Lightroom question: Is it possible to remove a person from one photo and move to another within just Lightroom? I cannot find the tools to do that!

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Is it possible to remove a person from one photo and move to another within just Lightroom? I cannot find the tools to do that!

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

No, LR does not have a cut and paste option.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Rob47 wrote:

Is it possible to remove a person from one photo and move to another within just Lightroom? I cannot find the tools to do that!

No. Lightroom's strengths are Digital Asset Management, cataloging your images so 3 years from now, you can find the precise image you want.

It does have the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) editor engine, which helps tremendously, but it is nowhere close to the power of PhotoShop, which will perform the edits you mention.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

thanks! that's why I couldn't find it! Appreciate the info!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Rob47 wrote:

Is it possible to remove a person from one photo and move to another within just Lightroom? I cannot find the tools to do that!

No. You need a pixel editor that offers layers and masking to do that - Photoshop, Corel, etc etc etc. Lightroom is just a parametric global editor - it does not function on rasterized images at the pixel level, which is what you need.

manofhg Loc: Knoxville, TN

Without buying Photoshop, you can purchase Adobe Elements which will do that and many other Photoshop tools, but much cheaper. Of course now you can subscribe for about $10 per month and get photoshop and much more.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

With Elements and Photshop you can move seamlessly from LR and back again.

EnglishBrenda Loc: Kent, England

Gimp which is free can do this on their layers. It isn't too complicated to do but you do need to read the manual. We have an Gimp expert here who is very helpful, his name is Shakey and if you type Gimp in the search menu and look through for his name you will soon find it and his links. Gimp's link is below.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Thank you. That is great to know and I'll check it out!

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

manofhg wrote:

Without buying Photoshop, you can purchase Adobe Elements which will do that and many other Photoshop tools, but much cheaper. Of course now you can subscribe for about $10 per month and get photoshop and much more.

Light room 5 and PSE 12 here :thumbup:

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Gene51 wrote:

No. You need a pixel editor that offers layers and masking to do that - Photoshop, Corel, etc etc etc. Lightroom is just a parametric global editor - it does not function on rasterized images at the pixel level, which is what you need.

Gene, I have to disagree with you. The brush, radial filter, clone/heal tool, linear gradient allow you to do some local tweaks. But on the larger question of taking something from one shot and put it into another, you are correct.

MtnMan Loc: ID

brucewells wrote:

No. Lightroom's strengths are Digital Asset Management, cataloging your images so 3 years from now, you can find the precise image you want.

It does have the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) editor engine, which helps tremendously, but it is nowhere close to the power of PhotoShop, which will perform the edits you mention.

Very poor statement of Lightroom. It is a fabulous Highly capable Editor. Most who own it and Photoshop find it meets 95% + of needs; I.e don't need Photoshop.

I'd say it's primary strengths are elegant simplicity of workflow and presets, making it especially powerful for RAW editing.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Yes, I love the workflow of LR. Learn something new with it everyday. I'm able to enhance my images easily. Clone, heal, etc is great. Now learned I cannot take an image from one photo and transfer to another but I rarely need this function. Thanks for the response!

MtnMan Loc: ID

abc1234 wrote:

Gene, I have to disagree with you. The brush, radial filter, clone/heal tool, linear gradient allow you to do some local tweaks. But on the larger question of taking something from one shot and put it into another, you are correct.

Yes. I don't know how these folks get such a warped perspective of Lightroom. They clearly don't use it.

But we all agree it doesn't do what the OP asked.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

MtnMan wrote:

Very poor statement of Lightroom. It is a fabulous Highly capable Editor. Most who own it and Photoshop find it meets 95% + of needs; I.e don't need Photoshop.

I'd say it's primary strengths are elegant simplicity of workflow and presets, making it especially powerful for RAW editing.

While I don't disagree with your statements of LR, I stand by my statement. The LR editor is not equivalent to PS. Different editing capabilities. Yes, LR will do 80-90% of the work I do on an image, but that other 10-20% must be done with PS, or something like it.

I bought LR to manage my catalog of images.