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                <div><div class="section"><p>The
Spot Healing Brush tool quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections in
your photos. The Spot Healing Brush works similarly to the Healing
Brush: it paints with sampled pixels from an image or pattern and
matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the
sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. Unlike the Healing Brush,
the Spot Healing Brush doesn’t require you to specify a sample spot.
The Spot Healing Brush automatically samples from around the retouched
area. </p>
<div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="tr_06" src="images/tr_06.png" /><div class="figdesc">Using the Spot Healing Brush to remove a blemish</div><br /></div><div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />If you need to retouch a large area or need more
control over the source sampling, you can use the Healing Brush
instead of the Spot Healing Brush.</div></div>
<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the Spot Healing Brush tool&#160;<img src="images/P_HealSpot_Lg_N.png" /> from
the toolbox. If necessary, click either the Healing Brush tool,
Patch tool, or Red Eye tool to show the hidden tools and make your
selection.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose a brush size in the options bar. A brush that
is slightly larger than the area you want to fix works best so that
you can cover the entire area with one click.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>(Optional) Choose a blending mode from the Mode menu
in the options bar. Choose Replace to preserve noise, film grain,
and texture at the edges of the brush stroke when using a soft‑edge
brush. </span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose a Type option in the options bar:</span> <dl><dt class="dlterm">Proximity Match</dt>
<dd>Uses the pixels around the edge of the selection to find
an image area to use as a patch for the selected area. If this option
doesn’t provide a satisfactory fix, undo the fix and try the Create
Texture option.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Create Texture</dt>
<dd>Uses all the pixels in the selection to create a texture
with which to fix the area. If the texture doesn’t work, try dragging
through the area a second time.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Select Sample All Layers in the options bar to sample
data from all visible layers. Deselect Sample All Layers to sample
only from the active layer.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click the area you want to fix, or click and drag to
smooth over imperfections in a larger area.</span></li>
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