Removing blemishes

One of the easiest ways to make someone look good in a photo is to take a minute…to cover up any blemishes using the Spot Healing Brush Tool in the Expert edit…workspace, which is tailor-made for just that job.…In the Toolbar I'll click on the Spot Healing Brush Tool, making sure in the…Options bar for this tool that I do have the Spot Healing Brush and not the…Healing Brush this time, their icons look very much the same.…So I want that Band-Aid icon with the little dots over it.…I like to do my retouching on a separate layer whenever possible for maximum…editing flexibility.…

So I'm going to start by making a new layer in the Layers Panel, clicking the…Create New Layer button and naming the new layer by double-clicking its default…name. I'll call it heal, and press Enter or Return.…With that new blank layer selected, I'll go down to the Options Bar for the…Spot Healing Brush Tool, and I also want to make sure that Sample All Layers is checked.…If it isn't I'll add a checkmark there.…I'm also going to make sure that the Content Aware button is selected in…