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01/04/2007 06:45:08 AM · #1 |
I've just come back from a week in Japan visiting friends and discovered that after changing to my fisheye on the second day of my trip there is a massive splodge of sensor dust on all the photos. Now... I've cleaned the sensor... but that doesn't fix all of my photos :(.
Is there a resonably easy way to fix this or is it going to be nasty cloning tools all the way?
Example:
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01/04/2007 06:47:55 AM · #2 |
Holy Moses! Is that really dust? Or an animal in your camera?
If the 'dust' is in the same place on all the pictures, you might try to record a script to clone it out quickly in all the pictures. The results won't be nice though.
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01/04/2007 06:51:26 AM · #3 |
| That's a slightly zoomed version... but it would be about 2cm wide on a 6x4 print... |
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01/04/2007 06:51:54 AM · #4 |
Depends on what you want to achieve.
For a "perfect" image, you will need to recreate the scene under the splodge. That means cloning tools where there is complex texture underneath (as in your example). Plain surfaces are much easier - heal tools are faster for these.
One thing you might do is create a mask or saved selection (assuming the splodge is in the same place on all images) that you can drag and drop or open for each image onto the splodge - that might help you limit corrections to the right place with ease, or at least quickly identify the splodge.
Images where you have a low f-stop may not need fixing (the splodge will be faded out).
Also - though this may be obvious - grade your images before fixing as you only need to fix the ones you plan to do something with!
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