Lightroom's New Duplicate Finder Is the Catalog Cleanup Tool I've Been Waiting Years For

Lightroom's New Duplicate Finder Is the Catalog Cleanup Tool I've Been Waiting Years For

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from spending twenty minutes manually refining a mask around flyaway hair or the gap between a subject’s arm and waist, knowing that the automated selection tool almost got it right but not quite. For years, “almost” was the operating word with Lightroom’s Select Subject. It was good enough for a quick rough cut, but for beauty work, where the difference between a clean edge and a halo can make or break a composite, I always ended up doing significant manual cleanup.