JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 21 Posted (5 years 11 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2723 times:
I "tried" finding a similar thread on this subject but either I've used the wrong words for the search or there really isn't a thread on this subject.
I had recently some major sensor dust spots on my EOS 1D Mark II. Now granted, I could see some of them when I was working on the image in Photoshop, yet I couldn't see some of them when I uploaded some shots and they were rejected due to dust spots.
How do you use Adobe Photoshop CS2, to find sensor dust spots? Any particular work flow, or action, filter, etc.....???
Ptrjong From Netherlands, joined Mar 2005, 3479 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (5 years 11 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2709 times:
Note that you have to shift back to the normal view to clone the bastards out - you basically can't do that in Equalize view although there is a way around this.
It's all described in detail in Fergul's workflow which is linked to from the upload pages I think. You should probably digest the whole document.
Peter
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JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (5 years 11 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2703 times:
Well I looked for the thread and I got no reply...........
JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 21 Reply 6, posted (5 years 11 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 2681 times:
I guess not.
I have everything else, it seems of Adobe software.
When I click on that link, it just acts like it is a "bad" url and it won't
open a website page.
TimdeGroot From Netherlands, joined Apr 2002, 3674 posts, RR: 73 Reply 9, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2612 times:
An action to remove dustspots will be presented in the new rejection messages that I'm working on, hopefully this will help many people get rid of dustspots and thus reduce rejections.
JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 21 Reply 10, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 2566 times:
Tim,
Are you saying that you and/or someone else on A.net is making a Photoshop action to help us reduce and eliminate the sensor dust spots? That would be great.
Speaking of that, out of curiousity, are there any actions that users of Photoshop are currently using in order to process their images for better acceptance on this site? Would be curious to see what actions are out there for useage.
TimdeGroot From Netherlands, joined Apr 2002, 3674 posts, RR: 73 Reply 12, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 2553 times:
Ok and here it is
-Create a “Duplicate Layer
-Equalize the image. Image->Adjustments->Equalize
-Dustspots should now become visible. Now select the original layer (called background) to work on. Use the “clone stamp tool” or if you have Photoshop CS2 the “spot healing brush tool” and remove all dustspots.
-Delete the layer “background copy” (which we created earlier”
-You should now have an image free of dustspots.
EDDL From Germany, joined Dec 2002, 737 posts, RR: 22 Reply 15, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2517 times:
Just keep your sensors clean. I don't want to bother with dust spots, it's annoying and time-consuming. I keep my sensor spotless and enjoy doing other things while you are playing with your cloning tool.
Walter2222 From Belgium, joined Sep 2005, 1243 posts, RR: 36 Reply 16, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2475 times:
Quoting EDDL (Reply 15): Just keep your sensors clean.
Living on mother "earth", it's not always possible to keep the sensor clean (although that would be ideal...), certainly if you change lenses very often! It's of course better to prevent (cleaning the sensor) than remedy afterwards (using Photoshop). I check by just shooting a picture with high aperture number (i.e. small aperture) of the blue sky and then - if there are any dust particles on the sensor - the dust spots show up (equalizing is then in most cases not even necessary). If several show up, then it is cleaning time!! I have done it already several times myself, and it is not that difficult (I use a special fibre-brush from "Visibledust", called the "Artic Butterfly").
JayDavis From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 2000 posts, RR: 21 Reply 17, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2463 times:
Thanks for all the tips/hints.
Still curious if there are any Photoshop actions that people use on this forum to work their photos ??
I know Colin Wok (I think that is his name) used to have some actions when digital was first introduced. Does he or others still have actions we can download somewhere?
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 56 Reply 18, posted (5 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2458 times:
Quoting JayDavis (Reply 17): Still curious if there are any Photoshop actions that people use on this forum to work their photos ??
I make actions for almost everything.... Try these...
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