- If Lightroom is making some strange choices
on where it's pulling the information from
to make your fix,
let me show you how to guide Lightroom to make
some better choices
when it comes to your reference area.
So I have my spot removal tool active
from our last chapter,
and I do have just a couple areas
on the skin that I would like to clean up.
But what happens if for example,
Lightroom uses kind of the wrong area
to make your fix?
What do you do then?
Well, there is a few options
of how you can actually change
the reference point.
The first is going to be using
your forward slash button on your keyboard,
which we'll continuously toggle
between different selection points
that Lightroom thinks that you should use
in order to make a good selection.
So it actually bounces it around for you.
The other though,
is to manually actually do this.
And so you can go ahead,
and just click and drag on that point,
which is going to help create
a realistic heal for you.
And you can actually put it anywhere
that you would like when it comes to blemishes,
because if you are in control,
you are able to really create quite good results.
But to be perfectly honest,
Lightroom does a really good job
on its own of finding an area
even along a area of a ridge,
just like that,
you can see the difference
between before and after.
I mean, you can't see them at all.
And so what Lightroom has done
is it's actually looked
for an area around those
that's going to mimic the underlying.
So these tools are getting smarter and smarter,
and are giving us better and better results.
So I'm just doing a little bit of image cleanup
getting rid of those blemishes.
And if I need to,
in the off chance that Lightroom
doesn't give me the best result,
I can go ahead and manually drag it
or I can go ahead,
and just use my forward slash key
on my keyboard to find a better result.
Let's go ahead and zoom out,
and see the work that we've been able to do.
Hitting H on our keyboard is going to hide
all of our reference points.
And then if we just use a little light switch
right here in the spot removal tool window,
you can see the before and the after,
and you can preview the removal
of the spots and the blemishes.