Digital BW, The Print

Polaroid makes a free dust and scratch removal tool that is available 
both as a standalone program and as a PS plugin. It handles both 
light and dark spots and is very effective, especially with small 
spots. I don't know the URL offhand, but you should be able to 
easily find it with Google if you search for "Polaroid Dust and 
Scratch Removal."

- David 

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Here is a quick and effective technique, though not a plugin. 
 After you
have sharpened the image, apply the PS dust and scratches filter 
with an
extreme setting, such as 4 pixels and a threshhold of 8 or so. 
 Save it as a
snapshot, then delete it.  Using the history brush from the snapshot, 
set to
darken or lighten as appropriate, and a smaller soft brush, you 
can very
quickly get rid of dust and other boogers.  Beats the clone tool. 
 Hope this
helps.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:19 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] "dust removal"


> Does anyone know of any packages, maybe PS plugins, that can 
be used to
> remove dust spots for scanned negatives for those of us not 
lucky enough
> to have ICE, etc.
>
> We are sure getting soft in our old age. I remember spending 
hours
> spotting a print.
>
> Truman
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