Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If you've got spots, dust, specks, and other nasty junk on your lens or on
your camera's sensor, it's going to show up on your photos, in the same exact
place on every single photo. Luckily, a lot of simple dust and spot removal
chores can be done right within Lightroom (if they're tricky, then you'll have
to head over to Photoshop). However, the advantage of doing it here is
once you remove the spots from one photo, you can automatically fix
all the other photos from that shoot based on the one you fixed.
Other Nasty Junk
Step One:
If you find a photo that has visible dust,
spots, or any other artifacts (stuff we call
“nasty junk”), then head to the Develop
module, because there's a tool there that
can help. In the photo shown here, there
are a number of different spots visible in
the sky, and they're caused by dust on
my digital camera's sensor (I'm really bad
about keeping my sensor clean). Of course,
as I pointed out above, if they're on this
photo, then those spots are in the same
place on every photo from this shoot. I've
circled some of the most obvious spots in
this photo in red, just so you can see what
we have to deal with.
Step Two:
The first step in getting rid of these
artifacts is to zoom in tight, so you can
really see what you're working on (and
so you don't create a new problem—
really obvious retouching). To zoom in,
just double-click on the image, or you
could click the 1:1 button at the top of
the Navigator panel, or press
Command-+
(PC: Ctrl-+)
a couple of times until you're
zoomed in nice and tight (as seen here,
where I zoomed in to a 1:1 [100%] view).
It doesn't matter how you get zoomed
in—just get there. Now you can really
see those spots. Yeech!
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