Many of us who’ve been using Adobe editing tools for years find that there’s less and less reason to open our images in Photoshop. Instead, Camera Raw and Lightroom offer almost everything we need. But for precise retouching work, Photoshop has always been better – until now. The latest updates to Camera Raw and Lightroom include a healing feature that could be a game-changer for your raw editing workflow, because now we can use Content-Aware Fill with our raw photos.
Content-Aware Fill lets you target an object, then watch as Photoshop removes it. Now, we can use it with the Healing brush in Camera Raw, as well as with the near-identical tools in Lightroom’s Develop Module. So if there’s a distracting object or detail that you want to be rid of, you can simply paint over it. Of course, it’s not going to be perfect every time. But with the other features in the Healing tool, you can usually tidy up. Once done, you can finish the image with one of our 10 free winter-themed profiles…
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