P: More Photoshop like clone/healing/content aware brushes

Bouncing back and forth between applications is definitely frustrating, especially when one is under the gun to get a client's project completed. From one perspective, I see it as a total marketing ploy to get people to purchase all the software - greed. From another perspective, there are benefits to each application and a somewhat different purpose for each application. Unfortunately, it's hard for programmers to predict who is going to end up using which program, so it doesn't surprise me they aren't willing or possibly even able to combine or replicate features for every product. So I think of it this way....I anticipate which apps I'm going to need for each photographic project. That way, I don't make myself insane from the frustration and stress. To each his/her own, but unity is the MUCH PREFERREd modus operandi, yes?

My studio is considering a switch from Aperture to Lightroom4, but the lack of a decent cloning tool is the one thing causing me to wince. For spot blemishes, it's fantastic, but it relaly needs to allow softness control and allow me to drag around an area, not just a plop-circle. It's available in Photoshop, which I have, but I just don't want to leave LR and end up with multiple files/versions etc etc.

The only other thing that's giving me pause is the inability to brush in more than the basic enhancements. At the very least, if I could brush in Vibrancy, I think I could get the staff to settle down a bit.

thx.... If anybody is in fact listening...

Lightroom: Better Clone, Healing Tool, Maybe some magic of content aware.

I think the spot removal is way too primitive of lightroom compared to photoshop's capabilities, i think even Lightroom's feature should be upgraded.

For some reason I cannot edit my previous post.

Here's another attempt to provide a link to the object removal video for Cyberlink's PhotoDirector 3.

Your link doesn't work.

Adobe, it need not be perfect. Have a look at CyberLink PhotoDirector 3's object removal support. That'll do fine for a start!

Watch the video on youtube.

Would also like to comment on the need to having more effective brush clone/healing tools in LR4. The current circular brush is too limiting for real world use. Implementing a content aware type tool would help stay inside LR for photo editing (based on Tom's comments of having the photographer stay in LR more often).
There are many of us that do not have the need or interest in owning Photoshop and would therefor, welcome this addition to your final LR4 release.
Thanks for listening.

I want clone/healing/content aware brushes in Camera Raw. I don't use Lightroom.

Excellent. It is the best way to get your Feature Requests heard!

Thanks. Sure did.