Lasso Healing??? any ideas

[mkonrad]

Hallo,

I have a technical question. I was at a pro retouching house last week for a meeting and saw one of the guys removing dust and minor inperfections by
drawing a lasso around the area.
As I had a meeting I only noticed this not any tool settings but it was like patch
healing without the dragging or spot healing with a lasso instead of a brush...
Does anyone have an idea how this is done?

[Swampy]

Mkonrad

The PS patch healing tool is the only one I can think of that uses the lasso tool.

[mkonrad]

there was definetly no dragging, so it must be an advanced brush setting or some kind of automation.

[TheVeed]

are you sure they weren't pressing any other keys while they were doing it? They could've been deleting from a later to a layer underneath.

[smak]

Maybe he lassoing an area on a mask and then filling with white or black.
Or copy and paste.
Or ?

[cricket1961]

Or they did a lasso and ran a median or dust and scratches filter.

[KR1156]

they might have been quickly lassoing, and pressing command > F, to run what ever smoothing filter they setup. you would never notice that.

[Swampy]

KR...This would be perfect for a soft gaussian blur on the selected areas, they might even have set an action with a keyboard shortcut.