Dust, Light Scratch, and Stain Removal - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 142

This method of dust removal greatly reduces the amount of time required for repair (Figure 6-7 ).
This can be extremely useful when cleaning up batches of slides or negatives.

Figure 6-7. Before and after comparison

■ this method of mass dust removal, which we performed on the sky portion of the image, should be
used on areas of unimportant image detail, such as sky and clouds, solid walls (with no patterns), concrete
sidewalks, etc.

Note