Hi everyone, in this video we're going to remove stuff, what has he removed?

Oh, there was a window, and the weeds...

we start with the weeds, we end up removing the entire window, cool, huh.

This one here, check out the power lines, before, after...

now this next one I've removed something, you have to guess what it is...

do you remember, from earlier in the class?

3, 2, 1, look, there was a woman there, gone...

so we're going to remove objects using the Healing function inside of Lightroom...

plus I will build on some of the skills we learned in the last video...

some tips and tricks, let's jump in.

All right, so open up the 'Retouching 03' from the Exercise Files'...

'H', for our healing, and we're going to use that first tool, Brush Size...

get it something, we're going to get rid of the weeds.

So click, hold, and just paint it out, just like skin, you can touch up weeds...

now because there is a big kind of...

you know, a bit of depth here, so there's different size kind of wood chips...

and different textures towards the house in the shadow...

you might have to hit 'Refresh' a few times...

if that doesn't work, often it does...

but what you can do is, let's say we grab this bit...

what you can do is, say, because at the moment what it's doing is...

you hit 'Refresh', what is it doing, where is it getting from...

who knows? It's magic...

but you can say, "I know, I don't want it to be so magical"...

you can hold down your 'Command' key on a Mac, 'Ctrl' key on a PC...

and this one here, now that I've drawn it, so paint it in...

hold down that key, 'Command', or 'Ctrl', and just drag around an area...

that you know is good, and will pull it and try and put it over there.

Sometimes it can get a little bit repetitive...

you can hit 'Refresh' still but there are times where you're like...

actually, this bit, but not there, it's grabbing it from too high up...

I'm going to say something here...

I'm going to drag a box around this, get that bit for me, nice.

The other thing with it is that, let's say this one down here...

if you end up trying to do too much at once...

like a big blob of it, it can get messy...

a little bit repetitive, gets a bit fuzzy on the edge...

it's happier doing smaller parts, so doing this part...

nice, this part once, that part, in my experience...

that's a bit same, I'm going to hit 'Refresh, 'Refresh' again...

looking good, are you thinking what I'm thinking...

can we get rid of the window? Oh, I think we can...

painty, painty, paint...

really rough...

it's not bad, it's got this kind of weird stuff down the bottom...

can we get it with a Refresh?

We cannot, why? Probably because my-- the thing I painted in...

left it too close there, can you see, it's right around the edge there...

so what I'm going to do is, probably drag it down a little bit...

can you see, I left too much of that ledge there, that's pretty good, like...

the trick with it is, if you were looking at it, and it changes...

you're like, "Oh, I can see it"...

look away, I'm going to do a little spin of my chair, ready, full 360...

oh, do you even know where the edges are?

I don't do a full 360, that was showmanship...

so yeah, I don't know, it's pretty amazing.

So that's removing parts of an image...

let's do some other ones. I want to add some more tips and tricks to this...

so 'G', back into here, what I'm looking for is...

oh, I'm looking at the one that has a sign, can I find it this way, so not here...

and this one, something has a sign in it, it doesn't...

how can I find that building? "Shop"...

oh, it's working great, Dan, so powerful, "Store"...

okay, I can't get it...

so I'm going to go back to, this one, I'm looking for, you wait there...

there it is there, the name of this one...

if I double click it, hit 'I', if you're looking for it...

look for Adare number two, type that in search, it'll work.

The things that annoyed me about these earlier images are the power lines...

always with the power lines...

so I'm going to 'H' for heal, and I'm going to show you another little tip...

I'm going to make a smaller brush...

you can drag it down, you can use your scroll wheel.

Another tip is, just use your-- so look at your keyboard...

you've got open and close square brackets, next to your P key...

you just tap those and it gets bigger and smaller...

so I'm going to click, not off, but about here, click once...

hold shift on my keyboard, both Mac and PC, and click there again...

and it draws a little straight line across them...

look how cool that is, oh, gone...

same with this one, click once, hold 'Shift'...

I can get pretty, I can overlap that a little bit...

it's pretty good at leaving the edges alone...

oh, but the brush needs to be smaller...

'Command +', or 'Ctrl +', 'spacebar'...

you can nick the edge of that, so I'm going to undo...

I could just move it, right? I'm going to redo it and just go, don't touch that...

oh, magic, look how-- it just overlaps that...

if you've done this in the past with like the Healing brush...

you'll know that that gets a bit, a whole lot smudgy and just doesn't work...

whereas this Content Aware...

click once, hold 'Shift', click again...

it's just too magic.

All right, so those are easy ones...

I start with ones that work because it makes it look good...

we feel good, I feel good, but let's look at ones...

that get messier and messier and then eventually don't work...

so let's go back to 'G', I'm going to look for this one...

we replaced the sky on it earlier here...

this one here, any which one you want...

was it that one, was it that one?

Anyone, open it up, the one I've got open is, 'I', is...

oh, one of my edits...

that's the sky replacement one...

let's do it the long way so you can find it as well...

