Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/18

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Subject: [Leica] Spot removal tool--LR4
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:43:09 -0700

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.