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

This slow adjustment performance seems to be true even without brush adjustments, even if to a smaller degree. Overall develop is much slower:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xOT2wv0M8&feature=youtu.be

We Really need Content Aware in LR.  The Spot Removal tool has made great progress since its early days but needs a couple more tweaks.  Right now you can select from "Heal" and "Clone" as the mode for the tool.  WE REALLY NEED YOU TO ADD "CONTENT AWARE" to this list.

In some situations (e.g. removing objects from a structured background) it would be nice to get a mirroring clone stamp (like described here https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/mirror_paint_seamless_tile_paint_function?topic-reply-list[settings][page]=4#topic-reply-list )

Simple situation when I use "spot removal" tool. I work with photo and strong zoom. And only click something small (like removing dust from sensor on picture) to fix it automatically. Some time LR go to similar surface close to my fixed area and get good area to fix it. But many times this tool go to area oudside present zoom settings. In this situation is very tiring allways closing "spot removal" tool, finding area sampled by LR, moving it to _my_ desired area for this sample. And go back to "spot removal" and continue work. Please fix it!

Have two simple ideas to fix this problem: 1 - LR automatically looks for similar/best sample area _only_ in present zoom settings/window area. 2 - Have possibility to go to wrong sample area without leaving "spot removal" tool - simply by shifting working window area by mouse movement. Like in PS using "Retangle tool" :)

Or may be possibility to choose my own configuration between both this settings?

You can fix it?

With all the improvements in LR it's still lacking the content aware brush so it's still in the in the toy class compared to PS for landscaper shooters. Too bad they cater so much to the street and PJs shooters.

Apparently this feature was not considered important.

Let's see again in couple of years, with LR7.

Would like Lightroom to have a good clone brush similar to aperture 3. Aperture 3 is light years ahead in this regard. It truly is a deal breaker for me wanting to switch over to Lightroom. Also Lightroom has too many tap modules. I really wish the Lightroom team would look at this in Aperture 3, much much simpler and useful of an interface. Again way to many tabs in Lightroom.

The idea is simple. Please make Lightroom Spot Removal work as well as Photoshop Content-Aware spot removal. Seriously, the Spot Removal in Lightroom is really not up to par with the rest of the features of Lightroom. It hardly works half the time, picks the wrong area, etc. Please fix this.

Most Photoshop edits could also be made non-destructive for Lightroom (including clone/heal/content-aware brushes). Whether it's practical given:

* Current design of Lr
* Development effort required.
* Performance considerations.
* Current product partition (Lr | Photoshop)

is another matter...

Anyway, I think the new feathering which came in Lr5.2 (if I remember correctly) helped a fair amount, although I'm still hoping for additional improvement..

~R.

You will never see the same functionality in LR than PS. LR is a 150$ piece of software that is not intended for the same audience. I love LR. I do the basic tonality adjustments, cropping etc. then edit in PS (using the edit in function of LR) if needed. This way, a copy gets created and I can see the results in PS. The workflow is pretty straight forward. And you get the best of both.

I stopped trying to do advanced retouching in LR a long time ago and I started enjoying it much more since I learned to do it properly in PS.

@steve The destructive vs non-destructive is not exactly true (or as black and white). Most tools can take the source from a different layer. For example, with the healing brush, you can source from the background layer but apply the new pixels to a new layer on top. This way, you can always revert back. It's simply a different way to achieve the non destructive workflow.

@Paul There is no way you can do advanced stuff otherwise. That's where LR is limited. (to the same features as the Camera Raw in PS). Don't forget that the develop module of LR is just Camera Raw with a new interface.