Removing Dust Spots from Your Photos
Matt shows you how to use the Spot Healing Brush and Elements’s Invert command to clean up sensor dust spots that can appear in your digital photos.
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edmund
January 17, 2012 at 7:58 am
I really got a lot out of this tutorial. It will come in handy.
John E
January 26, 2012 at 6:08 am
Why does The Spot Healing Brush removes the dust spots but leave a dark spot on the image.
Lee
January 27, 2012 at 10:16 am
I LOVE the SHBr, but it isn’t perfect. This, unless I’m mistaken, is because it’s based on mathematics and not the human eye & brain. Sometimes I’ve run into what you mention. At that point we’re probably better off zooming in very close and using the cloning tool (especially when working on detail areas). But, in general Matt’s suggestion about using the SHBr will save you lots and lots of time.
Also, instead of “painting” the way Matt does, I typically use a hard-edge brush and make my brush size just a little larger than the spot to be removed. Then I click once or twice on the spot. This seems to limit the color substitution to the area immediately surrounding the spot. Therefore the spot is replaced with colors which are almost 100% accurate.
Best regards.
Lee
January 27, 2012 at 10:17 am
P.S. This tool also works REALLY well on B/W photos.
George
February 19, 2012 at 9:29 am
While it’s reassuring to know that I am not the only one with lots of spots, I do wish there was a more-automated way of removing them.
When one has got, say, 150 slides to prepare for one’s slide show and prints, spot-removing is a very tedious task indeed.