Up next, we will take a look at the Spot Healing Brush Tool. With this tool, we simply need to draw over an item that we want to remove and Photopea will look at the surrounding area and use that to cover the item. This tool will work great with our current image, especially on areas where a person is surrounded by concrete. Let's get some practice.

1. Click the Spot Healing Brush Tool...
   
2. In the Spot Healing Brush Tool options bar, click the brush options drop down arrow...
   
3. In the brush options window, set the following options...
   
   This will give us a nice sized brush to work with and make sure that the edges of what we are painting will be nice and smooth
4. Press Esc to remove the brush options window
5. Zoom in on the area indicated below...
   
6. Locate the person indicated below...
   
7. With the cursor, click and drag to paint over the person - Photopea will darken the area as you draw to let you know exactly what you are drawing over, as shown below...
   
   When you release the mouse button, you should notice that the person is gone...
   

A word of warning: the process does not work very well when there are lots of other objects nearby or if the item being removed is near an edge. For example, if we try to remove the person below with the Spot Healing Brush...

We end up with this...

See how the light gray area now has a bite taken out of it? While it is easy for us as people looking at the image to see that the light gray area is actually a corner, Photopea has simply identified that there is a lot of dark gray around what we are trying to remove and is using that dark gray color to fill in the area. Use the Spot Healing Brush Tool carefully. It can be an amazing tool for quickly and easily removing objects, but if the object is not by itself, alone in the open, it can distort the surrounding area and be more of a problem than a help.

8. Go around the image and remove any people that are out in the open by themselves that would be easy to remove using this tool - do not try to remove anyone that is close to other people, close to buildings, near lines, or anything else like that

If you try to remove a person or object and you end up with some sort of distortion, simply undo your action and move on. We will deal with crowds, people near buildings and lines, and anything else that the Spot Healing Brush Tool is unable to remove in the next few Steps. Keep in mind that there is a way to remove and/or replace everything in an image, it's just a matter of using the right tool.

9. Click File and then click Save as PSD...
10. Save the image in the Remove Objects folder as remove.psd

In Step 4, we will switch from the Spot Healing Brush Tool to the Healing Brush Tool. They sound similar, and do actually work in much the same way, but there is a very distinct difference. Click the link to Step 4 below.