"Ulysses" wrote:
"Joel" wrote in message
John Stafford wrote:
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Andy wrote:
Hi all,
I have a bitmap image and when I open it in Photoshop or similar I get a lot of extra black dots / detail around the image. Is there any fast way of avoiding this or getting rid of these black dots / pixels.
Thanks,
Andy 😉
Try converting it to greyscale. That’s Image -> Mode -> Greyscale, then File -> Save As -> PNG
I don’t think a poor-quality image will get better-quality by converting to different format. Or the quality would be SAME->WORSE than the original
*not* better
I agree completely and, of course he could use the clone tool i have taken old photos and carefully remove scratches and age marks it is a pain staking job. so he has to ask himself "is the photo worth it to restore"
I have my readet set to killfile all messages from Gmail (too many spams from gmail) so I don’t see and can’t reply directly to the OP.
I can’t see how good/bad the image is, but I can give some option. If the quality is very poor and need to be edited then
1. Switch to 16-bit or 32-bit. I only use 16-bit to have much experience with 32-bit, and I only use this on real poor images download from internet for DVD Label. This mode will help smoothing the edge/channel
2. For printing (larger print) one may want to try Resize Image using PERCENTAGE option.
3. Editing, newer CSx version has Healing Patch/Brush which works better than Clone Tool (in most cases). If the Healing Patch/Brush doesn’t work well then Clone Tool may do the trick.
I rarely use those, but I did use Clone Tool in the past, and Healing Tool as practicing.