Tip #73: Spot Removal

Technology has changed the way we edit photos. New improvements to editors have taken some of the pain away. For instance, spot and blemish removal used to require painstaking recoloring at the pixel level. Then, the clone stamp brush was created. With this tool you copied a small region of your photo, near the spot, and you copied the similar region to overlay the spot. Again, this was tedious at best.

Modern editors now have sophisticated improvements that remove spots with a single click. You adjust the size of the brush, click on the spot to be removed, and the tool blends the spot away. When you open your editor, look for retouching tools. For example:

• In Google's Picasa the spot removal tool is called Retouch.


• In Adobe's Photoshop the tool is called Spot Healing


• In Adobe Lightroom the tool is Spot Removal


• In Nikon's Capture NX2 the tool is Auto Retouch Brush

If you care to see sample tutorials, check out www.nikonusa.com or try the Lightroom tutorial.



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