Removing Ink Stains from a Photo

Now to tackle the ink spots. Select the clone stamp tool in the toolbox, then go to the options bar and select a soft brush of about 20 pixels, set the mode to "Lighten," opacity 100%, align checked. We are using lighten mode because the spots are darker than the background areas in this photo. If our spots were lighter than the background, then we would set the mode to darken instead of lighten.