Alastair Norcross
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Last weekend I was in a wildlife preserve with mostly birds. By chance, I came across a deer, and managed to grab a few shots before it ran off. Here's one:
As you can see, the backlighting caught quite a few floating particles (dust, grass, or whatever), and there's that plant in the foreground. Yesterday, I saw the thread on this forum about the new features in the remove tool in Lightroom, so I thought I'd see how easy it was to use. I simply imported the JPEG (exported from DXO PL8) into Lightroom, and selected the remove tool, with 'use generative AI' and 'detect objects' selected. Then I selected the plant, and with one click it was gone. Next, I turned off the generative AI and select objects, and used the eraser tool in content-aware erase mode, and just clicked on a bunch of the floating specks. This is the result:
This was under a minute for the plant removal, and maybe another minute for all the spot removals. What used to take much longer in Photoshop (and thus I'd rarely do it) can now be done in two minutes in Lightroom. I'm very impressed. Thanks to Night Pixel for the thread that alerted me to this new functionality.
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“When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.” Jack Handey
Alastair
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As you can see, the backlighting caught quite a few floating particles (dust, grass, or whatever), and there's that plant in the foreground. Yesterday, I saw the thread on this forum about the new features in the remove tool in Lightroom, so I thought I'd see how easy it was to use. I simply imported the JPEG (exported from DXO PL8) into Lightroom, and selected the remove tool, with 'use generative AI' and 'detect objects' selected. Then I selected the plant, and with one click it was gone. Next, I turned off the generative AI and select objects, and used the eraser tool in content-aware erase mode, and just clicked on a bunch of the floating specks. This is the result:
This was under a minute for the plant removal, and maybe another minute for all the spot removals. What used to take much longer in Photoshop (and thus I'd rarely do it) can now be done in two minutes in Lightroom. I'm very impressed. Thanks to Night Pixel for the thread that alerted me to this new functionality.
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“When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.” Jack Handey
Alastair
http://anorcross.smugmug.com
Equipment in profile
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