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Copy (heal or clone) with Spot Removal an area over a white space (constrained)?

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I have a crop here and want to copy (heal or clone) with Spot Removal an area near the white area over the white are:
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Why does it not work?
 
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But it looks like as if it was in the file / image. It is shown in the image (when I export it), so why is it outside the file then? The white area is caused by the guide lines in the Transform panel.
 
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Yes yes, but I'd like to do it with Lightroom. Cannot imagine such easy task cannot be done with it.
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Maybe you cannot imagine that, but it's still true. Lightroom can fill empty edges in a panorama (because it creates a new DNG image when merging the panorama) so maybe empty edges because of transformation will also be solved one day, but right now you cannot do this in Lightroom, period.
 
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Is there anything against it to import the tif image again and do the spot removal? Might there occur any quality loss, drawback or so?
 
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foyer said:
Is there anything against it to import the tif image again and do the spot removal? Might there occur any quality loss, drawback or so?
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No, 'Edit in Photoshop' brings back the edited TIFF/PSD into Lightroom automatically for exactly that reason: so you can do those edits that Lightroom can't do in Photoshop. The only thing is that it creates an RGB copy of the raw file.
 
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No no, sorry, I meant I edit the image in Lightroom like usual and to make that spot removal I export it (save it to the drive) and then I import the exported image and do the sport removal like usual in Lightroom. I assume, there will be no drawback doing it that way as well, won't it?

I do not want to use Photoshop.
 
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No no, sorry, I meant I edit the image in Lightroom like usual and to make that spot removal I export it (save it to the drive) and then I import the exported image and do the sport removal like usual in Lightroom. I assume, there will be no drawback doing it that way as well, won't it?

I do not want to use Photoshop.
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The effect will be the same: you will get a TIFF/PSD copy. I would use Photoshop however. The Photoshop content-aware tools are superior to Lightroom's clone/heal brush.
 
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Above all I do not have any idea of Photoshop, I am not able to use it.

When I change e.g. the exposure after doing some spot removals the spots / area the spots are somehow get visible like this:
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Why is it? And how could I avoid that?
 
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