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Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools

Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools

- [Instructor] Photoshop has a number of tools that have been developed over time that make it easy to remove small distracting elements in an image. In the next few minutes we're going to take a look at the Healing Brushes, the Remove tool, the Patch, and the Clone Stamp. I'll start with the Spot Healing Brush tool. When I select this tool, you'll notice that it has an option for Content-Aware. I prefer this option because it enables Photoshop to make up information based on the content around the area that you're trying to retouch. If we want to retouch in a flexible manner, I'll enable the Sample all Layers option. And then in the Layers panel, I'll add a new blank layer, and we'll call this Retouch. Then let's zoom into 100%, and I'll use the space bar to navigate to the lower left area of the image. Now, with the Spot Healing Brush, you don't need to do anything besides paint over the distracting element, and…

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