The Photoshop Spot Healing Tool

Video Transcript

"A great and handy tool is your spot healing tool. It's a it's a really great tool for your your home pictures, if you need to remove red-eye, blemishes or anything like that. Let me show you how it works. If you come over here you can see I've got the perfect one right here to work on, which is this poor child with Chicken Pox. Now, she seems very happy, even though she has the Chicken Pox. Now what we're going to do is we're going to come over here, and underneath our crop tool here we're going to come down, and you'll see that we have our spot healing brush tool, and the shortcut is J on that. So what we do is we're going to come over here, and bring it over. Now, we can adjust the brush size however big we want it to, and what it's going to do is it's going to take a sample of all the pixels, and try to heal those pixels that are very out, like this big red blotch in the middle here. So, if we just click on it there, you can see it healed it right out of there, by taking let me just go all the way around, and just heal her up, like she never had the Chicken Pox at all. Look at that, oops, the brush skipped on me there. But, as you can see, if you hit a place that doesn't have a problem, it will actually try to heal the problem itself. So, what I'm going to do is hit command Z, and undo that, and come up here, hit that, and just take out all of these bad Chicken Pox, and really brighten this photo up, so we can send this one to Grandma, without Grandma having to look at all these nasty Chicken Pox. And as you can see, this will work on a lot of things, like red eye reduction, and just different other options that you can find to use with it. So, play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."