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Content Aware or Layers to Mask & Remove?

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Hi all. I'm an aerial photographer/videographer, and certainly NOT an editor but I am trying! I am trying to use LR CC Mobile to remove a tower crane behind our state capitol building, but I suspect that I'm approaching this wrong. Using the healing tool wasn't effective (see attachment), so I asked a good editor friend who suggested using Photoshop to mask the sky, copy to a second layer, and then use the content aware fill feature. Is there a similar approach using LR CC Mobile, or would you recommend something else?
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Your friend was right. Photoshop would also be my choice. But can we see the problem before you tried to fix it?
 
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The other thing I'd do is use a clone line against the edge of the building, then a heal over the rest of it. That clone line will give you a clean edge against the building, and as long as the heal patch doesn't touch the building, it shouldn't smudge.
 
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I would certainly try LR first, but the dome is going to make it difficult to get a clean edge. Not impossible, and I think you'd need lots of very small healing spots, not a few big ones, particularly at each point where the crane touches the dome. With PS, one would just use the pen to select the shape of the dome and protect it while using clone or content aware fill - realistic results much quicker. But it's quite a learning curve, and sometimes it's better squeezing every last bit out of LR.

The pen in PS:
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I'd just use a single curved clone line with a small feather, rather than multiple spots, but I do agree it's tricky without a graphics tablet! I'd tend to switch to PS for this kind of thing.
 
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The new Content-Aware Fill menu in Photoshop should make this easier because you can define the areas it can use, but this should be fairly simple using the clone tool instead of healing, or a combination of both tools
 
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