Tutorial: How to remove spots on multiple photos

Pierre — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:38:36 +0000

Yesterday I posted a tutorial article about how you easily can remove dust spots from your photos. It didn’t take long time before someone asked me how they should do if they have like hundreds of photos with the same pattern of dust-spots. So here comes part two of “how to remove spots with the spot removal tool in Lightroom 2.”

Select one image from your collection of images that has spots
Go to the Develop mode (Press D)
Select the “Spot removal” tool
Choose “Heal” (the other choice is “clone”) as brush type
Resize the brush size to fit your spots
Click on each spot you which to remove
When all spots are gone, select all images you would like to apply this removal on
Press the “sync…”-button (you find it in the bottom of the develop sidebar)
Be sure to activate the checkbox for “Spot removal” and then press “Synchronize”
Done! All selected images have now been “healed” on the same position as your first modified photo.

Note: To see the video in high quality, please use the link below the video.

Tutorial: How to remove spots on multiple photos from Pierre on Vimeo.

Tutorial: Remove unwanted spots in photos…

Pierre — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:13:48 +0000

Lightroom is not like Photoshop but it’s a great tool if you just want to make small retouching of your photos. A perfect use for this is when you want to remove spots or small things in your photos that might disturb the eye. One common thing to do in the digital world is to remove “dust spots”. These spots often become visible if you change lenses on your camera in a non-clean environment. They get trapped in your camera house and after that, all your photos will have the spots on them.

Spot removal

These trapped particles are very small to the eye in a natural environment but in your camera they get blown up when processing your photos. So if you see a repeated pattern of spots in your photos from a vacation etc. you probably have some dust in your camera. Ok, enough talking about the dust now. Let me instead show you how you can remove these spots easily in Lightroom.

Select the photo you want to retouch
Open the develop mode (press D)
Click on the spot removal tool
Change the size of the circle (area) using a scroll-wheel on your mouse or the slider in the control panel. The circle should be just about the size of the spot you wish to remove.
Place your cursor (circle) over the spot you wish to remove and press your mouse.
A new circle with the same size will appear next to your removed spot. This circles (no.2) position has been chosen by Lightroom as the best/recommended choice as clone source. If you’re not satisfied with the clone source you can easily move the circle to a new position. If you need to resize the circle to fit your area, simply place your cursor on it until you see two arrows, then press and drag to resize.
To see the result without the circles disturbing, press the spot removal tool again. If you’re not satisfied with the result, try changing the opacity of your spots or the size of the circles.

I’ve made a quick and dirty screencast to show you how to quickly remove spots in photos. I suggest you click on the link below the movie to be able to see it in high quality.

Tutorial: How to remove spots in photos with Lightroom 2 from Pierre on Vimeo.

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Tutorial: How to remove spots on multiple photos

Tutorial: Remove unwanted spots in photos…