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09 ENHANCE YOUR PORTRAITS WITH THE SPOT REMOVAL TOOL

hile heavy cloning or sky replacement edits are best saved for Photoshop CC, you can tidy up small blemishes in portraits, or distractions such as a piece of litter or a fence post in a landscape, usingand then clicking Revert to Original. It’s worth zooming in with Ctrl+Plus [PC] or Cmd+Plus [Mac] so you can see the area you’re editing clearly, then hold the Spacebar to drag your way around the image as you touch up any areas.

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