Spot and Patch tool with grain picture

I have a big problem, most of my picture are with a lot of grain, i used to shot with really high iso.
When i try to use the patch tool, it seem that it work fine only with no grain picture, i tried to move all the slide, but i'm not able to have a really good work, for most of the picture i have to use photoshop to remove all the spot.
Now i found that retouch tool are a lot better then patch, anyone have some idea that can help me? I am trying to use aperture as the only program to work on my picture.
Thanks a lot.
Bressanello Davide

I think if there's a lot of grain you'd have better luck with the clone part of the tool, as it should clone the grain as well. The trick is whether you have anywhere in the photo you can really clone from.

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I don't know if it is not knowing how to use it properly or not, but I have a great deal of trouble with that tool sometimes. I have a difficult time getting a spot/patch to blend properly. For example, if I take out a dust spot, sometimes the patch or spot looks too plain with no noise, so it doesn't blend in properly. I have tried fiddling with the softness and other settings and sometimes it gives an acceptable result(usually an area of constant colour range like blue sky), and other times it just doesn't seem possible to get it to blend in properly?
Is this a limitation of the tool ?

I used it last night for the first time - it works best for removing obvious blemishes - it would take ages to remove lines etc - a lot depends on the source for the patch - has to be virtually identical to the area one wants to amend. I used it to great effect to get rid of a giant dribble from the chin of my 2 y/o daughter - took some pixels from the bid and hey presto dribble gone and hello bib - it would be v useful to get rid of eg stains on a dirty bib (you can see what my main subject is these days) also on a face getting rid of a zit or similar - as for lines I think that is v delicate work and not sure it is suited to that - of course I could be wrong.

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First let me say that I'm thrilled almost completely with Aperture in general. It pretty much solidified my transition to digital from film. I have a long workflow history with scanned slides and photoshop so I am quite used to and adept at spotting and patching my shots with their wonderful healing brush, clone tool, etc. I was excited about the prospects of using aperture for all the minute details that go into a workflow but the one glaring shortcoming is the spot and patch tool. I find the spot tool does a very bad job of using surrounding details to fill in a spot. You get a circular blur that might be accurate color wise but retains no detail. This is very apparent on skin. It's pretty much unusable. And the patch tool is a poor substitute for cloning. No matter what I do I cannot get it to blend in, I always see the circle.
I know what you all are going to say, just shoot it over to photoshop. This is what I've been doing but it really causes the size of your library to grow since you don't get the advantages of the smaller RAW file size.
Maybe in Aperture 2.0? Any one have any thoughts.

I've had very good success with the Spot and Patch tool, but you have to be very careful about the areas you work with. Chad's advice is very good---read the PDF. Note that the PDF says at the very outset under "Spotting Your Images"--"When the area around the blemish is continuous (such as a solid color) and doesn’t contain a distinct texture, you can use the spotting method to obscure the blemish by integrating the pixels that surround it."
In my experience, that advice is critical. Spotting and patching replace pixels with other pixels. Ideally, what you want to do is have Aperture take out an anomolous set of pixels (they don't match their surrounding pixels, hence they create a spot) and replace these pixels with ones that have the same characteristics of the surrounding pixels. So, for example, if the spot is in the middle of a very varied area, Aperture has trouble determining what you want as a replacement for the offending area.
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And it's also worth pointing out that even when the Spot & Patch tool is NOT selected, you can still adjust all of the Spot & Patch parameters on the Adjustments HUD or Panel without seeing the yellow target circles.
I do this all the time, because it's much easier to make these adjustments without the circles visible. With the Spot & Patch tool selected, click on the particular spot that you want to modify. Then press "A" to switch back to the Selection tool (to hide the circles) and then make your adjustments to Opacity, Softness, etc. with an unobstructed view.
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hi,
i have been using the spot/patch tool. i edit my images full screen, select the point to patch, and everything works fine.
then i look at the images in the regular window, or maybe open them later on, and the patch circle is right there where i put it, but no adjustment is there anymore. actually, the adjustment is in the photo, but somewhere else (down an inch, on a side or so on). i do not do anything else than using the tool, selecting the spot, getting the circle and the right adjustment, closing the image.
any ideas on how to stop this. it is making the tool quite unusable, unless i print/save atiff right after (and that does not make sense).
thanks,
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It must only be impacting the thumbnails because when I export a copy out of the photo with a problem the spot and patch adjustments are there whereas when you view it within aperture they aren't. Also at times when you go back to the photo within aperture is shows it's fine but a few minutes later it won't be. The actual file must have the adjustments on it since it exports out fine.
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