> On May 6, 2020, at 11:10 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Lightroom has tools that make spot removal extremely easy and fast. It's not >> quite as good on scratches as some of the tools in Photoshop, but I rarely >> have scratches to worry about. >> >> The way you do spot and small scratch removal in LR is extremely simple: >> >> - Open the image you want to clean up in the Develop module. >> - Zoom the view to 1:1 >> - Press the Home key on your keyboard >> - Press Q to bring up the Spot Removal Tool >> >> - Set the size of the tool to the smallest that will cover a given spot >> - Set to Clone or Heal depending on what works best for a given situation >> - Click once on every spot you want to clean up > > Something that took me far too long to learn is that you can drag the tool > around with the mouse button held down and adjust the shape of your spot > removal area. I just lucked on that detail. It’s very helpful when the spot > isn’t round. Also, if it picks the wrong area to clone from, you can drag > around the target shape as well. > >> - When done with what's in the view, press the Page Down key and the next >> segment will come into the view. > > There’s also something about shift page down, or something like that. I > think it moves it sideways.
- The H key shows/hides the spot correction destination and source circles. If you toggle the circles to be visible, you can adjust the size of the spot circle and the source used by dragging at the edges of either or in the center of either. (This is part of the standard behavior of the Spot Removal Tool, not specific to the nice features added for dust spotting an entire image/negative scan.) - Click and drag allows you to select a non-circular spot circle, what you need to do to deal with a long scratch. With the circles visible you can drag the source region to other areas; I don't think you can re-size it. (This is part of the standard behavior of the Spot Removal Tool, not specific to the nice features added for dust spotting an entire image/negative scan.) - Shift-Page Down/Up steps the view through the image in a horizontal pattern rather than a vertical pattern. Very useful if you're spotting out a long thin scratch that's larger than can be seen in a single view. I tend to do dust spotting with the circles hidden and only toggle them to visible if the replacement missed the mark so I can adjust the source or size to accommodate the situation better. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
