[Leica] It's all your fault

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 2:50 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

> Right now I am working on a set of photos from the birth of a baby and
> the gathering of family for it. There are two necessary kinds of
> necessary image editing that I have not figured out how to do in
> Lightroom.


LR is a great tool for choosing and keeping up with images.  It is a poor
editing tool unless you?re always satisfied with the camera output.  I?m
never satisfied.



>
> 1. Make photos of mother and baby in the delivery room be presentable to
> all who want to see them. I need to cover body parts and remove tattoos
> that normally don't show. I can do these easily in Photoshop in many
> ways. What I want to do here is copy the image of a shawl from a
> pre-birth photo, paste it as a layer onto the after-the-birth photos,
> and adjust it so it looks like a real shawl and not a photoshop layer.
> Tattoo removal was beyond my patching abilities in Lightroom but was
> trivial in Photoshop. Maybe I will in time learn how to do that kind of
> edit in Lightroom, but I haven't figured it out yet. Great-grandma would
> have apoplexy if she saw the tattoos.
>
> 2. Make usable group portraits of 13 nervous relatives who were almost
> too anxious to pose. I have 20 shots of a group of 13 adult relatives,
> and in every one of them at least one person's face or posture is
> unacceptable. It was the hallway of a hospital and not a studio, after
> all. It's easy in Photoshop to copy faces or entire people from one
> exposure to another to produce a 13-person composite that is acceptable
> to everyone who appears in it. I don't think this is possible at all in
> Lightroom.
>
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