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June 6, 2019
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Move Spot Removal Points Together

  • June 6, 2019
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I'm curious to know if there is an easy way to select all spot removal points and move them? It doesn't have to be just the spot removal tool, it can apply to other tools, like the adjustment brush for example.

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    Jason s
    Participant
    October 10, 2021

    I was looking for this solution too.  I have series of 8 photos of a family on a bridge, and on the wooden beam behind them has graffiti that I want to remove.  I have spot removed the graffiti on the first image with about 10 different spots/points.  The series of pictures have same focal length and angle so the graffiti will be the same size and shape relative to each other, but each image is composed slightly differently (wasn't tripod shots), so if I copy the spots to the next image all the spot removal points are nearly there but just slightly to the left so they don't work.  If I could somehow move all of the spots at once this would save me some editing time for the next 7 photos. But it doesn't seem possible to copy spots to the next image and then move all the spots together.  Instead, I'll need to re-do the spot removal from scratch for each one OR I can copy/paste all the spots then select and move each target spot along with its source spot slightly in the same direction:( Either way it feels tedious to do this manually instead of just copying spots to each image then moving them all in one step.

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      Mark A. K
      Participant
      April 12, 2024

      I too, would love to have such a feature. Perhaps the UI would be a freehand lasso to grab all the spots removal points then move them. This is extremely useful when you have a group of similar but not exactly the same pphotos, such as you have shown with the picture above. I wonder if Adobe is listening...

      Ester K
      Ester K
      Known Participant
      June 15, 2019

      I have the exact same question and I think it makes perfect sense!!!

      Basically ---- I have many photos of a champagne being popped by a couple. I cleaned up the first shot to perfection, with skin brushing and spot removal of spots on the concrete, and I'm trying to see if there's any way to copy ALL of those settings and get them to line up. The shots do not match perfectly angle-wise, so if I copy spot removal tool and skin softening from one photo to another they do not line up perfectly. I'd like to basically move the whole lot of spot removal spots - select all - drag to the right - if I get the first spot to like up, the rest of the spots should line up as well, and it would save me A TON of time in editing

        JohanElzenga
        Community Expert
        JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 16, 2019

        This is a user-to-user forum. For feature requests, go to https://feedback.photoshop.com. Search for your feature request first. If it is already requested by someone else, then don't create a new thread but add your vote to the existing request.

        -- Johan W. Elzenga
        Just Shoot Me
        Just Shoot Me
        Legend
        June 6, 2019

        Not to my knowledge.

        Why would you want to do something like that? I can't think of a reason to do so.

        solace_media
        solace_mediaAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        June 6, 2019

        Great question! I tried copying spot removal points from one photo to the other and when it pasted they were at the wrong place. I just need to move them so that they can be in the right place, instead of moving each one individually. Does that make sense?

          JohanElzenga
          Community Expert
          JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          June 6, 2019

          paradeshi  wrote

          Great question! I tried copying spot removal points from one photo to the other and when it pasted they were at the wrong place. I just need to move them so that they can be in the right place, instead of moving each one individually. Does that make sense?

          No, it does not, but perhaps you tried this the wrong way. You should not try to copy/paste spot removals, but copy/paste settings (and select only spot removal in the dialog). Or Synchronize the settings.

          What then happens is as follows. The destination spot (the spot that will be removed) will be in the same place. The source spot (the spot where the pixels are taken from) is recalculated for the new image, and that is what does make sense. What is a good source spot in one image, is not necessarily a good source spot in another image.

          -- Johan W. Elzenga
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