This new spot-removal tool is useful for trying to remove one or two distracting objects from your photo. The spot-removal tool "heals" a section of your photo by matching texture, lighting and shading from another area of the picture.
In both cases you can choose the portion of the photo you want the tool to use as a guide. Instead, the tool either clones another section of your photo onto the area you want fixed or "heals" it by matching texture, lighting and shading from another area of the picture.
I'd hoped the tool would use Photoshop's relatively new content-aware technology to try to figure out exactly how to fix the area being brushed - that certainly would have been worth an upgrade. Lightroom 5 allows you to click and drag the spot-removal tool, in essence turning it into a brush that can handle any shape, not just a circular spot. Earlier versions of Lightroom have a spot-removal tool that can be resized but not reshaped it's a round tool that can only be used by clicking on one spot at a time. For someone like me who takes a lot of cityscape and wide-angle shots, Lightroom 5 may be worth the upgrade for this tool alone. In both cases, the one-click auto-correction button gave excellent results. I tried Upright on a tilted photo that was snapped through the windshield of a moving car (so it's blurry) and a skyline photo that needed perspective correction. As with any Lightroom setting, results can then be further tweaked manually. The Upright tool includes an auto-correction button along with three presets for level, horizontal and vertical corrections. Fixing perspective distortion is trickier, generally involving several sliders and some tradeoffs - because often if you straighten one building in a cityscape, others start looking warped. Straightening a tilted horizon is already fairly easy - you just rotate your photo until it's straight, although it does take some finessing to get the angle exactly right. One is the classic "Oops, I didn't hold my camera straight so my photo is tilted." The other is a perspective issue that can be caused by the limits of your equipment, not poor technique: Unless you've got a pricey tilt-shift lens, taking building or cityscape shots often means your building lines aren't vertical, especially for a wide-angle shot. The new Upright tool within Lightroom's lens-correction panel deals with two problems you may encounter with a photograph.
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