Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 181)

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Processing and developing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
The Spot Removal brush lets you repair a selected area of a photo with a sample from another area. When removing
spots, you use two connected circles: the spot circle indicates which area to change, and the sample circle determines
which area of the photo is used to clone or heal the spot.
1 Select the Spot Removal brush in the tool strip.
2 Click one of the following in the tool drawer:
Clone Applies the sampled area of the photo to the selected area.
Heal Matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled area to the selected area.
3 (Optional) In the Spot Removal brush drawer, drag the Size slider to increase or decrease the size of the area that the
Spot Removal brush affects. Drag the Opacity slider to the left to add some transparency to the selected area.
4 Move the Spot Removal brush into the photo and click the part of the photo you want to retouch.
Lightroom clones a nearby sample area to the spot that you clicked. An arrow points from the sample circle to the
spot circle, which indicates the selected area that is being cloned or healed.
5 To refine the spot-removal operation, do any of the following:
• To change the sampled area, drag the sample circle.
• To adjust the size of the circles, move the pointer over the edge of the spot circle until it changes to a double-
pointing arrow. Then, drag to make both circles larger or smaller.
• To change the area being cloned or healed, drag inside the spot circle.
• To hide the circles, move the mouse pointer out of the content area. You can also press the H key to hide and show
circles. Hold down H for a few seconds to hide the circles until you release the key.
• To delete a spot, select one of the circles and press Backspace or Delete.
• To cancel the operation, click the Reset button in the Spot Removal options panel. Clicking Reset also removes
all previously created spot circles.
Upright automatic perspective correction | Lightroom 5
About Upright perspective correction
Using an incorrect lens or holding a shaky camera can cause the perspective of photographs to be tilted or skewed.
These types of distortion are particularly evident in photographs that contain vertical lines or geometric shapes.
The new Upright feature provides four modes of automatic perspective correction. After applying an Upright mode,
you can refine the adjustment by manually modifying the slider-based settings.
Note: Apply lens correction profiles for your camera and lens combination before you correct perspective using the Upright
feature. Applying the lens correction profile first results in better image analysis for upright correction.
Using Upright modes to correct lens distortion
1 In the Develop module, navigate to the Lens Corrections panel.
2 (Optional) In the Basic tab, select the Enable Profile Corrections checkbox.