How to Remove Objects in Lightroom Mobile and Classic

Do you want to remove a photo bomber from your perfect family portrait or erase power lines from your spotless landscape to give it a fabulous look? Don’t worry! After learning how to remove objects in Lightroom from this article, you’ll be able to quickly and easily remove everything, even little dust spots, from your image to give it a glorious look.

How to Remove Objects in Lightroom Mobile and Classic

After reading this article, you can effortlessly remove unwanted objects using advanced tools of Lightroom both on your mobile with its app version and also on your Desktop with the classic version. 

Image Removal Tools in Lightroom Mobile

Before going to discuss the complete process of removing unwanted objects in Lightroom mobile, it’s compulsory to know the functionality of each tool individually so that you can use the right tool at the right place. All these tools are also available in Lightroom Mod APK so the process of using these tools will also be the same.

Remove

The Remove tool will help you to remove unnecessary objects automatically. After selecting it, you’ve to paint over the area you want to remove, and you’ll see how this tool will automatically fill that selected area with the pixels near that area. You need to adjust the size of the brush and properly cover the object so that you may get better results. When you stop pressing the brush, the selected area will disappear, and it’ll finetune with the nearest area.

Heal

The Heal tool helps us in removing unwanted objects by replacing the area of that object with its surrounding area. While using it, you need to select a starting point with the desired texture, and the tool will then match the color and tone of the brushed area with the surrounding destination area. So it’ll assist you to change one area for another quickly and in a customized way. After replacing the area, you can adjust opacity and fade to make it finetune with the surrounding area.

Clone

The Clone tool helps us remove objects from an image by copying pixels from a source area and applying them to a destination area where something has been removed. While using this tool, you’ll find an imperfection in your image because the corners of the removed part will not be finetuned to its surrounding part, but you can adjust it by using the remove and heal tool.

How to Remove Objects in Lightroom Mobile?

  • The first thing is to import or open your photo to the Lightroom mobile library. To do this click on the icon available at the lower right part of the screen.
  • After importing the image, you need to verify that you’re in the edit mode, and you can ensure it if the edit option is available in the upper left corner.
  • At the bottom of the screen you’ll see a menu of different options. First, you’ve to click on the “Healing” option available at its bottom menu.
  • A new panel will open where you’ll see the “Brush size” and “Remove” options at the bottom of the blue icon.
  • Click on the blue icon, and in the drop-down menu, you’ll find three options, including Remove, Heal, and Clone. All of these tools will help you to erase distracting objects from your image.
  • Select anyone according to the nature of the object you want to remove after knowing the functionality of each tool, as mentioned in the above section.
  • Adjust the size of the brush according to the size of the object, paint over the area perfectly, click on the tick icon available at the upper right corner, and see the magic of tools.

How to Remove Objects in Lightroom Classic?

In Lightroom Classic, you’ll find the same tools, including Content-Aware Remove, Healing, and Clone, and they’ll perform the same functions as mentioned above for Lightroom mobile. But you need to follow the following steps to use these tools on Lightroom Classic:

  • Open Lightroom Classic on your Desktop or laptop and import images from your device into the Lightroom library.
  • Then, tab on the Develop module, and a toolbar will appear on the right side. At the right side of the crop icon, you’ll find a bandage icon, so click on it.
  • Then, a new toolbar will open at the bottom of the bandage icon with three tools, including Content-Aware Remove, Healing, and Clone.
  • Select any tool according to the nature of the object you want to remove from your image.
  • After selecting a tool, you’ll find three filters: size, opacity, and feather. The size slider allows you to adjust the brush size, opacity controls the transparency of the removed area, and feather affects the softness of the edges of the removed image.
  • Then, paint over the area or a particular object you want to remove, and these tools will automatically remove the painted parts.
  • Use all tools to finetune the part of the removed object with its surrounding area.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Remove tool is the best if you want to remove large objects from your image in Lightroom.

The healing tool can help you to remove spots from the skin or any other object, so select it while removing spots from the image in Lightroom. However, you can get a step-by-step guide for smoothening skin from our tutorial “How to smooth skin in Lightroom” if you want to use some advanced methods.

If you want to remove very small objects from the background of the focused object within the image, then you must select the clone tool. You can zoom in on your image if the object is too small and you’re feeling complexity in selecting it.

If you’ve used a remove tool to remove any large image, then you’ve to use a healing and clone tool to perfectly align its corner with the surrounding part to give it a natural look.

Conclusion

After learning how to remove objects in Lightroom , you can effortlessly remove distracting objects from your image and can ultimately enhance your photo editing experience. But make sure to use all tools to give a feel like you don’t have removed any object from your image because, for fine tuning, you must use both clone and healing tools. 

Moreover, the size of the brush and transparency level will also decide the perfection of your image. That’s why you need to experience different levels of fade filters. If your image is in a complicated pattern, then you can use more advanced tools in Lightroom Classic, like combining tools or stacking healing tools.

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