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Lightroom Skills Remove unwanted spots from your treasured images in Lightroom with the help of Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormack
Photographer and writer
Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer based in Galway in the west of Ireland. He’s the author of The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC. seanmcfoto.com
REMOVE unsightly SPOTS from your photographs
Unwanted marks can easily appear in your images – but with Lightroom, it’s simple to make it look like they were never there
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Dust is a pain for photographers, getting in the way of pristine skies. Even just swapping a lens risks getting some wandering pollen or skin cell onto our delicate sensors. When I was in Iceland recently, I found out the hard way just how easy it is to get dust on your sensor. It’s worth learning how to clean your own camera, but if not, you can send it off for cleaning.
That’s great for future shots, but not for the ones already on the computer. Lightroom has had Spot Removal for a long time now, but it’s been super-charged over the last few versions, making it a great tool to remove those annoying dust bunnies from your photo. The tools also work for removing skin blemishes in portraits.
spot removal The handy Spot Removal tool is located in the Toolstrip, under the Histogram in Develop. You can also simply press Q to open it if you need to access it in a hurry. Heal will blend your source
