The spot healing brush tool is very useful when small dust spots intrude upon your image. You select the tool, adjust the brush size, and click the cursor on the dust spot. The healing brush tool looks for nearby groups of pixels that are similar to those surrounding the offending area and fills in the spot. Sometimes this works extremely well. Other times you might need to try several times to get it right. If you have an area of distraction that is larger than a spot, try to clean it all up at once. If you don't, the healing brush tool may fill in the area with other portions of the distraction. For example, if a power line crosses your image, brush over the entire length of the line before releasing the mouse button.
Suppose you have a photo that has a small area that distracts from the subject. In the photo below, magnified and cropped from a much larger photo for illustration purposes, there is a "Please Stay Outside of the Root Cellar" sign that is distracting:
Use the spot healing brush to paint over the sign:
For small areas of an image, the spot healing brush is often a quick and effective tool.
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