Hi Shane

One thing I sometimes do first is to make a selection of the part that I wish to change, and work only in that, so that any slips of the clone stamp won’t affect the protected area. In this case, I might have protected the nose, while working on the spear.

You left the areas where the spear had been looking blurry, although I guess you showed on the lips how to deal with that using the patch tool.

Now here’s a question: All ladies like to look good, don’t they. If you like, you can give a face the full cosmetic treatment and leave it looking as if she had solid makeup all over. But there’s a limit, I think, to how far you should go to remove blemishes, lest the face starts to look unreal. Have you any tips on where to draw the line: what to remove, what to leave, what just to tone down rather than remove entirely?

Philip