Lightroom Spot Removal Tutorial – Spot remove ANYTHING in Lightroom

hey guys Ryan here at signature edits
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and today I’m going to show you how you
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can easily remove people and objects
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from your photos using the spot removal
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tool in Lightroom let’s do it now for
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all you hands-on learners I’ve made this
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raw image available for download below
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just check the description link and you
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can download this image and edit along
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with me let’s get into it
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all right so today we’re looking at this
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photo of the beautiful coastline the
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only problem is we have a couple of
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tourists who are also looking at this
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beautiful coastline and is awesome and
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lovely as I’m sure they are we don’t
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want them in our photo so how do we get
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rid of them well easy using the spot
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tool in Lightroom now this spot tool
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basically we make a selection click and
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Lightroom is going to automatically
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analyze the image find a similar area
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and replace it with that portion if I go
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to clone it is going to exactly clone
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that area of the image if I go to heal
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is going to try and intentionally and
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intelligently make adjustments between
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this area with a no spot in this area
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which has a spot so as you can see it
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does a pretty good job you’re just going
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to have to play with the feathering the
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finesse and if this area that you select
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doesn’t automatically work you can just
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drag it somewhere else
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and just like that you can see how our
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man is now gone let’s do it again with
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his a beautiful partner an adventure
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here click and just like that Lightroom
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is going to automatically find a place
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and you can see that it’s not quite
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right the hill just isn’t lining up so
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I’m going to drag over here until I find
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something a little bit better there I
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like that BAM and just like that our
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people are removed from our Lightroom
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photo
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and it took about two seconds so when
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does this work this works really great
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in situations like this especially where
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I’ve got this nice textured grass which
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I’m removing from it’s very hard to tell
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the difference between the grass before
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in the grass after because it’s a nice
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textured pattern however if I had an
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area that wasn’t textured it’ll be a lot
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more tricky so for instance if I wanted
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to remove the chimney from this roof
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let’s zoom in and see what we can do I’m
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going to select this area by clicking
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and Lightroom is automatically analyzing
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and you can see that the roofline just
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isn’t lining up I could try perhaps
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substituting it with some roof from here
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but then it’s picking up these clouds as
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well so let’s drag our image over just a
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little bit
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and try
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and of the building drying it into place
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you can see it’s doing an okay job
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we could try hitting clone to see if
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that does a better job and yeah it
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actually seems to be much nicer than
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when it’s trying to automatically heal
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intelligently take our pasady down and
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we can kind of blend the effect go with
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this chimney we want it all the way gone
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perfect just like that we’ve removed the
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chimney let’s try it again and see if we
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can get rid of this bell tower okay I’m
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going to click and oh it looks like this
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is going to be very hard to fit the bell
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tower into my circle well that’s
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actually okay because this is not just a
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spot it’s also a brush if I click and I
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hold it I can draw on the section of the
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image that I want to replace
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and then the Lightroom is going to
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search and try and find similar to fill
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it with so let’s do that again because I
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was pretty sloppy
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make my selection a little smaller here
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right in there just like that
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and you can see that it isn’t doing the
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greatest job we’d have a hard time doing
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this in Lightroom you might be better
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off doing it in Photoshop however if we
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wanted to we can move this selection
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down
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maybe make our feather a little bit
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larger no smaller because we’ve got some
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belltower sneaking in there and move
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around our replacement mask until we
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find something that looks like it’s
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lining up okay
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in this case we might be better off
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using the heal function nope
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so that’s about as close as I’m going to
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get right now at least
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so that is how to replace things and
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remove people from your photos in
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Lightroom very quickly and easily you
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can see that this is a super powerful
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tool let’s say that we wanted to get rid
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of this lovely little radio beacon well
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they’ll probably be easy because in
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behind it it’s just blue sky and then
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we’ve got grass at the base let’s color
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over it
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and bam we don’t even need to adjust
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that just like that we’ve removed that
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from Lightroom
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so this is a super powerful tool super
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fast again you’re going to have to use
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it with mixed results and just
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experiment until you get it right so
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that’s how you remove objects from your
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backgrounds in Lightroom whether it’s
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people or little towers or chimneys I
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hope you can see how powerful this is
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it’s super quick super effective and
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super efficient without having to go
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into Photoshop that saves you a lot of
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time
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all right well please hit that like
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button don’t forget to subscribe and if
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you want to download this practice image
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and have a go for yourself you can find
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it in the link
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