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ralphlouzon
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March 7, 2024
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P: Restrict healing areas to the cropped areas of the image

  • March 7, 2024
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After a crop, I noticed that the whole picture is used by Lightroom when erasing details (spot removal) in the corners or the edges of a picture.
The result is that quite often there is something of the cropped section in the corrected zone. I guess that taking into account the cropped image and not the whole one would be more efficient...

To make myself clear an example attanched, the crop and the result.
I finally used the healing tool to get a satisfaying result.

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DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 7, 2024

Lightroom Classic is a non destructive editor and never make changes to the original image you are working on it just stores the edit instructions in the catalog file. This also applies the the crop function and allows the edits to be displayed on the screen. If you require an image with your edits finalized you will have to use the export function to do so.

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