PhotoshopElements

Remove spots and small imperfections

The Spot Healing Brush quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections from your photos. You can either click once on a blemish, or click and drag to smooth away imperfections in an area.

Easily remove spots or imperfections using the Spot Healing Brush tool.

  1. Select the Spot Healing Brush tool .
  2. Choose a brush size. A brush that is slightly larger than the area you want to fix works best so that you can cover the entire area with one click.
  3. Choose a Type option in the options bar.
    Proximity Match
    Uses the pixels around the edge of the selection to find an image area to use as a patch for the selected area. If this option doesn’t provide a satisfactory fix, choose Edit > Undo, and try the Create Texture option.

    Create Texture
    Uses all the pixels in the selection to create a texture in which to fix the area. If the texture doesn’t work, try dragging through the area a second time.
    Note: Click All Layers to apply your change to all layers of the image.

  4. Click the area you want to fix in the image, or click and drag over a larger area.