After performing my color edits I decided to remove those blemishes in Adobe Photoshop. I wasn’t sure how obtrusive these specks and lines would be until I imported them to Adobe Lightroom. Unfortunately a bit of dust crept into my camera, causing black spots and lines to appear in any photos that were shot with a high F-stop or long shutter speed. In my most recent photo work I had a great photo op when visiting Northern Michigan for great nature/landscape photography.

Example of Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool in Photoshop If you aren’t sure whether you should be using Proximity Match or the Create Texture feature, Photoshop can make that choice for you by taking colors from nearby pixels when using the Content-Aware Fill. The Create Texture Feature will look at the surrounding pixels and create a texture map to approximate the colors to be used in repairing the affected area. Whether you’re using this feature to remove a pimple or random black spots, it’ll use the tones next to the affected areas as a reference without requiring any additional tweaking on the user’s behalf.

This option reads the pixel data around a blemish and will match it based on the proximity of the sample. There are several modes to achieve your desired effect: Proximity Match Feature

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