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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"
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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).

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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