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Removing Power lines Issues

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Hi All
Hope you can help
1 - when I remove power lines in photoshop or Lightroom classic there is often a residual "blotch".
I am using content aware fill but I don't know how to do this without the blotch or without the removal leaving discoloration in the sky where the lines were.

2 - What do you do to remove power line or a power pole in front of a building/structure? Removing the item causes a distortion on the remaining building.

thanks in advance for the help

Mark
 
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I have found the Content Aware delete in LrC to be underwhelming in many cases. More often than not it what it puts in the area being fixed is quite blurry and unusable. don't get me wrong, sometimes it works fine, but more often than not the results are unusable and I have to revert to either clone or heal modes of the Healing Tools. For wires I have found that doing the wire a small segment at a time is usually better than trying to get the whole wire across the whole image all at once. As you are deciding how much of the wire to do at a time, keep in mind that you'll have to find someplace else in the image for it to get the replacement pixels so select as much wire to replace based on see an area of similar size from which it can get replacement pixels. If the wire is against the sky and there is plenty of other sky then you can use longer segments. If, on the other had, the wire is in front of a building or complex background then use smaller segments that correspond with background. Switch back and forth between Clone and Heal as sometimes one works better than the other.
 
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Please do not post the same question twice, also not in different forums.
 
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Califdan said:
I have found the Content Aware delete in LrC to be underwhelming...
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Agreed! Actually, I'm not really sure what it is supposed to do different to "Heal".
 
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BobT said:
Agreed! Actually, I'm not really sure what it is supposed to do different to "Heal".
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Content Aware Delete is supposed to use a form of AI to create content that does not otherwise exist anywhere in the image. The way I understand this is this. Heal will copy pixels from someplace else in the photo but upon landing at the target location it will adjust the Hue, Saturation, and luminance to match what it finds surrounding the area being replaced. In other words it is copying the form and texture from the source locaiton but figuring out the color from the area surrounding the destination. Content Aware adds another dimension to this. With Content Aware it also looks at lines and patterns in the area around the desitination area and will replicate those lines and patterns across the area. For example if you remove a tree which is front of a fence, it's supposed to "see" the fence on either side of the tree and based on the pattern of the fence create new fence where the tree had been. This is said to be differern than healing in that it is not copying the fence from someplace else, but rather inventing the fence based on what it sees on either side. So they say. I've not seen it work all that well to be honest.
 
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Crotonmark30 said:
Well it’s both a Lightroom and a photoshop issue. Wanted to cover all the bases
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Don’t do it. Pick one forum (Lightroom Classic would make the most sense, because that is where the question arose). Multiple posting is very annoying for people who spend time on answering you in one of the two threads, only to find later that they wasted their time, because in the other thread somebody gave more or less the same answer already.
 
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Johan Elzenga said:
Don’t do it. Pick one forum (Lightroom Classic would make the most sense, because that is where the question arose). Multiple posting is very annoying for people who spend time on answering you in one of the two threads, only to find later that they wasted their time, because in the other thread somebody gave more or less the same answer already.
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ok - understood
 
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