Using the Spot Healing Brush

Part of Photoshop is the Spot Healing Brush (Keyboard Shortcut "J").  It can be set up to act like the Content Aware function on a smaller scale.  Functions something like a clone tool but easier to use.

Here's an image that I shot recently.  What I didn't notice was that she has a bandage from some immunizations that she just got since she was going away to college.

 

 

In the days before the Spot Healing Brush, I would just use the Clone Tool to remove the bandage.  Now, I just select the Spot Healing Brush, make the size of the brush a little larger than the bandage,

then click on the mouse.  The brush will darken to show you where it's applying the action,

Then voila! No bandage.

This is the final image.  And I used the same Spot Healing Brush to smooth out the sand where the arrows are pointing to.

Before

 

After.

HTH