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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 18, 2021, 07:16:30 am

Title: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 18, 2021, 07:16:30 am: Lightroom Classic 10.3 (the latest)

Healing brush most of the time delivering strange, unusable results:
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: krseals on July 18, 2021, 08:10:17 pm: Not seeing that here on Win 10 and LrC 10.3.

Have you tried a preferences reset?
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Simon J.A. Simpson on July 19, 2021, 06:55:00 am: Weird.

The Lightroom healing brush normally grabs its repair from an area it considers similar. Slobodan, have you tried moving the source to another part of the image ?

Although the healing brush in Lightroom is quite good I find that Photoshop's often works more consistently and better.
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 19, 2021, 07:09:44 am: Quote from: Simon J.A. Simpson on July 19, 2021, 06:55:00 am
... Slobodan, have you tried moving the source to another part of the image ?

Of course. It is even worse.

I solved the problem with this particular image by doing it in LR Mobile, on my phone, would you believe!

I tried other images, same problem.
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 19, 2021, 07:25:20 am: Another example, where LR selected the area:
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 19, 2021, 07:27:50 am: And even if I select the area, right next to it, still doesn't work:
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Simon J.A. Simpson on July 19, 2021, 07:44:57 am: I've got version 9.4 of Lightroom.

I just tried healing a piece of lightly textured wall and saw the same thing. Then I realised I had 'Clone' selected rather than 'Heal'. Once I changed the repair to Heal the hard edge disappeared and it merged perfectly.

Slobodan, I wonder if your Lightroom has got its selection of Clone or Heal mixed-up or the preferences file has become corrupt ?
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 19, 2021, 07:56:40 am: Quote from: Simon J.A. Simpson on July 19, 2021, 07:44:57 am
... Slobodan, I wonder if your Lightroom has got its selection of Clone or Heal mixed-up or the preferences file has become corrupt ?

I tried both... Clone works as supposed.
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: fdisilvestro on July 19, 2021, 04:50:07 pm: Have you tried increasing the feathering to see if that makes any difference?
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 20, 2021, 03:08:29 am: Quote from: fdisilvestro on July 19, 2021, 04:50:07 pm
Have you tried increasing the feathering to see if that makes any difference?

I did, and no difference.
Title: Re: Healing Brush Broken?
Post by: fdisilvestro on July 20, 2021, 09:01:03 am: Maybe something got corrupted. I have had a couple of times when Adobe programs start doing weird things (Photoshop, LR, Premiere, etc.) and I just reinstall the faulty program, and so far it solved the issue.