All language subtitles for 76 - Spot Removal Tool

In this lecture, we'll explore this spot
removal tool in Lightroom.

First, we'll need to load
the image that will be working with.

For this exercise,
the image file name is portrait

001. jpg.

I'm going to command
click the BMW collection

to remove that filter
so I can see all my images

in the thumbnail scroller.

Now click on this image here.

Change the magnification
size of this image

to a 1 to 1 ratio in your navigator.

This way we can clearly see
the spots will be removing hold your left

mouse button down and drag the face
so it fills up most of the preview area.

You'll notice that there's
some freckles on the skin over here,

and these are in different areas.

We'll be using the spot removal tool
to remove as many of these as we can.

So let's go ahead and click the spot
removal tool to activate it.

Once you do,

you'll notice a bunch of options
appear in the Adjustments panel.

Before we use the spot removal tool,
it's important to note that sometimes

it can be challenging
to find all the areas

where you'd like to apply the spot
removal.

For example, there might be certain
freckles or other spots

that we can't see clearly with our eye.

If you do run into this type
of situation, place a checkmark

in this checkbox
here in the Visualize spots checkbox.

What this does is Lightroom
converts the image into a black

and white composite, which highlights
most of the spots for you.

If you move this slider left to right,

you can get a higher degree

of contrast
between what Lightroom interprets

as the regular skin tone
versus spots on the skin tone.

To remove this feature,
just go ahead and click the checkbox again

and you'll be back to the original image.

Make sure on your Options panel
that you have

the Heal option selected in Not Clone.

We'll work with Clone in the next lecture.

Now select
a brush size of about 50 to 60 pixels,

and if you'd like to get

a visual of your brush size, just position
your cursor anywhere in the preview area

and you can see exactly how large
the brush is.

Also set the feather setting to 0%
and the opacity to 100%.

Now go ahead and click on
any one of the spots you'd like to remove.

First, I'll go ahead and remove this one.

You'll notice that as soon as I click,
the spot is removed

and two white
circles are left on your image.

The first

white circle encompasses
the spot that we wanted to remove.

This tells us exactly
where the removal has been applied.

The second circle determines which texture

will be used to fill in that spot area.

In this case, we remove the freckle
using part of the skin texture

that has very similar
lighting tone and clarity.

But of course, with no freckle.

Lightroom has also made this replacement
even more accurate

by using its built in algorithm
to match the tones as closely as it can.

If you wanted to use a different part
of the image to fill in the spot,

you can move this second white circle
to any position you'd like.

You do have to be careful
because if you select an area

that does not match the skin texture,

then it's going to reflect in the image,
as you can see here.

Now, if you'd like to expand

or can track the size of

the spot removal perimeter,

hold your leftmost button down

on the outline of the circle
and you can drag up and down

and that will increase or decrease
the size of the area.

You can remove multiple spots

simply by clicking on all the spots
you want to remove.

I'm just going to make my brush size
a little bit smaller.

I find it's a little bit too big.

The key in choosing the right brush size
is you want to make sure it covers

the spot completely with just a little bit
of a margin around the spot.

And I'll put the crosshair
directly on the spot.

Let me zoom in just a bit more
so you can see more clearly.

So I'll go ahead and click
all the areas we want to remove.

And that didn't that time.

It didn't go all that well.

So I'll go to edit Undo

and I'll try that again.

So this time
it chose a different location,

which is what we wanted.

Now you'll notice

that each time we click on
any one of these spots,

we're getting a lot of these white circles
where we've applied this spot removal.

This does help keep track of all the areas
you've adjusted,

but in some cases
you may find them distracting.

So if you do, if you want to remove them,
you can go to the tool overlay menu

and change it from auto
to any of these three options.

Never will remove all of them
and you'll never see them

selected.

Will only show the one
that you're currently working on

and always will

have each one of them
on the screen at all times.

I'll go ahead and change it back to auto
because I don't mind them there.

Now I'm going to zoom back.

LG So we can see the final result.

So as you can see,

Lightroom did a very good job
in removing those spots.

And I'll just go back
to Never one more time

and show you the before and after,

okay?

And we'll see you in the next lecture
where we'll be going over the clone tool.