Spot removal Photoshop Tutorial, Easy to understand photoshop tutorial for removing spots and blemishes in your digital photographs.

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Photoshop Tutorial for removing unwanted spots, blemishes, Wrinkles, freckles...

Removing spots and blemishes - Remove unwanted spots and blemishes from your photographs to produce perfectly stunning portraits by following our easy photoshop tutorials.



The below tutorial is a retouching technique to help you remove unsightly and unwanted spots and blemishes from digital portraits using adobe photoshop. You might refer to this as a digital chemical peel. We all have photographs of ourselves, family or friends that aren't quite perfect because of spots, marks or blemishes on the skin such as pimples, birth marks, scratches, wrinkles, freckles ect... The good news is that we now have a tutorial to teach you how to make them imperfections disappear leaving you with stunning professional portraits.

In this tutorial we have used a photograph of my son Joshua, holding his pet blue tongue lizard, Bindi. If you put your mouse cursor over the image you will see it change to the original image before correcting any spots or blemishes.

There are two ways of removing spots and blemishes using adobe photoshop. The first is by using the "spot healing brush tool" and the second by using the "healing brush tool"

Method 1 - Spot Healing Brush Tool

In this first part of the tutorial we will be using the (spot healing brush tool) in adobe photoshop to remove unwanted spots and blemishes. This is the easiest and quickest way of doing this.

Step 1:
First, open your image in adobe photoshop. Click and hold down the mouse button on the (healing brush tool) as seen below, then choose (spot healing brush tool).

Tools palette

Step 2:
You then need to adjust the size of the brush big enough to encompass the area of the spot or blemish. Click on the arrow shown below next to (brush 19), or simply change where it says 19px to a smaller number if you need a smaller brush size or a larger number if you need a larger brush size.

Now left click on each spot or blemish and watch them disappear.

Method 2 - Healing Brush Tool

There is a little more to removing spots and blemishes by using this method to the above method.

Step 1:
With your image open, select the (healing brush tool) from the tools palette. It may be set to (spot healing) so be sure to click and hold the icon shown in the image below then select (healing brush tool).

Step 2:
To use the healing brush press (ALT) on your keyboard and click an unblemished area of skin. Adjust the brush size as mentioned in the above method to encompass the spot or blemish. Simply click on each spot or blemish and watch them disappear.


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Thank you for putting this tutorial up, it really helped :)

 

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