> On May 6, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On May 5, 2020, at 7:36 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> ... >> All dust and scratch elimination software tends to soften the image scanned: >> I prefer to use PS (or software of your choice) for post-process sharpening. >> ... >> There is not much you can do with a really awful shot! > > Very helpful, John. I take you to be saying you prefer Photoshop for > sharpening and dust and scratch removal. Could that be done in Lightroom as > well? My experience with Epson Scan has mostly been frustrating. Not so > VueScan.
Lightroom has tools that make spot removal extremely easy and fast. It's not quite as good on scratches as some of the tools in Photoshop, but I rarely have scratches to worry about. The way you do spot and small scratch removal in LR is extremely simple: - Open the image you want to clean up in the Develop module. - Zoom the view to 1:1 - Press the Home key on your keyboard - Press Q to bring up the Spot Removal Tool - Set the size of the tool to the smallest that will cover a given spot - Set to Clone or Heal depending on what works best for a given situation - Click once on every spot you want to clean up - When done with what's in the view, press the Page Down key and the next segment will come into the view. The Page Down key will cycle you through the entire image, one vertical strip at a time, and go to the top of the next strip when you've finished at the bottom pane of a particular vertical strip. It works beautifully and makes it a piece of cake to spot even the largest image file. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
