Removing blemishes in Lightroom

Thursday 13 December 2018, 11:14 by Michelle Peeters | 9,679 views | 8 comments

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You don't need to switch to Photoshop to remove a distracting element such as an ugly spot or a piece of dust. You can do this very easily in Lightroom too.

In Develop mode, click the button with the circle and arrow below the histogram in the right-hand column to select the clone and healing brush.

Then select Retouching at the very top. Use the navigator to zoom in sufficiently so you can see it properly. In the panel in the right-hand column, you can set the Size, Feather and Opacity.

Then click once on the distracting object in the photo that you want to remove. Another circle appears, connected to the circle containing the element you want to remove.

This second circle shows where the source pixels are taken from. If this isn't correct, change the position by moving the second circle.

Want to learn more about Lightroom?

Then follow one of Piet van den Eynde's Lightroom courses at Photofacts Academy. The Lightroom Workflow tips & tricks course is a very useful one to start with.

You can follow these courses for two weeks with a free trial membership.

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8 comments

patrick180 wrote on Sunday 10 June 2018 at 10:39 | reply
Nice but I still prefer to do it in Potoshop.

Much better and much neater and more solid.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Sunday 10 June 2018 at 12:14 | reply
@Patrick: I do agree with you on that. But if you have to process thousands of photos, this is a much faster option!
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Elja Trum wrote on Monday 11 June 2018 at 09:31 | reply
Lightroom is fine for most spots. If it's really a complex one, you can always turn to Photoshop. Personally, I only do that for a fraction of my photos these days.
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guest wrote on Monday 11 June 2018 at 10:00 | reply
This is both more complicated and less accurate than in Photoshop.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Monday 11 June 2018 at 10:02 | reply
@gast: I had to get used to it too and some spots (such as shiny spots) don't work for me in Lightroom either. But the standard pimples work fine. And you can indicate very precisely yourself where the source pixels should be taken from. Zooming in is definitely a must!
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Elja Trum wrote on Monday 11 June 2018 at 10:13 | reply
@guest; if you like doing it with Photoshop: totally fine. Everyone has their own way of working.

Personally, I think this works perfectly in Lightroom. Nothing wrong with that. Not complicated (extremely simple, actually) and just good results.
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Mac wrote on Monday 11 June 2018 at 13:25 | reply
it's even ideal if you have a sensor spot. Remove the spot once, and then copy the settings to the other photos. You'll still have to correct a few.
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wiak wrote on Friday 3 August 2018 at 15:32 | reply
There is another method to remove spots and it goes particularly quickly. In LR, click Tools in Develop mode. Then click Remove Spots, which will now show a checkmark. Click on the spot, and two circles will now appear, one of which has an arrow pointing to the spot. The spot has now disappeared. Return to Tools and remove the checkmark for Remove Spots and you're done.
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