Retouch and repair photos

Select Remove tool from the group. 

Use the Size field in the options bar to choose your brush size. The brush size should be slightly larger than the area you want to fix if you want to cover the entire area with one stroke.

(Optional) Select the Pressure for Size button to allow for using the pressure of Stylus to change brush size.

(Optional) Turn on Sample All Layers in the options bar to sample data from all visible layers. 

(Optional) Turn off Remove after each stroke to allow for multiple strokes of the brush before applying the fill. Use multiple strokes for large or complicated areas. Keep Remove after each stroke to apply the fill as soon as you complete a single stroke.

Drag the brush over any area you want to remove. If Remove after each stroke is off, you'll need to hit Apply in the options bar to make the magic happen.

Select the Remove tool from the toolbar.

Select Agree or Cancel on the Firefly Terms of Use that appear.

The Mode setting in the Remove Tool is set based on the Terms of Use acceptance and chooses from the best technology to fill each area.

Manually change the Mode setting in the options bar as needed:

• Auto (May use generative AI)
• Always use generative AI
• Never use generative AI

Use the Remove Tool as usual, and it will choose from the best technology to fill each area.

Brush the perimeter of the area you want removed. The endpoints don't need to be fully connected.

Any content under the brush and within the loop will be removed. This interaction will refine the area based on object detection.

Mouse/Pen-up, or select the apply (checkmark) button in the options bar if multi-stroke is enabled.

Notice the overlay area fills in automatically.

Uncheck the Remove after each stroke option in the Tool Options Bar so that you're in multiple stroke mode.

Make a brush stroke to identify an area for removal.

Select the subtraction mode (–) button in the tool options bar to change the tool mode.

Brush again on the image to subtract some parts from the highlighted area.

Continue to switch between the (+) and (–) modes as necessary and brush to refine the area to be removed.

Hit the apply checkmark once you’re finished refining or the Enter key to initiate the removal of all items in the highlighted area.

Select the Spot Healing Brush tool   from the toolbox. If necessary, select the Healing Brush tool  , Patch tool  , or Red Eye tool   to show the hidden tools and make your selection.

(Optional) Choose a blending mode from the Mode menu in the options bar. Select Replace to preserve noise, film grain, and texture at the edges of the brush stroke when using a soft‑edge brush.

Choose a Type option in the options bar:

• Proximity Match: Uses pixels around the edge of the selection to find an area to use as a patch.
• Create Texture: Uses pixels in the selection to create a texture. If the texture doesn’t work, try dragging through the area a second time.
• Content-Aware: Compares nearby image content to seamlessly fill the selection, realistically maintaining key details such as shadows and object edges.

Select Sample All Layers in the options bar to sample data from all visible layers. Deselect Sample All Layers to sample only from the active layer.

Select the Healing Brush tool  .

• Mode: Specifies the blending mode. Select Replace to preserve noise, film grain, and texture at the edges of the brush stroke when using a soft‑edge brush.
• Source: Specifies the source to use for repairing pixels. Sampled to use pixels from the current image or Pattern to use pixels from a pattern. If you chose Pattern, select a pattern from the Pattern pop‑up panel.
• Aligned: Samples pixels continuously, without losing the current sampling point, even if you release the mouse button. Deselect Aligned to continue to use the sampled pixels from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting.
• Sample: Samples data from the layers you specify. To sample from the active layer and visible layers below it, choose Current And Below. To sample only from the active layer, choose Current Layer. To sample from all visible layers, choose All Layers. To sample from all visible layers except adjustment layers, choose All Layers and use the Ignore Adjustment Layers icon to the right of the Sample pop‑up menu.
• Diffusion: Controls how quickly the pasted region adapts to the surrounding image. Select a lower value for images with grain or fine details or a higher value for smooth images

Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer over an area of the image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (macOS).

(Optional) In the Clone Source panel, click a clone source button  and set an additional sampling point.

You can set up to five different sampling sources. The Clone Source panel remembers the sampled sources until you close the document you’re editing.

(Optional) In the Clone Source panel, use a clone source button to select the sampled source you want.

(Optional) Do any of the following in the Clone Source panel:

• To scale or rotate the source that you’re cloning, enter a value for W (width), H (height), or the rotation in degrees .

