Object removal in Lightroom Classic

Object removal in Lightroom Classic recently received an upgrade that includes AI technology. I've used the feature a few times, and recently, I decided to put it to the ultimate test.

Here is a picture that I took while back in one of the my grandsons soccer games.

I’ve always loved this picture but found the water bottle in front of the little girl and the soccer ball behind her distracting. So, I decided to remove them using Lightroom’s new AI-powered removal tool. Here is the end result.

As you can see, the result is unbelievably good! Lightroom removed the water bottle and seamlessly restored the background, making it look impressively realistic.

Stitching pictures in Lightroom Classic

 In a previous post I mentioned that is possible to create high resolution and wide angle picture with a zoom lens by using the panorama merging option of Lightroom Classic. Here is how Adobe explains the process. 

The process is very simple once you have mastered it. The best process to learn is trial and error. My tips are, set the aperture in your camera to f/11. Try to overlap the pictures that you are taking on around 30 to 40%. I have tried to center focus in each picture I take or focus in the center of what will become the resultant picture and without changing the focus taking all the pictures. Both ways have worked for me and all depend on what you want the end result to look like. If you focus in each picture the end result will be sharp from corner to corner including the center. Keep in mind that using this method, if you are not taking sufficient pictures you may end with zones in the merged picture that are out of focus, specially if the aperture using is not small enough (f/2.8 is larger than f/11, keep that in mind).