Spot removal or clone tool

It is probably me but I cannot make the clone tool work on several different parts of an image. I want to be able to work on one spot then move on to a totally different spot (although sometimes very close to the previous one) but the tool insist on reopening the previous one. Why can I not do one spot, commit it and then move on elsewhere?

But how do you do it ? Having cloned spot 1,how do you move on to spot 2. Help please.

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  • I can not get my spot removal tool to work at all!!

    I have tried numerous times to get my spot removal tool to work; without success.   I have read tons about it and nothing works.  What is going on?? Neither clone nor heal does anything!
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  • Spot removal tool doesn't work

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  • Spot Removal Tool -- Disappeared!

    While working on some photos, my spot removal tool no longer shows its brush or any previously placed spot removal 'spots' for lack of a better word. If I try to place a new spot removal 'spot', it places it, sure, but I cannot see the ring that outlines the spot nor the area from which the pixels are being selected to 'clone' or 'heal'.
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    I was having similar trouble, but the tool itself would seems to dissappear when I moved the cursor over the image. Hitting the "H" key did not work. I could still see the reference lines, just the tool was not visible. Turns out my tool was set so small it just would not show up on the screen. I ran my scroll wheel up and it suddenly appeared!

  • Spot Removal tool should be an extension of the Adjustment Brush

    I am glad that LR is taking steps in the right direction to improve the Spot Removal tool with the new Healing Brush feature. However, I agree with others that the interface needs improvement. Though I am probably not the first, I feel I have the solution:
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    I think an improved interface for the Spot Removal brush tool (Q) already mostly exists in the in the form of the Adjustment Brush (K), and indeed the two tools should share the best of their respective features and controls. The current Adjustment Brush has most of the features we are looking for in the Healing Brush:
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    Partial erasure of selected brush stroke masks, while maintaining the above brush controls (by holding the ALT key in Windows, aided by making the Mask Overlay visible (O))
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    Post-brushing Feathering control
    Post-brushing repositiong of painted brushstroke (already implemented in the classic Spot Removal tool)
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    In the very center of the diagram is the overlap of all three of the local adjustment tools. In this triple-overlapped zone, there is currently no existing tool. I theorize that there could be a special sort of new local adjustment tool, which combines all of the powers (and none of the weaknesses) of the individual tools of which it is composed. Inspired by the notion of cartoon supeheroes teaming up to combine their powers, I gave it the tongue-in-cheek name "Super Friends Awesomesauce Brush". However, my vision for such a tool is completely serious. Basically, I envision it as an "Advanced Adjustment Brush"
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    Pick up that brushstroke with the mosue and place it in another part of the image.
    Enlarge or reduce the overall size of the brushstroke with the Size slider.
    Increase or decrease the overall feathering of that brushstroke's edges with the Feather slider.
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    Resize that repair shape larger or smaller, and/or change its aspect and rotation as needed. (Transformations to the shape of the target brushstroke, not necessarily transformations of the shape of the healed or cloned sample pixels)
    Increase or decrease the exposure or color temperature of the repair.
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    Subtract from that Radial Filter by erasing with a second erasing Radial Filter at the same pin-level
    Add back to the Radial Filter with a freehand feathered brush as desired
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    Maximise the brush size and minimize the feather setting and paint a solid mask overlay over the entire image.
    Convert the mask overlay to a Clone repair - you have now created a second duplicate layer of the entire image on top of the original (BTW you can already do this step with the Advanced Healing Brush set to Clone and size 100 in LR5 Beta).
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    Make independent exposure, white balance, and sharpening adjustments for both the base image (seen through the Radial Filter subtraction "hole") as well as the cloned top layer.
    Reposition and resize the Radial Filter erasure as needed.
    Add to and/or erase from either the Radial Filter erasure or the cloned top layer with radial filter shapes or freehand brushstrokes as desired.
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  • Spot removal tool target area selection not visible

    When using the LR5 spot removal tool I can perform cloning or healing and LR automatically selects the target used to clone from, but I cannot see where this area is on the image.  A pin should appear with a line connecting the area to be removed and the target area used to clone from.  I see no pin.  Is this controled by a setting?
    Jack

    Great, that works.  Keep on learning.
    thanks

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