On 2012-09-06 13:25, Tina Manley wrote:
The Polaroid Dust and Scratches filter deals with dust and scratches better than anything I have found, but it does result in some artifacts. To get around that, I apply the D&S filter at whatever strength is needed to get rid of most of the flaws. Then in the History panel, I click the box that applies the History Brush to that level and then click on the level above (before the filter was applied). That way you can use the History Brush, viewing at 100%, to brush out only the flaws and the filter is not applied to the whole photo. You can do the same thing with layers, but I usually use the History Brush because it's easier and faster.
If you're spotting dust bits individually, is this really better than spot healing brush?
For big dirty background areas, I've been using ordinary Photoshop Dust & Scratches filter, on a copy of the background layer, and then creating a layer mask to limit it to the areas where detail isn't critical (out-of-focus backrounds generally). (I was scanning several hundred B&W index prints from the 1960s by another photographer; to call them "somewhat dirty" would be an understatement.)
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