Using Photoshop To Remove Spots from an Image

Adobe Photoshop can be a super useful tool to edit photos, if you have the knowledge correctly. We all have those digital family photos where someone you don’t know is in the background, your mother has some sort of food on her shirt, or you just have that pesky ex-partner that makes the photo a sore memory. Removing a figurative eye sore from a photo can be easy!

When removing a small blemish from a photo, you simply want to select your spot healing brush tool, located below the eyedrop tool in the toolbar on the left side of the screen. This tool uses the surrounding area to basically “Paint” over the spot with the same pattern and color as the area.

Once your tool is selected, you want to change the size and hardness of the brush. To do this, mouse over the second option on the taskbar. That will then give you a drop down menu that will let you click and drag to the size you want your brush. Adjusting the hardness of the brush is super important to create that smooth transition around the image.

The process is the same for large objects as well, though they are more difficult to get rid of than smaller ones. Larger objects are also more time consuming to remove.