Shortcut to Refresh Healing Spots in Lightroom Classic

Did you know there’s a keyboard shortcut that will refresh ANY healing spot? I didn't until a few days ago and I gotta say, I'm lovin' it! Here it is:

Step 1:

Open the healing tool (press Q on your keyboard) and use any of the three healing tools to remove a spot on an image.

Step 2:

Hit the / key on your keyboard and the spot will refresh or regenerate itself.

Each healing tool refreshes differently because the shortcut will refresh however each tool does when you click the refresh button. Here’s what I mean...

Remover Tool:

Content aware - refreshes spot

Generative AI - regenerates spot

Healing Tool:

Refreshes spot by choosing another area to heal from.

Clone Tool:

Refreshes spot by choosing another area to clone from.

Where has this shortcut been my whole life? Has it been hiding innocently under my pinky finger the whole time?

Go try it out—it’s fun! 🤓

Happy editing,

Erika