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Removing initial dust and scratches with the Dust and Scratches filter

Removing initial dust and scratches with the Dust and Scratches filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Removing initial dust and scratches with the Dust and Scratches filter

- In this lesson, we'll be removing some of the initial dust and scratches with the dust and scratch filter. The reason why we're tackling some of dust and scratches now is because one of our next steps will be to dodge some of the darker areas on the man's jacket here and burn some of the lighter areas on the lady's jacket to regain some detail. If we go dodging and burning right now, what we'd be doing is we'll be enhancing the dust and scratches still further. We'd be making the dark dust darker and the lighter dust lighter, making our restoration harder. What we want to do is make it easier. In order to do that, we do the dust and scratches now. Let's go Filter, Noise, Dust and Scratches. What we're looking for is a fairly low radius. We want to remove the smallest specks of dust. Let's try three. We want to preserve the detail around the dust. We want to preserve the texture of the image. Illustrating that in Threshold, we go to one. We can see that blows out the texture. If we…

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