Or, 

• To show an overlay of the source that you’re cloning, select Show Overlay and specify the overlay options.

The sampled pixels are melded with the existing pixels each time you release the mouse button.

Select the Clone Stamp tool  .

• Aligned: Samples pixels continuously, without losing the current sampling point, even if you release the mouse button. Deselect Aligned to continue to use the sampled pixels from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting.
• Sample: Samples data from the layers you specify. To sample from the active layer and visible layers below it, choose Current And Below. To sample only from the active layer, choose Current Layer. To sample from all visible layers, choose All Layers. To sample from all visible layers except adjustment layers, choose All Layers and click the Ignore Adjustment Layers icon to the right of the Sample pop‑up menu.

Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer in any open image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (macOS).

(Optional) In the Clone Source panel, select a clone source button  and set an additional sampling point.

You can set up to five different sampling sources. The Clone Source panel saves the sampled sources until you close the document.

(Optional) Do any of the following in the Clone Source panel:

• To scale or rotate the source that you’re cloning, enter a value for W (width), H (height), or the rotation in degrees .

Or,

• To reverse the direction of the source (good for mirroring features like eyes), click the Flip Horizontal  or Flip Vertical  buttons.

Or,

• To show an overlay of the source that you’re cloning, select Show Overlay and specify the overlay options.

To clone video or animation frames, open the Animation panel (if you’re not cloning video or animation frames, skip to step 2). Select the timeline animation option and move the current-time indicator to the frame with the source you want to sample.

To set the sampling point, select the Clone Stamp tool and Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (macOS) in any open document window.

(Optional) To set another sampling point, select a different Clone Source button  in the Clone Source panel.

You can change the sampling source for a Clone Source button by setting a different sampling point.

• To scale the sample source, enter a percentage value for W (width) or H (height) or scrub W or H. The default is to constrain proportions. To adjust the dimensions independently or restore the constrain option, click the Maintain Aspect Ratio button .

• To rotate the sample source, enter a degree value or scrub the Rotate The Clone Source icon .

• To reset the sample source to its original size and orientation, click the Reset Transform button .

• To hide the overlay while you apply the paint strokes, select Auto Hide.

• To clip the overlay to the brush size, enable the Clipped option.

• To set the opacity of the overlay, enter a percentage value in the Opacity text box.

• To set the appearance of the overlay, choose either the Normal, Darken, Lighten, or Difference blending mode from the pop‑up menu at the bottom of the Clone Source panel.

• To invert the colors in the overlay, select Invert.

Select the Patch tool  .

• Drag in the image to select the area you want to repair and select Source in the options bar.

Or,

• Drag in the image to select the area from which you want to sample and select Destination in the options bar.

• Shift-drag in the image to add to the existing selection.
• Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (macOS) in the image to subtract from the existing selection.
• Alt+Shift-drag (Windows) or Option+Shift-drag (macOS) in the image to select an area intersected by the existing selection.

To extract texture with a transparent background from the sampled area, select Transparent. Deselect this option if you want to fully replace the target area with the sampled area.

To control how quickly the pasted region adapts to the surrounding image, adjust the Diffusion slider. Select a lower value for images with grain or fine details, or a higher value for smooth images.

• If Source is selected in the options bar, drag the selection border to the area from which you want to sample. When you release the mouse button, the originally selected area is patched with the sampled pixels.
• If Destination is selected in the options bar, drag the selection border to the area you want to patch. When you release the mouse button, the newly selected area is patched with the sampled pixels.

Select the Patch tool  .

If desired, complete steps 3-4 (from Repair an area using sampled pixels) to adjust the selection and apply pattern texture with a transparent background.

Select a pattern from the Pattern panel in the options bar and select Use Pattern.

In RGB Color mode, select the Red Eye tool  . (The Red Eye tool is in the same group as the Spot Healing Brush tool  . Hold down a tool to display additional tools in the group.)

Click in the red eye. If you're not satisfied with the result, undo the correction, set one or more of the following options in the options bar, and select the red eye again:

• Pupil Size: Increases or decreases the area affected by the Red Eye tool.
• Darken Amount: Sets the darkness of the correction.