Lightroom has spotting tools. Presuming that dust spots are in a stable location for a series of frames, you can copy and paste the spot removal to as many files as needed, which will spot them all automatically. It also has a very neat mode to scan images for dust spots:
- open the image you want to scan in the Develop module. - open the Navigator panel on the upper left - choose 1:1 or up magnification - press the Home key ... the selected area in the navigator will be in the upper-left corner - choose the spotting tool - visually look for dust and spot it out, when done with the section, press the Page Down key on your keyboard. Pressing the Page Down key repeatedly will move the selection through the view by columns, ultimately covering every pixel of the image. - once you're done scanning and spotting, go to the Library module, Loupe view and do Photo->Develop Settings->Copy Settings (or the keyboard equivalent). Click "Check None" at the bottom then check the Spot Removal option. - Click OK. - Go into Grid view. Select all the images that require that spotting. - Do Photo->Develop Settings->Copy Settings (or the keyboard equivalent). Not quite as automated but very effective. For Photoshop, it's as simple as creating a spotting layer using the standard tool on your reference image, doing the spotting, and then duplicating the layer to all and sundry images that need it. Piece of cake. Of course, you're better off not having dust on your sensor in the first place. And all bets are off when it comes to scanned film ... the dust will move around too much. Then in-scanner IR based dust and scratch removal is a godsend. Godfrey On Jul 11, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > I heard from my brother that Nikon Capture has a nice > implementation of > dust removal from the images: > 1) take a photo of a blank sheet; all the speckles (on the sensor) > will be > recorded. > 2) designate that file as a reference, and the program will remove > those speckles from other images. > > So, my question is: Does Lightroom or Photoshop have > such a capability? I have never seen one, but maybe it is just called > something I do not anticipate. (Is it planned in LR-v2?) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
