The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

43. USING THE SPOT HEALING AND PATCH TOOLS

IN ANY PHOTOSHOP project you’re going to have to correct some little trouble spots or blemishes. Rather than immortalizing someone’s problem spots in this book, I’m thinking the best thing to do is to use the person who I know has the most problem spots: me (Figure 43.1).

First, we’ll look at the Spot Healing Brush tool, which you can access with the keyboard shortcut J, or by clicking on the toolbar icon that looks like a Band-Aid with a little half circle on top (Figure 43.2). As you can tell by its name, this is a brush-based tool, so all of the different brush commands we’ve talked about will apply ...