- One of the really useful things
about the spot removal tool is that each spot
or each area that you fix
can have its own custom opacity.
This is very, very useful
when it comes to different things
that you need to fix on a face.
Some things you're going to want to have
full opacity and full coverage,
and other things you're just
going to want to soften a little bit.
So let me show you how we change
the different opacities
between the different fixes.
So here are all the modifications that we've made
using the spot removal tool on this image.
When you see a pinpoint,
it means that I actually drew
in a specific unique shape.
When you see the circle,
it means I just clicked once,
and that's what the difference was.
So that's the difference why you're seeing
two different markings on our image currently.
But every single one of the spot removal tool,
blemish removal actions that we have taken
up into this point has been at 100% opacity,
and you can see that by the opacity slider
being at a 100% for each of these tools.
What if we wanted to just soften something,
right?
What if we didn't want to completely remove it
but we did want to soften it a little bit?
This would be when I would start to use
the custom opacity.
So I'll go ahead and use my right bracket key
to make my radius of my brush
a little bit bigger.
And then I'm going to go ahead,
and increase the feather of the brush as well.
Make it a little bit bigger.
And then I'm going to go ahead,
and paint right under the eye.
Now of course,
we do not want 100% opacity in this area, right?
We just want to soften the area under the eye.
So I'm going to go ahead and drag it
to an optimal location first.
But then what I want to do is actually come
over to my opacity slider,
and decrease the opacity
so that it's just slightly softening the area
over that under eye,
and making it look just a little bit better.
So if we go on and off,
you can see how I was able to soften the look
under that under eye,
and make it look a lot more cohesive,
all you using a custom opacity.
At the end of the day,
each specific spot removal tool that we have done
or that we have created,
could potentially have
its own custom opacity applied to it,
and that's why I love this tool so much
is because you're able to really work powerfully
to get the results that we want
in a much faster time.