Spot Removal

In Photoshop there is a very handy tool for removing spots in the sky due to dust on the lens or sensor. I have a similar need with a video clip and wonder what is the best approach to spot removal in CS5??

You can see a rather large round dark spot in the right corner of the image. That is easily removed in Photoshop but I haven't a clue where to start with CS5 tools. I haven't had After Effects for several years (didn't upgrade when I moved up from Premiere 6.5 a couple of years ago) so that's not an option for me. If there is a tutorial you can direct me to that might help with this issue please let me know.

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Spot Removal and slow system after a few clicks

Hello All,
I just wanted to bring attention to a very annoying issue. If you use spot removal function a few times in a lightroom session, you end up with the impossibility to use it anymore if you do not exit lightroom and start again from zero.
What I mean is that after a few clicks on spot removal on 2-3 pictures, when you need to use it again on picture number 4, for example, the function is almost unusable (very slow movements that make impossible to put the spot tool in the right place).
If you then exit lightroom and start again everythimg is fine for a while. It seems it is allocating memory each time you use it....anybody having the same problem? Any idea how to solve it? I have been dealing with this since previous versions and it has never ben solved (if it is indeed a bug!).
Thanks all!
Cristiano

Hi Hans,
yes, I guess we'll have to wait...
I have worked with lightroom in the past and then moved to NX2 for a couple of months because I was loving the picture control correspondance with my raw files....then I was so desperate that I moved back to LR. NX2 was too slow and a very bad piece of software for me...altough I will keep an eye to future releases.
I am on a Mac.
Thanks!
Cristiano

I have lightroom 5 but the visualize spot removal tool is not showing up?

I have lightroom 5 and the visualize spot removal tool is not showing up. I have updated the software and restarted my computer and its still not showing up. Why is that?

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LR3 Spot Removal - Can't get it to work

I'm sure this is a SUE (stupid user error). I just started using the image retouching options - spot removal to be specific. (In my defense, I've read instructions, youtubed and googled till I'm blue - I'm pretty software-savvy --- can't figure it out). So, I click on the Spot Remover tool, then click on the target and drag to the spot I want to "heal" from. As long as I'm holding down the mouse button, I can see the intended result. But as soon as I release the mouse button, it reverts to the original blemish. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help.

Opacity: 1. And the button in the lower left corner is on. I saw both of these in another post you did!

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In Lightroom 4, my spot removal and adjustment brush tools will not work on all areas of photos (in particular faces and the center of photos). The cursor seems to show the tool only on the outside portions of the photo. Any suggestions?

I have seen this a couple time and a restart of Lr has always fixed it. It seems like there is some kine of dialog box waiting for input "hidden" behind Lr as it its not there if you minimize Lr. This has been reported many times for a LONG time so it is probably one of the Lr bugs that is not getting fixed. To be fair to Adobe, if someone could reproduce this problem it might get fixed but it seems to be pretty obscure. BTW, I think Ihave seen reports of it in Lr5 also so hopefully it will get fixed in Lr 6

Spot Removal VERY slow in LR CC

Doing my tests and the spot removal is atrociously slow...what gives?

Mark,
There is a known problem with the spot removal tool in LR3.x and Adobe is aware and working on it. No known time frame for a fix since there is no real pattern as to which systems are impacted. You should have plently of resources to run LR3.3 so don't upgrade hardware yet. It have twice the cores and memory and have the same problem. In fact, if you open a RAW image in Adobe Raw via Photoshop CS5, you will probably find that the spot removal tool behaves normally there (just like in LR2.x).
We can only be patient at this time. I did find that by turning off hyper-threading performance did improve a bit with the spot removal tool so if your quad-core has that capability turned on, you might see if you can turn it off in the BIOS.
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I have experienced intermittent problems with exports in Lightroom 5.0 when the Spot Removal (clone and heal) brush is used.
One time, I accidentally pasted develop settings from one image into another image. After I performed an undo on the incorrect edits, the incorrect Spot Removal edits still appeared in my exports.
This doesn't happen every time, so I can't give a specific set of circumstances to recreate the problem.
I am using:
Lightroom 5.0 64-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Canon CR2 RAW files
16GB RAM, plenty of local disk space
Note: I have not done extensive testing on this, but many of these files are stored on a network drive, so I don't know if there is some sort of bug in the optimized routines for network drives/folders.

I have the same problem as michaeln2 and adobe 1230931.
I use Lightroom 4.4.
When I am in the Develop screen and I turn on Soft Proofing, then about 20% of the time the image goes blank. If I go back to Library view and reenter Devleop, sometimes the image will show up, sometimes not. If I advance to other images, sometimes they'll show and sometimes not in the Soft Proofing mode. Sometimes rotating an image in Library mode and going back into Develop "wakes up" the Soft Proofing and sometimes not.
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Spot remover tool / healing brush. How do I get the brush to show up and work??

