digitally remove mildew spots from old slide

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May 5, 2005
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Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo? I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks in advance, George

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RSD99
May 5, 2005
The Clone tool is one way, but have you tried Polaroid’s ‘Dust and Scratch Removal Utility?’

It’s a free download at
http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.htm l

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Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo? I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks in advance, George

http://gah.ms11.net//Scan14.jpg
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nomail
May 5, 2005
George wrote:

Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo? I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks in advance, George

Select the sky with the lasso tool. Run ‘Filter – Noise – Dust & Scratches’ with Radius 2 pixels and Threshold 7.

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Tom Thomas
May 5, 2005
George wrote:

Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo? I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks in advance, George

http://gah.ms11.net//Scan14.jpg

Select the entire sky and apply the "Dust & Scratches" filter with a radius of 2. That takes care of the vast majority of the specks. You might have to tinker if you want to avoid losing the wires crossing the sky, or you might decide to get rid of those also.
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George
May 6, 2005
Johan W. Elzenga wrote:
George wrote:

Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo? I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks in advance, George

Select the sky with the lasso tool. Run ‘Filter – Noise – Dust & Scratches’ with Radius 2 pixels and Threshold 7.
Thank you. that worked very well and is saving me a lot of time.
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harrylimey
May 6, 2005
Here’s a method I copied from somewhere and some clever person! I have not tried this but it sounds good, and seems to involve very little work!!
maybe you could try it and post back the result?

Harry

"TO RID A PHOTO OF UNWANTED DUST SPOTS ETC.,
Here’s a technique to try. If the spots are light, duplicate the background layer and change the duplicate’s blending mode to Darken. With the Move tool selected, press any of your arrow keys once. Most of the spots disappear. You’ve separated each dust mote and its twin (on the second layer) by 1 pixel. Photoshop compares the two layers and chooses the darker pixel at each location. If most of the dust is 1 pixel in size, you’ve solved your problem.

If there are still too many dust spots, move one more pixel (I choose a different direction). You may find fine dark details (like eyelashes) become too thick. You can restore these details with a layer mask, making the duplicate layer transparent just in those few details."
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mono
May 6, 2005
George wrote:
Photoshop 7.0: any suggestions for cleaning up the sky in this photo?

I’ve been using the clone tool with very good results, but it is too labor intensive. It is for display on line, not to be printed. Thanks
in
advance, George

http://gah.ms11.net//Scan14.jpg

If you have a lot of shots similarly affected (is it mildew or just crud from poor attention to cleaning before scanning?) you might want to consider a flatbed scanner such as the Epson 4870 or 4990 as it is now. I have some (far more than I’d like) slides and negs that have been badly affected by fungus and are just a cobweb of fungal strands. These scanned on a Coolscan IV are a nightmare to clean up, read clone up. Scanned on a 4870 the difference is quite remarkable. The fungus is barely noticeable while the image is only slightly worse than the Coolscan scan, in common with the expected results from the two machines. This is without using ICE which is another thing you might like to try if your slide lends itself to it i.e not a Kodachrome. If it’s a one off, messing about in PS is probably your answer. Of course if you already are using a 4870 then, damn, yours is better than mine 🙂

Brian
(the other one)

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