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Washing off the stabilizer will cause the slide to deteriorate rapidly if you don’t restabilize it. Don’t try this yourself.
If a scanner with Digital ICE won’t take care of most of the dust, either the slides were originally processed in bad chemicals or you’ve got some nasty fungus instead of just dust.
You really ought to ask in some newsgroup where people use chemicals more than Photoshop. 🙂 But if you have to use Photoshop for dusting, the Healing Brush in Photoshop 7 often works better than Clone/Stamp.
I’ve got some Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides that are really old and dusty due to improper storage. I’ve used canned air and the PEC-12 cleaning fluid method and still end up spending hours cloning out crap in Photoshop which is a huge amount of time for one slide.
Has anyone ever removed a slide from the mount and washed it in water taking care not to scratch it? You can then dry it with a soft cotton cloth and maybe blow dry it to prevent water marks. After that remount it in a new mount. Maybe this topic has been discussed before but I’ve never seen it and would like to know if someone else has done it before.
Washing off the stabilizer will cause the slide to deteriorate rapidly if you don’t restabilize it. Don’t try this yourself.
If a scanner with Digital ICE won’t take care of most of the dust, either the slides were originally processed in bad chemicals or you’ve got some nasty fungus instead of just dust.
You really ought to ask in some newsgroup where people use chemicals more than Photoshop. 🙂 But if you have to use Photoshop for dusting, the Healing Brush in Photoshop 7 often works better than Clone/Stamp.
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