It seems I can only get the spot remover tool to work on certain photos and in certain areas of said photos . On the one picture I really need this for--where the problem started--I had used it once without much success (it was working then, but I didn't do it right). So I left the picture and worked on another. When I came back to the first picture, I brought up an earlier version of it, before the initial spot removal, to work on. Now I can't get the brush to even show up on the frame, although other tools are working fine. I've checked on other pictures and it seems that many times the spot remover brush won't show up. WhY???

Great. There are other keyboard shortcuts when using this tool like the forward slash key and holding down shift if cloning an area that is a straight line. And don’t forget you can click on the word reset. Take a look at this short video tutorial from Adobe TV.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/lightroom-5-advanced-healing-br ush-and-visualization-tool/

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!
I am very frustrated with Lightroom 3!
tc

Two things to check.

My spot removal circle is only showing up in certain parts of my pictures?

My spot removal circle is only showing up in certain parts of my pictures. It shows up in the corner but when i move it to the center of the picture it disappears. It was working fine a little bit ago. Not sure if I accidentally hit something or what. Help!

Hi jared544,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below should help you with this:
iPod not recognized in My Computer and in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1369
Usually the resolution is updating the Apple Mobile Device Driver. See the section labeled Verify that the USB Drivers are installed > For Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 > Update the Apple Mobile Device Driver.
Cheers,
- Judy

Spot removal workflow

Hi
Just found out the hard way that if you have spot removal to be done, best its done sooner rather than later, specifically when creating snapshots.
I failed to spot remove on one image about 10 spots at the beginning. And thus, upon doing so to one snapshot realised this was not applied to all snapshots.
I had the choice of individually spot removing for all 7 snapshots or copying and pasting that setting to each. Obviously, the later was easier but still a little frustrating to do for 7 snapshots.
Might be nice if, no matter where in your workflow you are, if spot removal is done then this is automatically applied to all snapshots of that image.
Cheers
brad

The idea of snap shots is that you can go back in time to a previous stage that you know is ok. As you are now editing teh image it can only create a new snap shot.

Will Adobe be adding spot removal, adjustment brush and grad filter tools to lightroom mobile?

will adobe be adding spot removal, adjustment brush and grad filter tools to lightroom mobile?will adobe be adding spot removal, adjustment brush and grad filter tools to lightroom mobile?

We don't know (and anybody who knows can't say). It's an unanswerable question...

Spot removal bug in LR 5.3 for Mac??

I have been working on a photo in LR 5 trying to remove dust spots. I can select but they don't go away. Opened in LR 4 and it works fine. Anyone have an idea on how to fix? Thanks.

Check the opacity slider in the spot removal panel. It is probably set to 0. Should be 100.

Spot removal syncronise issue.

I've noticed a bug or lapse in the software.
If you use spot removal, but move the target circle via drag and drop away from the generated area. When syncing the image with other shots it will only sync the generated position and not the drag and dropped position.
Can someone verify this so we can fix it on the next release?
Kind Regards
DWBell

Yes, this is very frustrating. Adobe, please fix this soon.

Spot Removal and Clone Stamp data

I understand that Ver 1.0 includes "non destructive" spot removal, clone stamp etc. How is this data stored? While I understand how image adjustments are stored as metadata in an XMP sidecar or DNG, if this data is simple text, how can changes to image content also be be stored in these files? As a new version of the RAW image data?

> "I hadn't realised that metadata could support such functions".
If you want further thoughts on what metadata could do in future, think of actions in Photoshop.
Imagine that you ran an action as you were editing a file, then instead of saving the changed image, you saved the original image with the action embedded in the file. Then, when you opened the file in future, Ps automatically ran the action. That would be an example of non-destructive order-dependent metadata.
Unfortunately, the restrictions on actions, such as not including brush-use, limits the value of such a method. But it is a way of thinking about this topic. (Note that Lr 1.0 holds the brush size in the clone/heal metadata, while Photoshop can't hold brush-use in actions! In that case, Lr is already ahead of Ps).
A very powerful feature of Ps is the layer mask. Being a greyscale image, it would not fit well into XMP metadata. Perhaps this is an example where Lr will "never" catch up. (Never say never!)
I've seen several people ask for localised editing in Lr. There are various possibilities for making selections for local editing other than using the full power of layer masks. In fact, a number of the standard ways of creating selections appear to have relatively simple parameters. (Standard marquee tools, select color range, etc. Even refine edges). But a Lr with too many of those in would compete strongly with Ps itself! Perhaps this will be driven by what the natural competitors to Lr do in future.

I cannot click on all spots in the spot removal tool

Some spots I can click on (circle cursor in top right):
Some I cannot (can't click on the one the arrow points to near the center):
The circle cursor simply doesnt appear if I am near the center of the photo.
I can drag a path from the perimeter to the spot and get it that way but it seems odd to me. LR5 for Mac. Opacity is 100%,this is not an issue of the effect not correcting the issue, I cannot cause the effect.
I presume I am missing something but cannot determine what it is.

So after some more investigatiion, none of the tools worked outside the center of the image editing window. There was an invisible rectangle in the middle of the window inside which I could not apply tools such as spot removal, red eye removal, graduated filter, etc. Restarting lightroom got rid of it.

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