How to Remove Spots and Objects and Retouch Portraits in Lightroom

Lightroom's spot removal tool with its incorporated advanced healing brush is great for getting rid of spots and some objects, as well as for retouching tasks such as reducing the appearance of wrinkles and softening skin. Watch the two video tutorials that Adobe asked me to make last year on how to use this tool.  In the first video, [...]

2017-06-28T18:19:50-07:00July 31st, 2015|Comments Off on How to Remove Spots and Objects and Retouch Portraits in Lightroom

Touching Up Teeth with Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush and Spot Removal Tool

In this video tutorial I show you how to easily brighten, whiten, and fix flaws in teeth, using Lightroom's adjustment brush and spot removal tool. (This video was made with Lightroom 4 or 5, but is applicable to CC and 6 as well.) For best quality, hit Play, then click on the Youtube sprocket wheel. [...]

2017-07-09T17:36:53-07:00May 27th, 2014|Comments Off on Touching Up Teeth with Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush and Spot Removal Tool

Healing and Cloning on Steroids in Lightroom

Watch my video tutorial below for how to use all of the new features in the Spot Removal tool in the Lightroom 5 beta — including the new advanced healing brush with which you can click and drag to define a non-circular area andwhich is great for both removing objects and doing retouching, and for the [...]

2017-07-09T19:19:03-07:00April 18th, 2013|Comments Off on Healing and Cloning on Steroids in Lightroom

Learn How to Use Lightroom’s Spot Removal Tool, Including a Cool Hidden Feature

As I have written before, I find myself still discovering cool hidden features of Lightroom. This one I picked up from Sean McCormack's new Craft & Vision e-book, Essential Development (which as I wrote in my last post, you should definitely check out). The traditional way to set the size of the spot removal circle is [...]

2017-07-10T11:55:24-07:00October 23rd, 2012|Comments Off on Learn How to Use Lightroom’s Spot Removal Tool, Including a Cool Hidden Feature

Lightroom Video Tip of the Week: Using the Spot Removal Tool to Get Back What You Cropped Out!

Do any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn't straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix [...]

2017-06-28T21:03:58-07:00January 19th, 2012|Comments Off on Lightroom Video Tip of the Week: Using the Spot Removal Tool to Get Back What You Cropped Out!

Putting One Lightroom or Camera Raw Spot Removal Fix On Top of Another

Sometimes I find that for cloning or healing I need to put one Lightroom spot removal fix right on top of another.  If you have used this tool, you know that this isn’t directly possible — putting the cursor over an existing circle just gives you the hand tool to move that circle.   It finally occurred [...]

2017-07-09T12:34:38-07:00July 27th, 2011|Comments Off on Putting One Lightroom or Camera Raw Spot Removal Fix On Top of Another

Lightroom Spot Removal in Heal vs. Clone Mode

You may or may not have noticed that when you are using the spot removal tool, you can work in either Heal or Clone mode.  Let’s take a look at the difference. Here is an image before any work: (c) A. Nowacka First I clicked on the spot removal tool to select it, and then on [...]

2017-09-03T14:57:31-07:00April 22nd, 2010|Comments Off on Lightroom Spot Removal in Heal vs. Clone Mode

More on Spot Removal in Camera Raw

I showed you how to use the spot removal tool in Lightroom and Camera Raw, and how to copy your spot removals from one image to others in Lightroom in my spot removal video. However, I didn't mention how to copy your spot removals from one image to others in Camera Raw. (Thanks, Teri for this [...]

2017-07-09T15:17:11-07:00December 3rd, 2008|Comments Off on More on Spot Removal in Camera Raw

Learn from My Dusty Mistake

In my last post I showed you how to remove spots using the spot removal tool in Lightroom and Camera Raw. After I made the video, it occurred to me that I didn't show you my most horrifying example of dust on the camera sensor. I took this image in 2004 shortly after I got my [...]

2017-07-09T15:18:08-07:00November 26th, 2008|Comments Off on Learn from My Dusty Mistake

Using the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom and Camera Raw

9/2011: Here's an updated video tutorial on how to use the spot removal tool to retouch photos in Lightroom.  I also show how to use it to reduce the appearance of circles under eyes. This is from my Lightroom 3 Fundamentals and Beyond video series, available as a download or DVD.  (Update: My editing skills and audio [...]

2017-07-09T15:21:22-07:00November 25th, 2008|Comments Off on Using the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom and Camera Raw
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