Operation Manual

The yellow Spot & Patch target overlay is placed over the blemish, and the blemish
disappears.
Click a blemish to place
a Spot & Patch target
overlay on it.
Note: You can always adjust the size of the target overlay and other parameters. For more
information, see Adjusting the Size of Spot & Patch Target Overlays.
5 Repeat step 4 until all of the blemishes in your image are removed.
Patching Your Images
When you need to clone pixels from a different area of an image to fix the area where
the blemish is, you use the “patching” method. Patching is similar to spotting, except
that there are some additional steps. You first place a Spot & Patch target overlay (yellow)
over the blemish, and then you place a source target overlay (white) over the area you
want to clone. The pixels in the Spot & Patch target overlay are replaced by the pixels
copied from the source target overlay. Aperture provides additional parameter controls
to allow you to adjust the size of target overlays and the softness, opacity, and amount
of detail in cloned pixels, so that the patched area looks as natural as possible.
Before Spot & Patch adjustment
(patching)
After Spot & Patch adjustment
(patching)
487Chapter 17 Making Image Adjustments