[Leica] Spot removal tool--LR4

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

"H" to show the circles of replacement and things being replaced.

For heavy duty spot removal, I use CS5. The healing brush is amazing. LR
also slows down a lot with spot removal if your file is large.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I haven't used this tool recently--for sure in LR2, possibly in LR3. In
> LR4, they seem to have improved it to where it no longer works worth a
> damn. I remember removing two strands of a barbed wire fence that were
> between me and a donkey in LR2. It took a while, because it did not work
> like the PS cloner--it replaced a circular area by the area in some other
> direction, e.g. at right angles to the wire. So I had to remove the wire
> one section at a time, which took a while but worked splendidly.
>
> Yesterday, there was part of a picture frame showing at the top of a shot,
> and my wife asked if I could remove it in LR. I said "probably not," but
> thinking about it, there seemed to be enough clear wall between it and the
> subject of the picture to make removal possible.
>
> No way! It was a colossal failure. 1. I didn't see the replacement pixels
> show up as I was dragging the tool; they clearly showed in LR2. 2. I had to
> wait a number of seconds before I could see what the tool had done. 3. A
> faint image of some lines of the picture frame remained and could not be
> removed. 4. The replaced area was darker than the ostensible source area.
>
> Comments? Observations?
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> Herbert Kanner
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