How To Use The Healing Tool in Snapseed From Google

Learn how to use the Healing Tool in Snapseed From Google.

The world is a messy imperfect place. There are always minor flaws and blemishes in our mobile photos that distract the viewer's eye. Fortunately, most smartphone pictures can be cleaned up with very little effort using the Healing Tool inside of Snapseed from Google.

Everybody has something that they don’t want captured in their portrait. All humans have minor skin blemishes. We all have pimples, acne, blackheads, freckles, etc. Fortunately, the Snapseed App's Healing Tool makes removing this type of minor skin imperfection easy.

With just a swipe of your finger minor flaws like pimples or zits will magically disappear. The Healing Tool is also a great way to remove dust spots and other small visual distractions from our mobile images.

Snapseed from Google's Healing Tool is a powerful feature but it cannot remove everything. When you use the Healing Tool, Snapseed needs to invent a patch of pixels that it can paste over the blemish.

This patch needs to completely cover the flaw in your image and it needs to blend in well with the surrounding colors and patterns in your image.

The Healing Tool works great when the colors and patterns in patch that it creates are indistinguishable from the area that surrounds your image’s flaw but there are limits to its powers. This tool will fail you when the pattern that surrounds the flaw is too complex or two difficult to recreate.

When faced with a flaw that Snapseed cannot convincingly remove you have a choice. You can either accept that this imperfection is not going away and move on to other tools.

Or you turn to the much more sophisticated, and complicated, pixel repair tools that are available for image cleanup in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop CC.

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