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

+1, this would be awesome

I too find clone/healing/content aware brushes highly important.

This isn't really a question because I know it's not in the current beta version of LR 4 but I sure was hoping Adobe would add it! That's about the only tool in Photoshop that a photographer could REALLY REALLY use because of so many little irritating "eye polluting" objects like telephone wires and poles, signs and little flaws in nature that can ruin a perfectly wonderful shot. I can't afford to buy Photoshop, and this has been one of the best tools Adobe could develop, but it should be where photographers are "living" the most - and that's in Lightroom! If it's not in this version, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add it to the wish list. You would make so many of us very happy and expedite our editing processes when we have to shoot something we know we have to edit because of the eye pollution. I started under the forums for LR4, but was advised to make my comment here. I hope the others that also commented under my "question" follow through. It appears there are MANY photographers that have the same needs and I surely don't want to have to go out and purchase other software like "Inpaint" to compromise my loyalty to Adobe. There must be a way, I know programmers - the challenge is on folks! Appease your customers, please?

• Putting the content aware heal and fill functionality into Lightroom would be the biggest improvement that could be made to the product in my opinion. I really dislike leaving Lightroom to go into Photoshop for that functionality and doing so leaves you with two files.

I am a Software Engineer by day and I am certain the functionality can be added. It may take some extra effort then simply moving code over as one poster pointed out but that extra effort is worth it even if it means we all have to wait for the next release a little longer.

I am looking forward playing with the GPS support. I tag all my stuff and where I don't have camera GPS data or log data I use Google Maps and a third party Lightroom plugin, which gets the job done but is not ideal.

Hmm - Lr4 final, or Lr5?

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.

...and in different images. 😞

I caved and bought PS CS5. Got it with an educational discount, so the price wasn't so bad. Now I have it all, albeit in different places.

"As for the thousands of feature requests, I would imagine that a great deal of them would actually fit the curriculum of current feature sets, and would simply be expanding upon existing code. But something bigger, such as our topic here, seems to be a feature which goes beyond the casual musing (I think ) and demand a bit more attention. "

It's true that many are small things, but many more are not. We tend to get a small handful of large things every cycle, and if you look at the ranking on this forum, there are quite a few big ones being requested, many of which won't make the cut I'm sure. Multi-user data base, raw plugin architecture, more localized adjustments, better handling of keywords, and face detection are all on the first page (of 78 pages) in addition to this one, and note that two of them compete for resources directly with this one. The second page has four more ACR requests.

Plenty to do. I wish we could take the ACR team and clone them a few times. The request in this thread is one of my top ones as well.

"Regarding "limited resources": I do not think that the code for better distraction removal support would be developed by the LR team as such. It would be developed by the ACR coders. I believe that any ACR development would benefit from resources available to Photoshop development and I don't expect any scarcity of resources here. "

Probably true, but the ACR team is by far the smallest of all. It's around four people, as far as I know, and they have plenty to do with new cameras (are we over 200 yet?), new profiles (i.e. Nikon V4), new processing (i.e. PV2010, and so on.