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Subject: [Leica] Spot removal tool--LR4
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:44:48 -0700
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I will gladly pay $200 just to get the Content Aware <whatever>. Of course
Adobe wants $$$$ :-P

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, everything is better. Not only LR4, but the noise->dust & scratches
> routine in CS5 & 6 is nothing short of amazing. Simply erasing a long
> scratch pushes the days of the fine point brush, magnifying glass, and
> Spotone so far into the past that one forgets the little bottles are still
> in a drawer someplace. Like electrons, you actually used such a small
> quantity that it seemed endless.
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Richard Man <richard at 
> richardmanphoto.com
> >wrote:
>
> > "H" to show the circles of replacement and things being replaced.
> >
> > For heavy duty spot removal, I use CS5. The healing brush is amazing. LR
> > also slows down a lot with spot removal if your file is large.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't used this tool recently--for sure in LR2, possibly in LR3. In
> > > LR4, they seem to have improved it to where it no longer works worth a
> > > damn. I remember removing two strands of a barbed wire fence that were
> > > between me and a donkey in LR2. It took a while, because it did not
> work
> > > like the PS cloner--it replaced a circular area by the area in some
> other
> > > direction, e.g. at right angles to the wire. So I had to remove the
> wire
> > > one section at a time, which took a while but worked splendidly.
> > >
> > > Yesterday, there was part of a picture frame showing at the top of a
> > shot,
> > > and my wife asked if I could remove it in LR. I said "probably not,"
> but
> > > thinking about it, there seemed to be enough clear wall between it and
> > the
> > > subject of the picture to make removal possible.
> > >
> > > No way! It was a colossal failure. 1. I didn't see the replacement
> pixels
> > > show up as I was dragging the tool; they clearly showed in LR2. 2. I
> had
> > to
> > > wait a number of seconds before I could see what the tool had done. 3.
> A
> > > faint image of some lines of the picture frame remained and could not
> be
> > > removed. 4. The replaced area was darker than the ostensible source
> area.
> > >
> > > Comments? Observations?
> > > --
> > > Herbert Kanner
> > > kanner at acm.org
> > > 650-326-8204
> > >
> > > Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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>
>
> --
> -Lew S.
>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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