Spot healing tool technique

[Stuart M]

A question for those of you that are clued up on using the spot healing tool. I appreciate that each circumstance is different but, generally speaking, if I wanted to erase a long thin thing such as a power line that stretches all the way across an image, would it be best to try and do the whole thing in one go or do short sections at a time depending on what's showing behind each area? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[mattyg]

 

[Paulmag]

Just try it if it doesn't work step back or delete and try another way.

A single patch is sometimes best but if its to big that it cannot find another area to take from then try smaller

 

[Pookeyhead]

Are you referring to Photoshop?

If so... the normal healing tool is best, as you can decide where to sample from.

 

[Stuart M]

Elements 10 is what I'm currently using.

 

[Barryboy]

I prefer to make selections from close to the area that has to be healed and do something like the removal of a telephone line removal in multiple steps . That way the software picks up very similar tones to the tones required for output. I'm not sure I've explained that very well but I hope you get my drift.

Rob