Where a disc works on skin
A single spot on an even stretch of cheek, forehead or chin is the best case: the skin around it is a smooth field, and a smooth field is what a fill copies best. Tap the centre of the spot. A numbered tag lands, and the seam shows the frame with and without it.
It smears where skin stops being even — a nostril, a lash line, the edge of a lip, the line of a jaw. A disc filled from its surroundings averages a hard edge into a blur, and the seam shows that before you save. If it happens, remove the fix from the Placed list and leave that one alone.
- A line rather than a spot — a scratch or a stray hair — is a Heal stroke: press 2, then drag along it. Remove a mark from a photo opens with it armed.
- Red pupils from a flash have their own fix: Remove red eye.
- An overall softer look is Smooth skin in a photo, not more taps.
A tap cannot remove a person, a sign or a car. It fills a small disc from what surrounds it, and it refuses when the thing under it carries on past the disc.
Questions about blemishes
- Will it look airbrushed?
- Only where you tap. Each tap rebuilds one small disc from the skin immediately around it and leaves everything else as it was, so pores and texture outside the disc are untouched. If you want the whole face softer, that is a different control: Detail → Smooth on skin tones, with a number you choose.
- There is a cluster of spots. Can it do them all?
- Up to six placed fixes per photograph, and taps cannot overlap ground already fixed. A tight cluster usually fits in one or two discs; a whole patch of them is past what a tap is for, and Detail → Smooth at a low value is the better tool.
- Does it change skin colour?
- No. The disc is filled from the picture around it, so it takes on the colour that is already there. Nothing on this page lightens or tints skin, and nothing is planned to.
- Can it find the blemishes for me?
- No. There is no detector here. You point; the tool fills. That keeps every change a numbered record you placed and can remove.
