How do I clean up a dirty drawing using spot heal tool?

I have a scan of a drawing, ink with washes. I need to clean up the smudged paper and old white out. I thouhg spot heal would do the trick. It doesn't do much, Don't know how to adjust the tool to really get it to work. Please help.

Hi there
Here's a quick video that covers how to use the Spot Healing Brush Tool:
If you're still having problems with the Spot Healing Brush Tool, you may want to try using the Healing Brush Tool. This tool allows for more refined spot clean-up, as I will demonstrate below.
The Healing Brush Tool is located below the Spot Healing Brush Tool. Just click and hold on the Spot Healing Brush Tool and select the Healing Brush Tool from the flyout menu.
The Healing Brush works by pulling information from a spot on your image that you choose. So, in your case, you'll want to define your source from a clean area of your paper. Photoshop will use this area to paint over other areas of your image.
So to start, Alt-click (hold down the Alt key on your keyboard as your click) on a clean area of the paper.
Now, simply click and drag over an area of your paper with smudges or imperfections. Photoshop will automatically blend the source area you defined in the previous step with where you are painting over.
As you go along, you'll see a small crosshair following your brush. This is showing you the area that Photoshop is copying from. You may need to redefine your source area as you go along. To do this, just Alt-click on a new area of your image.
You may find that the Healing Brush Tool is much more refined that then Spot Healing Brush Tool! Below is a video that shows you how to use the Spot Healing Brush Tool.
Cheers!
Kendall

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