I've done spot healing in my images but want to change lens distortion corrections. Does it matter?

- I originally corrected all the lens distortion in my images with the default Adobe lens profile for the lens, and also done all the spot healing too. However, I now want to change the lens distortion profile to a profile that i've made instead. The Adobe default lens profile and the one that i have made give different distortion corrections (Adobe's is a bit too strong).
- Will all the spots chosen in the spot healing still be mapped correctly? i.e will the source points for the spot healing and the area i'm sampling from still be in the correct positions after adjusting for the new lens distortion?
- Does Lightroom allow for this, or do i have to re-do all the spot healing?

Hey Paul,
Well, you could just try it to find out . But the answer is: Adobe adjusts spots (and paint, and red-eye...) to accomodate lens corrections. It's one of the reasons it is recommended to leave lens corrections until last if your Lightroom is performance challenged, i.e. it takes some horsepower.. (me? I like having lens corrections done up front, despite the performance hit).
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In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with your choice of Spot Healing Brush for this image. I cropped your screenshot to the "BEFORE" image, removed the "BEFORE" type (with the SHB) and scaled to 600% to match your original document.
A dab of a 0% hardness 500 pixel Spot Healing Brush in Ps CS5.1 on OS X 10.6.8 worked perfectly. However, I would have made a vertical stroke with the brush at about 80% hardness and about 200 pixels, which also works for me.
Maybe your SHB is working in "Create Texture" mode despite specifying "Proximity Match" in Options bar. Try resetting the SHB by right-clicking its icon at left of Options bar and picking "Reset Tool" from the menu that appears.

I've done spot healing in my images but want to change lens distortion corrections. Does it matter?

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