On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:56:31 +0000 (UTC), "Bill Newton" wrote:
Thanks for all your advice, it’s greatly appreciated. I shall endeavour to do
as you suggest below, although at first reading I barely understood any of it. That’s my ignorance and I need to learn!!
I can explain it in more detail – it’s difficult to determine somebody’s level of knowledge in Photoshop.
The result I’m talking about would be similar to this traditional darkroom method of getting an exposure right:
http://www.davidrichert.com/Moon%20and%20Shooting%20Stars%20 1.jpg …except I’d probably cut & paste a strip from the original and repeat it, so that each strip starts off being identical. Then, one by one select the strip with a rubber-band box and apply different filters / adjustments to each strip so you can tell what works and what doesn’t on the final print.
Try these:
Strip1: Filter/Noise/Despecle
Strip2: Filter/Noise/Dust & Scratches: Rad 1, Thresh 120 Strip3: Image/Adjustment/Levels Move the left hand black slider in towards the center of the graph. So the first number on the input levels box reads 30-40.
Strip4: Leave it alone for comparison
There are some good commercial de-noise plugins that will do a better job (Noise Ninja etc) but I expect you don’t have these.
On a separate tact, you might also want to try this:
Zoom in on the suit part of the image, to 100% (View/Actual Pixels).
Now choose Window/Channels from the menu so you can see the channels dialog. One by one, select the Red, Green and Blue channels and look to see if the red-dot pattern can be seen in the main window (it should appear as a black & white image). If this view lets you see the dots, you can now see when you’ve been successful in removing it without having to waste more paper doing test prints. You can also apply filters to just the one channel (probably the Red) that has the problem by having just that one channel selected before applying the filter.
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