PHLEARN – How to Use the Spot Healing Brush Tool in Photoshop

The Spot Healing Brush is the fastest blemish remover in Photoshop: paint over a snowflake, a stray hair, or a pimple and it’s gone, with the tool choosing its own sample point. In this Photoshop Basics lesson, Aaron shows how to work non-destructively with Sample All Layers on a new layer, compares the Content-Aware, Proximity Match, and Create Texture types, explains why to leave the blend mode on Normal, and covers when to switch to the regular Healing Brush instead. Skills You’ll Learn: Setting Up the Spot Healing Brush on a New Layer • Just Paint with the Spot Healing Brush • Type: Content-Aware, Proximity Match, Create Texture • Mode: Keep It on Normal • When a Spot Healing Brush Heal Goes Wrong • Spot Healing Brush vs. Healing Brush