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Subject: [Leica] Spot removal tool--LR4
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:14:11 -0400
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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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>
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> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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-- 
-Lew S.


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