Dust Spots and their removal?

[VidKid]

My favorite technique to remove Dust & Scratches is to use the Blur Tool.

Set Mode to Lighten for dark dust/artifact type spots with Opacity @ 100%, then use the Clone or Healing Tool for the few bigger spots.

VidKid

[clivet]

Hi Robt, sorry this is a long time in coming - try my software for dust removal on this image - I did and it cleaned the image up easily! The software was designed for this very purpose and type of image!

http://www.phototeknik.com/imageduster

See what you think and let me know?

Clive Talbutt
Phototeknik.com

[Kraellin]

working only with the original image posted, i noticed a LOT of noise in the picture. by resizing down to a smaller image it corrects almost all of this. i suspect this was a result of 'digital zoom' on the camera, which is basically nothing more than zooming in with a similar algorithm as photoshop. by resizing you get rid of that.

the next thing i did was clone out the dust in the sky and a few in a few other places. it really wasnt that much.

i then masked the sky and ran both a light median filter and a low gausian blur to even out the artifacting..

i also ran a histogram adjust to balance up the colors and brightness.

nice pic, btw

Craig