Lightroom Spot Removal - CLONE or HEAL? 

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Good video, as always. One note: '/' is forward slash. '\' is back slash.

I shot a picture of a rock levy at the beach with a father an son standing on it. I really didn't want them in the shot, (I am just learning how lightroom works, also new to photography) and found that the clone worked way better for removing them from the picture. I do however really like how well you explained the difference between the two. Next im really wanting to learn masking. I will give you a thumbs up , thank you.

LOVE the way you duplicated the birds! :)

Excellent tips Anthony. I rarely think to use heal rather than clone but now I understand the difference, that will change. Cheers from DownUnder.

Thank you Anthony. More knowledge for me is always a great welcome. Stay safe.

Hi Anthony. Thanks again for a great video. Let me just add that holding Ctrl (Win)/Cmd (Mac) and clicking the Spot Removal Tool (in Clone mode) duplicates whatever you like much quicker.

It's interesting to hear that you use the clone tool so infrequently.I use the clone tool quite often for removing a branch, part of a leaf, or some similar distraction that appears from the sides of a picture. Using heal in this case leaves a blurred remnant of the color from the object. This also works better for removing telephone poles, ugly street signs, or other items from a nice landscape scene. I'd bet that I use clone and heal about 50-50 in my work. Anyway, I didn't know about the keyboard shortcuts and the backslash trick. Those will be quite helpful. Thanks for another good video.

Anthony, you are an excellent teacher. I benefit greatly from your videos.

Thanks Anthony

Excellent !

As a LR mobile user I often finish my editing in LR then do the healing in Snapseed. The Snapseed healing tool is so much quicker and better than the LR one for many instances.

Thanks, best thing I learned today. Never realized there was a heal mode.

Thank you for this video of the spot removal... I have been using it wrong. Can the thickness of the spot tool circles be made heavier? Sometimes on a bust landscape it's hard to see....

Great Job master.

Another useful video Anthony. However well I think I know Lightroom I nearly always end up learning something new! Two questions. In most all of your videos you magnify the slider box you're working with. How do you do that? Also, with the beach photo, you magnified just the area you were working on. Again, how do you do that?

Thanks for another awesome tutorial. Can you say anything about how the LR and the Photoshop healing tools compare?

I cancelled all things Adobe with exception of Bridge approx. 2 years ago. But I check out some of the tutorials on LR as the instructions apply to On1 and Luminar almost directly.

Good tips, thank you

Thank you for sharing, best explanation i've seen on the matter.

Thanks for your very compact and clear videos! I wonder what kind of spot I've got on a series of my images - it wasn't raining, just a few drops in the air and one apparently got on the lens. When I try to clone or heal it, the spot would not move, it as if remains behind the image, in the background. It's the same with the whole series. Why is that? Thanks!

Some good tips! Thanks

Hi Anthony. There is some that think if a face or image that needs a lot of editing it's best to put it into Photoshop. What are your thoughts?

I NEVER use the removal tool in LR/ACR. 2 reasons: 1) Since the removal tool tends to produce small artifacts, these artifacts can easily be amplified by subsequent editing, especially contrast related editing. So the only really sensible moment to remove unwanted things is at the VERY END - when ALL editing is done and the image is finished in all other aspects. In my case, the latter always involves going to Photoshop after the basic LR/ACR editing. 2) The removal tools in Photoshop are much better than the LR tool anyway.

Thanks . Always do this sort of work in Photoshop because it is way way better .

Is the a reason Adobe doesn't add the content aware functionality of PS to LR? I have a guess... :)

Always enjoy yout informative videos, but question whether you are correctly explaining heal. If heal kept the color from the original spot, then all those acne spots that I remove from portaits of high school students would still be red splotches. Perhaps the tool is using the color adjacent to the healed location, but it is not smply retaining that location color and changing texture. Also, we cloning in an object, instead of all that switcing, it seems like it would be simpler just to first select the location thst you want the copy to appear, then drag the auto selected source spot over the object you want to clone.

Dear Anthony I can no longer find the spot healing brush button. Could it be behind something? He has been there. And lightroom is up to date.

1:14 What kind of sorcery is this?! Thanks for a super-handy tip. 9:02 Excellent tip about hiding the previous spots. That used to frustrate me like (insert a really bad simile here). I liked your cloning demo, Anthony. Is it possible to move an object in Lr? Clone it then clone over the original, in effect moving it? It would be cool to be able to do this without sending an image over to Ps.

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Cleanup the beach before you take the photo. I know it was probably a stock photo. Just saying ;)