![]() Okay, you can see there’s a problem here: Your blemishes are replaced by little icons showing where you used the brush. STEP FIVE: That’s the basic process, so for now, go ahead and remove the rest of the blemishes in this area by moving your cursor over them and just clicking once. You don’t have to “paint” with it just a single click should do it, and as you can see here, the blemish is gone. Move your cursor over the blemish you want to remove (as shown here). You can do this in the Healing tool’s options panel in the right side panels, but it’s easier to use the Left and Right Bracket keys on your keyboard: the Left Bracket () makes it larger. STEP THREE: Size your brush, so it’s just a little larger than the blemish you want to remove. Note that there are a few minor blemishes up here we can remove. STEP TWO: Press Command-+ (PC: Ctrl-+) a few times to zoom in tight on your subject’s forehead (after you zoom in, you can hold the Spacebar and click-drag to move around the image). ![]() Above: This is the new Content-Aware Remove Brush. When that panel appears, where it says “Mode,” click on the first icon (that’s the Content-Aware Remove brush) and, from here on out, it’s the only one we’ll use because the other brush the Heal brush is, well, I don’t want to say it’s trash, but…it’s trash (and that’s being kind). You get to it by clicking on the icon that looks like a bandage up in the toolbar near the top of the right side panels (this bandage used to be the Spot Removal tool, but in the latest version of Lightroom, it’s now called the Healing tool). The tool we’re going to use for removing blemishes is the new Content-Aware Remove brush. STEP ONE: Here’s our original image (KelbyOne members can click here to download this image for practice purposes only). Let’s start with one of the most common portrait retouches, which is removing blemishes and reducing things such as hot spots or moles. I started a new column in Photoshop User magazine a few months back on how to retouch portraits using only Lightroom, and with all the new masking tools and greatly improved “healing brush,” I think there’s a lot more that can be done, retouching-wise, than most users realize, so I want to use this column to open that door and show what can be done, which today is more than ever.
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