Adobe Lightroom For Beginners (2021)

Removing Spots

and Red Eye

Even the latest digital cameras can sometimes get dust inside and

contaminate the sensor, leaving black spots on your images; and

there’s also the problem of flash Red Eye and indoor photography.

Luckily Lightroom offers tools for dealing with these problems.

1

If you scan film photos or use an older DSLR, you may

have problems with dust and blemishes on your images.

Fortunately, Lightroom includes a handy tool to get rid of

them. It’s the Spot Removal tool and you can start using it by

clicking on the icon in the editing tools panel or by using the

keyboard shortcut Q.

3

As you click on dust spots you’ll see the position from

which the replacement sample is being taken displayed

on the image and you can adjust the position and size of the

sample location by dragging on the visible circle. You can turn

this feature off from a pop-up menu on the lower tool bar; this

can help if your image is heavily spotted.

2 The Lightroom Spot Removal tool operates in the same

way as the matching tool in Photoshop. You can adjust the

brush size by using the slider in the control panel or by using

the square brackets keys [ and ]. Simply click on a spot and

it will be replaced by a matching background colour sampled

from elsewhere on the image.

4 If you make a mistake or if you simply don’t like the result

of one of your spot removal operations, you can undo

any of them by holding down the left Alt button and clicking

on the offending circle. As well as the heal function, the Spot

Removal tool also offers a Clone option. If you hold the CTRL

key you can move the sampling point to wherever you want.

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