Operation Manual

Spotting Your Images
When the area around the blemish is continuous (such as a solid color) and doesn’t
contain a distinct texture, you can use the spotting method to obscure the blemish by
integrating the pixels that surround it. You fix a blemish by placing the Spot & Patch
target overlay over the blemish in the image and then adjusting the size of the target
overlay so that it just barely covers the blemish. By keeping the target overlay small, you
minimize the chance of a visual aberration in the final image. Aperture provides additional
parameter controls to allow you to adjust the softness, opacity, and amount of detail in
the cloned pixels, so that the corrected area looks as natural as possible.
Before Spot & Patch adjustment
(spotting)
After Spot & Patch adjustment
(spotting)
To spot an image
1 Select an image.
2 It’s a good idea to set the image to appear at full size (100 percent) to prevent image
scaling from obscuring details. To display an image at full size, click the Zoom Viewer
button in the tool strip or the Full Screen view toolbar (or press Z).
3 Choose Spot & Patch from the Adjustments pop-up menu in the Adjustments inspector
or the Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD.
The pointer changes to a target, and the Spot & Patch HUD appears.
4 Click the blemish area to place the Spot & Patch target overlay on it.
486 Chapter 17 Making Image Adjustments