- So one of the first things
that I always do when retouching an image
is remove the blemishes
because they can be distracting,
and they can take the viewer's eye
away from the face in the photograph.
So for that,
we're going to use the spot removal tool,
and I'm going to show you a lot of tips and tricks
all about that tool right now.
So here is our spot removal tool
that some of us may be very familiar with.
It's right there.
It hasn't gone anywhere.
Thankfully, we are not worried about it
disappearing on us.
And a quick way to activate the spot removal tool
is to hit Q on your keyboard,
which is going to activate the tool.
So if we come on in here and zoom in,
you can see that we have a few options
within the spot removal tool,
and that's going to be one is to clone,
and one is to heal.
So some may be asking,
"Well, what's the difference
between clone and heal?"
So let me give you guys a little bit
of a visual example
of what the difference is.
So I'm going to go ahead,
and just click once on the eye.
And then I'm going to come over here,
and I'm going to make the reference
or sample point right over the eye.
And then I'm going to choose clone
from my options here.
Clone and heel.
Now, what all I'm going to do
is I'm going to do the exact same thing.
Go ahead and reference the exact same eye,
but instead head of clone,
I'm going to put it onto heal mode.
And so if we go ahead and zoom in,
you can see that there's some differences
in these two areas.
So the first is our clone,
and that takes the color and the texture
from where we sampled.
Right?
Which is the eye, that's where we sampled.
And it places it where you painted.
Now, when we change the blending option
from clone to heel,
you can see that the texture
is still being referenced
from our original sample point,
but you can start to see
that the color is trying to blend in
with the surrounding area below where we painted.
And so that's why sometimes when you're using
the heal option,
it tends to blend in the local area
a little bit better
because it's trying to make that blend
much more seamless for you.
If you're looking for a very easy way
to switch between the two options
that we have here,
you can hold shift and T,
and that's going to toggle
between the two different modes that you have
under your spot removal tool.