[Leica] It's all your fault

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Right now I am working on a set of photos from the birth of a baby and 
the gathering of family for it. There are two necessary kinds of 
necessary image editing that I have not figured out how to do in 
Lightroom.

1. Make photos of mother and baby in the delivery room be presentable to 
all who want to see them. I need to cover body parts and remove tattoos 
that normally don't show. I can do these easily in Photoshop in many 
ways. What I want to do here is copy the image of a shawl from a 
pre-birth photo, paste it as a layer onto the after-the-birth photos, 
and adjust it so it looks like a real shawl and not a photoshop layer. 
Tattoo removal was beyond my patching abilities in Lightroom but was 
trivial in Photoshop. Maybe I will in time learn how to do that kind of 
edit in Lightroom, but I haven't figured it out yet. Great-grandma would 
have apoplexy if she saw the tattoos.

2. Make usable group portraits of 13 nervous relatives who were almost 
too anxious to pose. I have 20 shots of a group of 13 adult relatives, 
and in every one of them at least one person's face or posture is 
unacceptable. It was the hallway of a hospital and not a studio, after 
all. It's easy in Photoshop to copy faces or entire people from one 
exposure to another to produce a 13-person composite that is acceptable 
to everyone who appears in it. I don't think this is possible at all in 
Lightroom.