Best practices for using Heal or Clone tool

Question

Hi folks - I'm new to photo editing.

My biggest challenge right now is effectively removing people or objects from backgrounds. I've tried generative AI remove, heal, and clone. Heal and clone work the best, but it's proved to be impossible in some cases to find the exact shade to replace the area. Even when using heal to remove a cord from a plain white wall, there's a slight difference in the shade of the white from the wall depending on how the sunlight or light hit the wall. Any tips? Am I doing something wrong?

I'm using Lightroom 8.0.

Many thanks!

GoldingD · Answer

Lightroom 8?If correct, very very old Can you in LrC, click on Help, then About, and take a screenshot of that, then paste that in a reply? Actually, I suspect that you do not have LrC, but Lr:The answer to your post can be very different for LrC than for Lr. In fact some would say, for LrC, use PS (as that is the easy way) . But if you have Lr, not LrC, than you probably do not have PS. Now, a better answer than use PS could exist, but the answer should start out with the correct questions, LrC (many year out of date) or Lr (current). I for one do not use Lr so I would have no clue. As for LrC, I have not had that issue, and would need to research (but....) P.S. you may want to include some samples, Some screenshots of what you have, and what you attempt, annotated as to what is what, and perhaps you may want to share your samples via DropBox or another share.

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