Photoshop: Adjusting Skin

This tutorial reveals how to adjust a person's skin, but the healing brush can be used to repair pretty much anything, such as old broken photos.
All images used in this tutorial are copyright © Stock Exchange.

Step 1

The goal with this tutorial is to remove most of her freckles, as well as adjusting her eyebrows. All of this is done using a nifty tool called the Healing Brush.
Click the example below to view the full image.

Step 2

The healing brush is located in the toolbar, and if you like, simply press J to find it. If another tool is selected as default, just right-click the tiny icon to view the other options.

I strongly suggest that you make a duplicate of your image, considering the fact that the original can get destroyed. Now hold down the ALT key and click on a spot where you would like to clone from.
Second step is to let go of the Alt key and paint over the spot you would like to remove. The cross is the area you're cloning from, and the round circle is where you're painting.

Step 3

To avoid messing up the entire image, pay attention to the detail from where you're cloning, to where it is cloned. You really don't want to clone a dark area, and start painting on a light area. Same goes with the opposite. Pay attention to patterns and the like, and don't be afraid of changing your brush size. The result of failing to paying attention will be obvious: you'll get mismatched areas.

Below is an example of such a mistake. The black circle is where I cloned from, and the red shows where I finally painted. I've found that cloning close to the area that you're editing usually works the best, at least when it comes to skin.

Step 4

After quickly editing the image, the following is my result. Not perfect, but decent enough to show what you can do.