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Nicole_Rose_Photography
Nicole_Rose_Photography
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June 7, 2024
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Remove tool in Lightroom v 13.3.1 is not working correctly

  • June 7, 2024
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Updated my Lightroom Classic to the newest version 13.3.1 but now encountering issues with the Remove/Heal/Clone tool. Even with the Generative AI and Object Aware features unselected, neither one of the tools can effectively remove a simple water spot in my image. 

Correct answer johnrellis

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@jeanp26144572: "When I press remove my photo turns to black and white in a jumbled mess."

 

Sounds like you accidentally enabled Visualize Spots:

 

 

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Nurul azlifah33841718d1dz
Participant
September 8, 2024

im having the same problem ..

is anyone having the same

priblem

too ?

    jeanp26144572
    jeanp26144572
    Participant
    May 13, 2025

    When I press remove my photo turns to black and white in a jumbled mess.  Never had anything like that before so 

    johnrellis
    johnrellisCorrect answer
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    May 13, 2025

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    @jeanp26144572: "When I press remove my photo turns to black and white in a jumbled mess."

     

    Sounds like you accidentally enabled Visualize Spots:

     

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    June 8, 2024

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    1. In you screen recording, it looks like that you're clicking directly on the water spot but the tool's "target" circle is offset to the side:

     

    Is that what you're seeing?  Or is this an imperfection of the screen recording?

     

    2. And then at the end, I don't even recognize what tool /options caused this display:

     

    Do you know what you clicked to bring that up? The Clone or Heal tool would normally look like this:

     

    Nicole_Rose_Photography
    Nicole_Rose_PhotographyAuthor
    Participant
    June 9, 2024

    I’ve had a spot on my lens since I bought it second hand seven years ago so
    I’ve used the remove and healing tool in Lightroom a seemingly infinite
    amount of time. With either tool you select the area (or spot in this case)
    you need removed. With the healing tool, Lr will select an area similar to
    the ‘problem area’ to heal it away which the user can adjust if needed.
    With the remove tool, Lr selects the fill automatically.
    Both these tools, along with the cloning tool, are not functioning properly
    at all in version 13.3.1. Most of the time using the tool produces zero
    results. But every once in a while it seems to select a fill area that is
    outside of the image entirely.
    In short the tool is completely useless at the moment.
    I attempted to try the Gen AI feature and was successful at removing some
    larger areas in other images but the water spots seemed to be too small in
    size for it to work.
    I had to export the entire workflow to Photoshop to complete my editing 😞
    Nicole
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    Nicole Rose (she/her)

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    June 9, 2024

    But what about my first question?

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