Spot removal /heal function is not working lately in Lightroom Classic.

[Oran5EF3]

Hi, Some how spot removal /heal function is not working lately in Lightroom Classic, is this happening to anyone? 

Thanks,

Oran

[JohanElzenga]

Define "not working". What does (not) happen when you try? Did you check the brush settings, especially Opacity? If the opacity of the brush is (close to) zero, then indeed the brush won't work.

[jbmonco]

I was trying to heal a beige spot and turn it white like the surrounding area. I checked the original placement and where it was picking up from (all white area) and opacity was 100. It acted like the opacity was much lower and never fully got rid of the beige. Tried remove, heal and stamp. Same ressults.

[JohanElzenga]

That is very strange and I cannot reproduce that. The Healing brush may pick up the old background color, but the Clone Stamp should simply replace the spot by what it picks up, and not change anything. So if it picks from the white area, then the spot should become white. Did you try if resetting the preferences works? https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

[John R Ellis]

"was trying to heal a beige spot and turn it white like the surrounding area. I checked the original placement and where it was picking up from (all white area) and opacity was 100. It acted like the opacity was much lower and never fully got rid of the beige."

Try holding down the mouse button and repeatedly brushing over the same spot multiple times, then releasing the mouse button, then using Heal or Clone. Does that help?

LR 13.3 introduced a problem, not acknowledged by Adobe as a bug, where at least sometimes the Clone and Heal brushes are recording far fewer "dabs" internally for brush strokes than in previous versions, resulting in these symptoms:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/clone-tool-produces-worse-results-in-lr...

If this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo, so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail.  Call out exactly what you're trying to heal. We can see if the problem occurs on other installations or is specific to yours, giving more clues as to a workaround and whether to file (or enhance) a bug report.