Dust and Scrathes filter

[biggles1]

I am relatively new to the Photoshop product - and as I am sure others before me, find the software quite daunting to get my head around.

I am trying to scan negatives using a Minolta film scanner and use these images on my web site. Because I am using a scanner that DOES NOT have the ICE3 technology, every neg I scan gets some dust specs on the final image.

I know that I can overcome this problem using the Filter..Noise...Dust and Scratches - and set the relavent settings. My problem is that setting this filter to overcome the dust and scratches - actually softens the focus of the image.

Someone suggested that there is a way of using layers along with the Dust and Scratches filter in order to remove the dust specs and yet no to drastically impact on the overall focus of the image.

Can anyone offer any light into how this technique works - I would be very grateful.

Regards

Andy

 

[azhdeem]

Depending on how many dust particles you get on the image, a simpler method might be to use the Rubber Stamp tool. This would produce a far better result in my opinion.

Select the tool (Keyboard Shortcut - S), then Alt-click somewhere in your picture that matches the image that is being covered up by the dust to set the Stamp. Then click on the image's blemish. It should now be gone. You might try playing around with the opacity of the Stamp to get the desired result.

Hope this helps,
Jer

 

[SPYDERIX]

That's what I always do. "Clone Stamp/Rubber Stamp Tool" works the best. Another method might be for you to scan in the picture at the highest resolution possible and then free-transform (Crtl+T) down, and that will probably eliminate quite alot of them, then you can go in and touch up the area with the CloneStamp/RubberStamp or in PS-7 you could use the healing brush.

Hope this helps!