Comments on: Tutorial: Remove unwanted spots in photos…

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:14:36 +0000

David,
I understand the dilemma and hope the Adobe team will come up with a solution to this soon. Strange they don’t let us save the “Spot removal” setting in a preset. :-/

By: David

David — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:43:19 +0000

Pierre,
Thanks for that. This is fine if I keep an original image around with my spot healing on for each setting (800, 3200 iso for hot pixels, and a dust one) but I really don’t see why LR 2 changed this functionality from being available in presets to not – it’s so much more awkward this way, though I do appreciate your help on this!

I usually apply a preset on import for high iso shots to wipe out my hot pixels but can’t do this any more :(

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:06:37 +0000

David,
I’m glad to be able to help you when I say, it’s possible to achieve this functionality in a different way in LR 2. Apply your spot removals and then select all of your images you want to “heal”. Then use the “Sync…”-button (found when in Develop mode). A dialog is opened, be sure to activate the Spot removal adjustment checkbox.
Cheers!

By: David

David — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:04:06 +0000

Hi, nice post.
Back in the good old days of 1.4.1 one could create a new preset, ‘select all’ and this would save the spot/clone points in the preset [one could then remove all the non-clone data out of the preset editing it in Notepad etc];

2.1 has REMOVED this functionality, annoyingly. For me this makes the heal tool useless – if I’ve 100 shots and just 5 dust spots per image (all in the exact same place) it will take hours to clone them all out. Using a preset it takes 5 seconds for the whole lot.

Any ideas of a work around for 2.1?