May 2008 
11 Comments
The history brush is one of my favorite Photoshop brushes. You can use the History Brush to selectively restore color, detail, smoothness, saturation from an earlier point in a picture’s history.
The most popular and my favorite use is to take a color picture, convert it to black & white, then brush the original color back into a particular selection. The artistic effect can be amazing!
Using the history brush is very easy and once you know how to work with it, you’ll use it more often! Just follow the steps and see how easy it is!
1. Take a colour picture like this below.
2. Convert the picture to black & white by Images – Adjust – Desaturate
3. Choose the History Brush from the toolbar or just press Y.
4. Now with the history brush you can paint back the color in the selected areas. Off course you can adjust the brush size and opacity to your need and be as creative as you want! 
Your only limit is your imagination! 
Photo credit: michel01
Thanks a lot for this tute. I’ll give it a go.
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I use PSP rather than Photoshop, but so many of the tools that are in Photoshop are in PSP, too and work the same. I’ll have to see if there is a history brush as this looks like a technique that would be very dramatic for certain photos.
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I have always wanted to figure that out but never could.. awesome..!!
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@ Jenny: No problem! It’s very easy to use the brush!
@ Margaret: I actually can’t remember if I’ve used Paint Shop Pro but I bet that it looks like Photoshop. The effect can be dramatic if you want too.. It can be very cute also!
@ Tazdog: Yeah, Give it a try! You’ll be amazed by the effects!
great tips. i m going to try that
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Ok
Here is my go at it:
http://tinyurl.com/6ybzco
~tazdog
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2 Shaxx:
Cool!!
2 Tazdog:
It’s very nice!
Cool..Now I can put a face behind the name!
Oh, wow….. THAT’s how it works.
!
Thanks a million
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Yep, It’s that easy, Nicole!
For a good photographer like you it can be a very great tool!
Wow, thats a great way to add emphasis to exactly the part of the image you want people to notice. A+
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