Removing distracting background elements

Now that we know a little bit about the Spot Removal tool, let's take a look…at removing a blemish, which is a little bit more complicated …to get rid of with this portrait.…One of the things that's distracting me is that there is this little background…element that I didn't notice when I was capturing this picture, so I want to get…rid of that, let's go ahead and double- click the Zoom tool to go to 100% then…press the Spacebar key to click-and-drag, so that we can focus in on this little…blemish right here, next, press the B key to select the Spot Removal tool.…

One of the things that you know that you can do is you can click-and-drag …over the blemish to create that sample area.…Typically you want to have your cursor right over the center of the blemish and…then click-and-drag out.…Now in doing that one of the problems is, is that it's covering a little bit of the sweater.…So as I make these different selections you can see it's kind of bleeding …in on the sweater edge here.…Well, here I'll go ahead and click-and- drag this up to try to have it cover a…