Spot Removal: clone does not cover up a blemish

[Gracehoper]

Hello,

can anyone please help me with this? When I try to use Spot Removal (clone) to cover a small pale blemish it replaces the destination (blemish) with the source but without completely covering it. It leaves it as pale as before but with new content. I am new to Spot Removal -- is there something I am doing wrong?

I am using LR5 on Windows 7 Professional SP 1.

[Todd Shaner]

Try using a lower Feather setting and/or Heal mode. If that doesn't work please post a Fit view screenshot of the image with the Spot Removal tool showing.

[Gracehoper]

Thank you for your suggestion.

The problem persists even with less feathering. It seems as though the "brightness" of the pale timber affects the resulting clone (image 1), despite setting opacity to 100. To test that I sampled from the darker foliage into the pale area and it does appear that even the foliage turns paler at the destination (image 2), and even more so when cloned onto the blemish itself (image 3) though this is less marked.

The result is about the same when healing.

So far these behaviours are all happening to raw (.NEF) files. What is most odd is that the tool works fine when I edit a JPG file exported from the raw (image 4).

Image 1 -- editing a raw (.NEF) file

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4 works correctly on a JPG

[Bob Somrak]

The bright spot looks like you used the brush tool with + exposure.  When you clone the area with the spot tool it will also take on the brush adjustment.  Turn on the brush tool and see if there is an adjustment there and if so delete it.

[Gracehoper]

Thanks. Adjustment Brush tool was not set. And setting it at minus did not seem to affect this either .

(Note FWIW that the blemish is due to a drop of rain on the glass.)

[Todd Shaner · Accepted solution]

Bob Somrak is correct. You have an Adjustment Brush or Radial Filter applied to the water spot.  Open the Adjustment Brush and click on Reset at the bottom its panel. Next open the Radial Filter tool and click on its Reset. Now try the Spot Removal tool again.

What appears to be happening is that the Adjustment Brush and Radial Filter adjustments are applied AFTER the Spot Removal tool application. The cloned area has the Adjustment Brush and Radial Filter Applied on TOP instead to the original area BELOW.

I discovered a similar issue with the Transform panel application as described here:

Re: Using Spot removal tool on a straight line LR6

[Gracehoper]

Thank you, that is spot on!

What made me think it was a water artifact was that it recurred in the same place in nearby shots. But that was just due to my sync-ing develop settings.

[donnab76285962]

Spot Removal is not working at all.  I have hit reset, I have verified that the "turned off" switch is turned ON.  Nothing is happening.  My mask to erase steps (or negative mask) is not working either.   Can you help?????  It was working before.