Above: The upper circle (the one with the white arrow pointing at it) is where the part I wanted to

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This a quick little tip, but it’s sure a handy one. If you’re using the Spot Removal tool to remove a spot or a blemish and the results look kind of funky, it’s probably because the tool didn’t pick a similar enough area (text, tone and/or content wise) to give you a good fix. Take a look at the image below.
Above: The upper circle (the one with the white arrow pointing at it) is where the part I wanted to remove is located, but look at the lower circle where it sampled from. A fairly lame choice, and of course the fix doesn’t look realistic. Of course, I can grab the top circle and try to find a better location for the tool to sample from, but that’s where this tip comes in handy you can have Lightroom do it for you:
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Awesome…. I’ve been dragging that sucker all over the place ever since they introduced dos equis it. HOWEVER… I have noticed it samples more effectively if the lens correction is turned off. I now do all my spot removal BEFORE applying lens correction and it is a lot quicker & more accurate. Maybe I just need to invest in a faster computer!
December 11, 2014
Thanks Scott, I learned something useful. dos equis Alas, I’m using a non-US keyboard and using the ‘/’ key (which requires Shift to be held down) doesn’t work. It works however with the ‘/’ on the numeric keyboard. Post a Reply
Robin Horton
Scott, you make my life so much easier. Great tip. And thanks Paul C on the suggestion not to do the lens correction first. I have some of my basic tasks in a preset(saves a lot of time not having to go through all the menus), but will do this after the spot removal Post a Reply
This is another example of the annoying issue that Lightroom has with trying to use standard keyboard shortcuts on foreign character keyboards. Some popular shortcuts, like “\”, or “/”, and many others don t work. I wished Lightroom finally has a keyboard shortcut re-mapper , just like Photoshop does. Post a Reply
Also, if you’re in a photo where you can just tell LR isn’t going to get lucky, there’s a quicker alternative. Instead of click, select source circle, drag source circle to new location, there’s this: click and immediately drag and release. The initial click is what gets covered up, and the place you release is the source you’re pulling dos equis from. Much easier than hunting around and repositioning dos equis an existing circle. Post a Reply
I already knew this one Scott I have one to share however. If you’re in the Develop module and you need to quickly find a preset for your brushes you can begin to type the name of your preset after clicking the dropdown dos equis and it will highlight it. A simple tap of spacebar or enter once the one you want is highlighted will select it and apply it to the currently selected tool. Post a Reply
The / key tip is particularly handy if you do your cropping before your spot removal because although you may not see the area outside of the crop on screen, as far as LR is concerned the entire image is still there and usable for sample areas. In those cases you can’t move the replacement spot manually because it’s literally off the screen! Can be frustrating.
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