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Remove a blemish from a photo
Spot-clean marks and blemishes on skin. Small, round selections on even skin tone give by far the most natural-looking result.
The short version
Spot removal is the one place where working on faces is reliable, because a blemish is small and the skin immediately around it is even in tone. Keep the brush barely larger than the mark. A big selection over a face invites the fill to reshape features rather than just patch a spot.
How to do it
Drop the portrait in and zoom in.
Use a small brush, barely wider than the mark.
Remove, then repeat spot by spot.
Questions
- Why keep the brush small on faces?
- Large selections on a face let the fill invent facial structure, which rarely looks right. Small patches on even skin are the reliable case.
- Will skin texture be preserved?
- Approximately. The patch tends to be slightly smoother than real skin, which is usually invisible at normal size.
- Can it do several spots at once?
- It can, but working one at a time gives better results, because each pass samples freshly cleaned skin around it.
- Is this a beauty filter?
- No. It patches regions you select and nothing else. It does not smooth, reshape or alter anything you have not painted.
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