I would like to have a free hand selection tool option for the “Spot Removal Tool” in Camera Raw. The way it works now, I need to repeat the tool selection with many circles until I get the entire area I want to clone out of the image. It would also be easier if I could hide the previous circles when I add a new circle.
I take thousands of concert photos shot in raw mode. Up until recently, I would process each photo through Camera Raw and then into Photoshop for additional adjustments and save another version of each photo in Photoshop. With the recent improvements to Camera Raw, I have discovered that I can do all my processing in Camera Raw and have no need to go into Photoshop for adjustments (for 99% of the photos). I now save all that storage space (by not having to store 2 versions of each photo) plus my process is streamlined. I have also further automated Camera Raw with an external keystroke macro program to quickly jump to the different sliders. If I was able to have the free hand tool in Camera Raw, I would replace multiple adjustments using small circle selections with one adjustment using a free hand selection saving much time.
Even though using the “Spot Removal Tool” for a complicated removal is tedious, it is still preferable that going into Photoshop and having to maintain two files for one image. It would be great if I could select the item to be removed easier but if that is not going to happen, then I will continue doing it this way.
If a free hand selection is not feasible, then having a "rectangle" as an alternate selection shape would help in some cases when that shape would be better suited than a circular selection shape.
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