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

LR 5 needs to replace the "dust brush" with the "Content Aware Brush" from CS6 and Elements 11 as a priority item. The implementation now is completely unacceptable. Two areas that are very close tend to run together. Also when one area is fixed it should be cleared so that another fix is not blocked by the first one so the auto-selection is not overlaying the first one.

No argument...

Lr 5 Beta does already prioritize auto-selection of areas close to the painted area (target region). However, if it finds something that it believes will deliver a superior result that is farther away, it will choose that instead.

another detail to the selection of the source (after having tested the LR5 intensively):
I often ose the healing tool in 100% view to get best control of the results. The automatic source selection algorithm very very often selects an area being far out of the zoomed area or even out of the cropped image area. So if you want to refine the source it is very uncomfortable to end up the clone tool, zoom out, undo cropping to find the source, refine the selection of the clone source, zoom in to check, zoom out and finally redo the cropping.
In my eyes it would be better to higher prioritize possible options for source areas near the target area (because of the aspect above and also because of adjacent content often being more similar in color temperature, light, structure...) because final refinement of the source often will have to take place anyway.

Agree, too. Skewing would also help, since it can be used to do a perspective correction between source and destination. With it, it would be possible to use a pattern further away at closer distance and vise versa.

Thanks for the tip Eric. It works very well indeed!

That's neat, thanks Eric.

I would be hesitant just yet. 2/3rds there imo.

You can shift-click to "connect the dots" with straight lines at arbitrary angles. For example, click-and-release the mouse at one position to place a (circle) spot adjustment. Then press Shift and click-and-release at a different position. This will extend the first spot adjustment to the 2nd position. You can continue as many times as you want.

I noticed that when using the "straight line" feature of the new Advanced Healing Brush it seems one can only go in a vertical or horizontal direction. Being able to trace a straight line at an angle would be nice.