Can Lightroom use a true healing brush, or only spot healing?
Asked 7/17/2010
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I use Lightroom’s spot removal tool, but for some fixes I want to paint a healed area freely instead of applying circular spots. Photoshop’s healing brush can do this, but switching back and forth slows my workflow. Does Lightroom have a real healing brush for irregular shapes, or is it limited to spot-based corrections?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
16y ago
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Short Answer: No
Lightroom has a spot healing tool, which will heal a circular area of the image.
Alas, you cannot paint the healing on in an ad-hoc shape. In order to remove a line (like an overhead power line or similar), you have to create a row of circular healing spots.
I long for the day when this changes!
(Note: this is written as of Lightroom 3.0)
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user191
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Lightroom does not have a true paint-on healing brush like Photoshop’s Healing Brush.
What Lightroom offers is the Spot Removal tool, which works in circular areas and has two modes: Clone and Heal. The Heal mode is the closer equivalent to Photoshop-style healing, but it still applies to spots rather than freely painted shapes.
So if you need to remove something long or irregular, such as a power line, in Lightroom you generally have to place multiple small healing spots in a row. For fully brush-shaped healing, Photoshop is still the better tool.
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