Removing black specks in Photoshop

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Mar 5, 2008
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I have a scan from a daguerreotype which has lots of little black specks, and I can’t seem to find a good way to remove these in Photoshop. My image can be seen at http://www.neatview.com/s/woodard.jpg. Does anyone have a suggestion to cleanup those tiny black specks?

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gregory

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Mike Russell
Mar 5, 2008
"gregory" wrote in message
I have a scan from a daguerreotype which has lots of little black specks, and I can’t seem to find a good way to remove these in Photoshop. My image can be seen at http://www.neatview.com/s/woodard.jpg. Does anyone have a suggestion to cleanup those tiny black specks?

Hi gregory,

An interesting image.

Click on the lasso tool, set feather to 15, and select and area with a bunch of dots. Then use Filter>Noise>Dust and Scratches, and set the radius to 2. Click OK and I think you’ll be pleased with the result. The reason you use the lasso tool is so that you keep detail in objects such as the phone lines and trees. Hold the alt key down for straight line selections, such as along the telephone lines and RR tracks.

Leave some of the noise in place, for example by using Edit>Fade (ctrl-shift-F) or you’ll get an unnaturally smooth appearance. Or dupe the image to a new layer, and use a layer mask to control how much, and where, the filter changes the image.

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gregory
Mar 5, 2008
Thank you, Mike, this works wonderfully!

gregory
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Derek Fountain
Mar 6, 2008
Click OK and I think you’ll be pleased with the result. The reason you use the lasso tool is so that you keep detail in objects such as the phone lines and trees. Hold the alt key down for straight line selections, such as along the telephone lines and RR tracks.

An alternative to making tricky straight edged selections around those phone lines would be to blat over them with dust and scratches, then get them back by make a path along them and stroking that path with the history brush.


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