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Tone down distracting features in Lightroom

Tone down distracting features in Lightroom

From the course: Retouching and Color Correcting Photography Portraits

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Tone down distracting features in Lightroom

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- [Instructor] One of my favorite Lightroom tools is the healing brush in the Develop module. It has two modes. Heal blends the pixels of the source area with those of the target area. Clone copies the pixels of the source area and pastes them on top of the target area. Which one I use depends on the image and what I want to fix. I love this woman's expression, but the lighting makes the mole distracting. I could get rid of it, but then her family and friends would notice. So instead I'll tone it down. Activate the healing brush and make sure it's in heal mode. Adjust the size to be slightly larger than the mole, and set the feathering to medium. Click on the area. Lightroom automatically picks a source area it thinks is good. Sometimes it's not. Press the forward slash for another option or just pull the source pin to a better place. Now the mole is totally gone. But I want to still see it a little, so I adjust…

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