[Leica] OT: Best Way to Remove Dust and Scratches in Photoshop?

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Greg,
there's a plug-in called hot pixel fix (by mediachance) that will get 
rid of dust and white spots quite effectively, though you may have to 
run it through a couple of times. The advantage is, it only picks up the 
discrete spots an leves the rest of the image alone -I cleaned up the 
pictures of my parents wedding with it, 60
year old pictures, it reduces manual de-spotting work by about 95%
It's part of a package called DCE Tools which contains some other very 
clever and effective stuff too.
Scratches are more difficult, use the healing brush tool (NOT spot 
healing) set to "replace", enlarge the image so you can see the single 
pixels, pick a sample
parallel to the scratch (shift/click) and then move te little circle to 
paint over the scratch. Wth a bit of practice this works pretty well
Douglas

GREG LORENZO wrote:

>Photoshop CS newbie question.
>
>I've got an old b&w scan from an old negative that looks like it was 
>dropped on the floor and some dust thrown on it before it was scanned in my 
>(now gone for service) Nikon Film Scanner.
>
>Rescanning the original negative is not an option at least for for another 
>3 - 4 weeks. I've tried using the "Dust and Scratch Filter" in Photoshop 
>CS, plus some cleanup with the "Clone Stamp" and it is still very dusty and 
>scratched looking. 
>
>Is there something else I can try with Photoshop CS or with the Photoshop 
>CS2 software I have but not installed yet?
>
>All advice appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg 
>
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