Clone tool not working - but just on specific spot?

[anne mariem60467760]

So I'm editing a shoot and there are two small white spots in the middle of each frame. Assumed I could easily clone them out, but the clone tool isn't working, but just on those two spots (opacity is at 100%). It's the strangest thing - the clone tool works no problem on the rest of the image. Has anyone come across this??

[GoldingD]

And as for changing to healing brush?

[GoldingD]

And how is your feather setting?

[Rob_Cullen]

You mention "in the middle of each frame". Do you mean that the spots appear on every image in the same place?

Do the spots remain in the same location of the photo if you move or zoom the photo?

Thinking that maybe your camera sensor has some faulty pixels.

I experienced the same with only one image (trying to clone away a flower) some time ago (Lightroom 5 ?) but do not remember a fix for Lightroom. I think I had to edit in Photoshop to make the corrections.

Have you tried re-installing Lightroom?

[anne mariem60467760]

Hi and thanks for your reply. Yes the spots stay the same if you zoom in and out of the image, so it is not a monitor issue.

[JohanElzenga]

Can you export the image as DNG and share it via Dropbox?

[anne mariem60467760]

Yes, absolutely, thank you. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Bq3lFy2wsWjUb6IlMcBXbCtr293_6gX7

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

Just like I suggested: these are adjustment brush spots. You either applied them by mistake, or synced them from another image. Select the adjustment brush, hover over the right spot and you will see the pins appear. Select a pin and then press the Delete key. There are two pins very close to each other, each doing more or less the same (adding a +0.29 Exposure correction and +5 Saturation ). Deleting both pins deletes both spots.

[anne mariem60467760]

Bless you Johan! I am so sleep-deprived (baby) that it didn't even occur to me that it could be a sync'ing issue. I really appreciate your help.

[Just Shoot Me]

Might sound silly but Clean your computer monitor. Or try a different monitor.

IMHO those spots are NOT on the images.

The image you included in your first post did you take that with a camera of your computer screen?

I can clone/heal out those spot.

[JohanElzenga]

Do you know where those spots come from? If not, you may have clicked twice with a small adjustment brush that adds an exposure adjustment. Maybe you used that to add catchlights to the eyes in one photo, and then you synced that over all the images? That is something you won't be able to clone out in Lightroom (you have to reset the adjustment brush), but obviously we can clone it out of a screenshot or an exported image.

The best way to check this for us is if you use 'Export as DNG' and then post this file on something like Dropbox so we can have a look at the image with the settings you used.

[Just Shoot Me]

JohanElzenga  wrote

Do you know where those spots come from? I

I just did a test and added 2 adjustment brush marks with Exposure set at +2 then closed and opened the Spot Removal tool set to Clone. Although I could not get rid of the +2 brush circles completely I could make them change.

The OP is suggesting that the Clone and or Heal Spot Removal tool does nothing on those spots.

That is why I said it was a monitor problem.

There is nothing in any of the LR tools that would cause some other tool from working.

[JohanElzenga]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Just+Shoot+Me  wrote

That is why I said it was a monitor problem.

Maybe it is. The only problem is that the image in the first message does not look like a photo taken from a screen at all. It looks like an exported image or a screenshot. An exported image would obviously not contain the effects of a monitor problem, and because a screenshot is a capture of the data as they are sent to the monitor, a screenshot would normally not show a monitor problem either. Let's wait for the OP to come back to us.

[anne mariem60467760]

The image is a JPG exported from the RAW

[JohanElzenga]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Just+Shoot+Me  wrote

JohanElzenga   wrote

Do you know where those spots come from? I

I just did a test and added 2 adjustment brush marks with Exposure set at +2 then closed and opened the Spot Removal tool set to Clone. Although I could not get rid of the +2 brush circles completely I could make them change.

The OP is suggesting that the Clone and or Heal Spot Removal tool does nothing on those spots.

You see them change because you cloned from a darker source area into a lighter destination area, so the cloning changed the underlying image. If you clone from a source area with the same original color and brightness as the destination area, then you should not see any change.