The author of this tutorial is Tammy Russotto. She writes that the AKVIS programs make editing so much quicker and easier. It's even more fun. Make sure to practice and in no time you will be zipping through your edits with no problem.
In this case the author wanted to make a portrait to be used to send to family and she decided to remove the tattoos. The model in the image is Tammy's 25 year old daughter, Tiffany.
Please follow these steps:
The selected area will be displayed with a transparent red color.
Choose Auto mode. Using the Keep Area Pencil go just inside the part of the image you want to keep. Then using the Drop Area Pencil outline the area you want to get rid of.
Click on the arrow button to process the image.
If you don't want to add your new background yet or are done click on the checkmark button to save and return to your editing program.
In this tutorial the author has chosen the Artistic Frame in white. The frame width was changed so that it will fit the image.