I'm going to go 'P', look at all my photos, we've got one in Adare Limerick...

and there was this one, it wasn't, it was under Masking...

and here it is, here, remember, we've got two options...

we can either look at the one we started with...

or the one that's been retouched, I don't mind, going to open up the first one...

and I-- and what annoyed me was this...

like, is this period correct? Probably not, looks quite cool...

kind of ornate at the top, it doesn't fit with my vibe...

neither is this area at the top here, so 'H' key...

and going to leave everything as it was, and this top one can be super easy...

just gets rid of it, magic.

This one here, I'm going to use a smaller brush...

I'm using my scroll wheel, click once, hold 'Shift'

you can't click off here, you've got to be kind of close to the edge here...

is it believable enough, what do you think? Before, after...

use my backslash key, '\', before, after, before, after...

it's maybe not, and there's just going to be times where you're like...

"Oh, is it enough?"...

I think, again, do your circle, spin on your chair...

I think it's probably going to work for me, it just blends it, like...

if I told you that was healed out...

I bet you'd believe me because it looks a bit weird, but that's real life...

before, after...

let's look at one that caused me problems when I was demoing this course...

and I was like, "I better show them that"...

we're going to look at, which one do we do this one?

Let's go back to our photos...

I think I might have even put mine in Retouching, I did not...

it was under Dehaze, where do we--

oh there's an actual one called Dehaze, there it is...

remember this one from earlier? It is called--

I'm going to open it up, hit 'I' for you...

so if you're looking for it, it's called Dehaze 4...

and what I went into is, I'm like, great, went to this, went to start using it...

and it wouldn't work, it just wouldn't zoom in and out, I was like...

it was just, this brush, wouldn't-...

and I pause this video, spent ages just trying to figure it out...

and what I realized was...

is that I haven't used this image for a while...

like you don't know this, but between, like the last video and this one...

or at least the last couple, I took a break to do a big conference for Adobe...

and so I've come back to this, and what ends up happening is...

the Sync option up here...

so I turned the sync off while I was recording...

just so that my computer doesn't stress out...

and the fans come on and it ruins my noise...

so I turned that off, I open this image, what had happened is...

this one had been take-- because it hadn't been used for a long time...

Lightroom goes "Well, he hasn't used it for ages, let's take it off his hard drive...

we'll keep it in the Cloud, don't worry, and when he needs it, can download it...

but for the moment let's just clear it off this machine," so it's not kind of...

you know, overflowing with images, that's one of the nice things about Lightroom...

but because Dan said, sync it, uh, don't sync, opened it up...

it wouldn't let me do a whole lot of things let me do some things but not healing...

what the heck is he talking about?

If you ever run into problems just check that your syncing is actually on...

and took a little bit for mine to download, and then it started working again...

and I thought I should tell you, there you go, let's remove the girl...

you're ruining our picture of rocks, there you go...

here we go...

okay-ish, let's refresh, oh, again...

could we do the spin? We could do the spin, that would be doable...

I'm standing back, I'm looking at it...

it's funny, I wanted to go to the edge because I feel like...

I know it goes to the edge...

but it actually looks better when the surf, all kind of smashing in there...

man, this thing is cool...

I'm happy enough...

I want to click it again.

So yep, removing something completely, just know that sync might have to be on...

there's a little one that doesn't work so I'm going to go 'G' again...

and I'm going to look for, can I search for DJ?

Oh, not in Dehaze, just in the All Search, can I type in DJ?

That does not work, hands...

does that work...

oh, it worked, there's this one here...

I want to remove this one, annoyed me in the last video...

which is not going to work...

it's going to try its best but there's just times where it doesn't work...

and there's no fixing it as such, I could...

start some work in, let's just prove it doesn't work first...

here we go, come on, come on...

oh, it kind of works, you're like, "Oh, it's nearly there"...

what about, can I? No, I can't, there's...

there are limitations, especially with inorganic objects...

like these really hard lines and buttons, and stuff...

it tries its best, it's doing amazingly...

but I can't keep building on top of that...

this is where something like Photoshop would be handy...

I might have to do some copying, and pasting, and cloning...

and some other stuff in Photoshop...

but there are limitations to Content Aware, both in Photoshop and in Lightroom...

normally it comes down to inorganic objects, man-made stuff.

Now the other tips I wanted to give you is...

whenever I'm photo editing I always darken my room so I close my windows...

because yeah, there's just light reflections, end up ruining...

yeah, you just need to be in a nice darkly lit room, which is

no fun, it's a sunny day today, and I'm in, closed all my curtains.

The other thing is, is to clean your screen...

sometimes you can end up trying to retouch things off your screen...

that are physically on your screen...

and for me, grossly it's normally some sort of spit...

or something has landed on my screen and I'm like...

trying to retouch it, I'm like, it's not going, why isn't it going?...

and then I get my finger out and I give it a scratch...

you can't see me scratching my screen...

but it's just something stuck to it...

so, clean your screen, people, especially you, Dan, gross, there you go...

that's how to remove objects from Lightroom using the Healing option...

but this Content Aware Remove, super nice...

all right, on to the next video.