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6. The Tools in the Toolbox / 6.3 Tools for Image Layers

### 6.3.17 The Remove Brush

Like the Copy Brush (chapter 6.3.15) and the Healing Brush (chapter 6.3.16) the Remove Brush is used for deleting unwanted parts of an image. To achieve this it uses a "smart" removal technique: It searches for matching image parts in the neighbourhood and inserts them instead of the original content. This is a random process, so if you are not satisfied with a result, you can use Retry in the Tool Settings, and you might get a better result.

The Remove Brush can work with multiple layers. If you create a new empty layer with transparency above the one you want to correct, you can paint all corrections directly into this new layer. The original image will not be modified.

If you want to remove a large part of an image, it may be better to use the smart removal offered by the lasso tools (see Remove Object in chapter 6.3.4).