Today I’ve got a quick Photoshop tutorial to help you zap zits and clean up your photos!

If you follow me on Instagram you may have noticed I posted the same photo that I used in this week’s Blog Love, but there were two small differences between the photos.

You’ll notice the orange cone and whatever that pink thing is are missing from the second photo because I felt they were distracting in a larger photo. And that edit took me all of 30 seconds!

The healing brush tool allows you to paint with sampled pixels. In order to use this brush, hover over a nearby area that is clear of what you want to cover. Hold down the Option / Alt key and click in the clear area to sample. Then release the Option / Alt key and click the area you want to cover.

For large areas that look fairly uniform, you can use a bigger brush—this is what I did for the sand. For something like skin that has lots of different pigments, I would use a small brush and take swatches from different areas nearby. If you hit Control / right click you’ll be able to adjust the size, hardness and spacing to help you get a better sample.

You can also use the Spot Healing Brush Tool, which doesn’t require you to choose a sample yourself, it automatically samples pixels from the surrounding area.

Easy peasy!

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