This tutorial will teach you how to remove blemishes from your images/photos without a problem. This will be useful for correcting your images before you print them.

Removing Blemishes from a Portrait

In this solution, we’ll first remove blemishes from the portrait in the example below

using the Spot Healing Brush Tool. Then we’ll use the Healing Brush Tool to get rid

of the wrinkles underneath the person’s eyes.

Select the Spot Healing Brush Tool (J) from the

toolbox. In the options bar, select a brush size that’s

slightly larger than the blemish you want to remove.

Center the cursor on the blemish and click once.

Photoshop will magically remove the blemish, as

the image at right shows.

For large blemishes, wrinkles, or smudges, we’ll use

the Healing Brush Tool (J). You can find this in the

flyout menu for the Spot Healing Brush Tool (J).

Hold down the Alt key (Option on a Mac), and click in an area that’s similar to the area

that you’re fixing, but has no blemishes or wrinkles. As you can see in the example

below, I’ve sampled the area just below the wrinkles.

Click and drag the mouse to paint over

the wrinkles. This process is pretty similar

to using the Clone Stamp Tool, but with

the Healing Brush Tool, Photoshop takes

into account the difference in lighting and

color to create a smooth surface. The final

result can be seen below.