Remove Spots and/or Specks?

Click on the Spot Removal tool (B) up in the toolbar, size your brush so it’s a little bit larger than the speck or spot you want to remove (as seen in the inset above), and just click once. The tool will sample a nearby area to use as a source for the removal (see the green circle above? That’s where it’s sampling from). If for any reason the fix looks odd (it picked a bad spot to sample from, which definitely happens from time to time), you can just click-and-drag that green circle—the one it’s sampling from—to a different location to get better results. Also, you can click-and-drag the green circle to resize it, and you can click-and-drag the red circle (the one where you clicked) if you were a little off when you first clicked over the spot you want to fix.

TIP: GET CAMERA RAW TO RESAMPLE AUTOMATICALLY

You just learned that if you use the Spot Removal tool and you don’t like the results (maybe it sampled the repair from a bad area), you can click-and-drag that green (sampled) circle to a new spot. But, you can also have Camera Raw do that for you automatically. Just press the / (forward slash) key on your keyboard and Camera Raw will automatically pick a different area to sample from (moving the sample circle for you). Keep pressing it until it looks good to you.