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Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

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A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

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Photoshop has two tools that are designed for removing speckles or dust spots. The Dust and Scratches filter, and the Despeckle filter.

They should be on your version of Photoshop, under Filter>Noise.

If you have a specific issue that you are having that for some reason you are wanting to create a Brush, can you tell us, or show us what problem you are having?

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

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The brush in Topaz Photo works very well for eliminating dust and similar

Major Jack said:

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

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Photoshop has two tools that are designed for removing speckles or dust spots. The Dust and Scratches filter, and the Despeckle filter.

They should be on your version of Photoshop, under Filter>Noise.

If you have a specific issue that you are having that for some reason you are wanting to create a Brush, can you tell us, or show us what problem you are having?

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I shoot extreme macro in a glass cube and need to selectively remove dust speckles from the glass without touching the insects

this takes is the most time consuming part of PP my live subject shoots. ive been using the spot remover but it would be more productive just brushing over them.

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

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Here is an example of brushing away dust and scratches in a single Layer.

I took one of your images and turned up the clarity to help with the example. I turned it into a Smart Object, and I will be applying a dust and scratches smart filter. I have it turned off in this first image:





I then set up the dust and scratche filter to remove most of the specs and scratches:





Then I inverted the filter mask to all black:





Then, with the filter mask selected, I brushed with white to selectively and quickly remove the areas with specs or scratches:





Here is the picture of the mask blown up so you can see I just brushed them away:





Just one approach to consider.

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A74Me said:

Major Jack said:

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

Click to expand...

Photoshop has two tools that are designed for removing speckles or dust spots. The Dust and Scratches filter, and the Despeckle filter.

They should be on your version of Photoshop, under Filter>Noise.

If you have a specific issue that you are having that for some reason you are wanting to create a Brush, can you tell us, or show us what problem you are having?

Click to expand...

I shoot extreme macro in a glass cube and need to selectively remove dust speckles from the glass without touching the insects

this takes is the most time consuming part of PP my live subject shoots. ive been using the spot remover but it would be more productive just brushing over them.

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Those are some of the most beautiful images I have seen. Spooky, but beautiful none the less. GREAT JOB.

I would love to see how you are processing those images, and what tools you are using to accomplish that. AND, how much time it takes you to do that. I can only assume it takes quite bit of time with that many specks and that much dust. But, I now understand why you are getting that with Extreme Macro. Other than using some type of vacuum type chamber to draw out the dust, I just can not imagine the work flow you have to go through.

What that said, he is what I tried in Photoshop.

1. I selected the subject and then isolated it from the background on a duplicate layer.

2. I then used the Dust and Scratches filter in Photoshop (for speed) on the ORIGINAl layer to remove as many of the spots and speckles as I could. It did NOT remove them all.

3. Then, Photoshop now has a tool called the Remove tool, with can be used as Ai or with Ai off, and it will then just use surrounding pixels to replace the spots. This step took me about 3 minutes total.

Once I did all of that, I then turned back ON the duplicated layer of the subject, and then focused on any additional spots on the "Spider". LOL.

This is a BEFORE and AFTER of what I did. I did not do anything else to the image. No color adjustments, levels, curves, etc, etc. Just removed the spots and dust.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW to open it up, and make sure you check on the Original size to see the Before and After animation.


Click on image and view ORIGINAL size to see the Before and After.

Finally, again, very nice work on those images. Spectacular stuff.

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Major Jack
"You are welcome to retouch any photograph I post in these forums without prior consent from me". Have fun, and play as you wish.

Major Jack said:

A74Me said:

Major Jack said:

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

Click to expand...

Photoshop has two tools that are designed for removing speckles or dust spots. The Dust and Scratches filter, and the Despeckle filter.

They should be on your version of Photoshop, under Filter>Noise.

If you have a specific issue that you are having that for some reason you are wanting to create a Brush, can you tell us, or show us what problem you are having?

Click to expand...

I shoot extreme macro in a glass cube and need to selectively remove dust speckles from the glass without touching the insects

this takes is the most time consuming part of PP my live subject shoots. ive been using the spot remover but it would be more productive just brushing over them.

Click to expand...

Those are some of the most beautiful images I have seen. Spooky, but beautiful none the less. GREAT JOB.

I would love to see how you are processing those images, and what tools you are using to accomplish that. AND, how much time it takes you to do that. I can only assume it takes quite bit of time with that many specks and that much dust. But, I now understand why you are getting that with Extreme Macro. Other than using some type of vacuum type chamber to draw out the dust, I just can not imagine the work flow you have to go through.

What that said, he is what I tried in Photoshop.

1. I selected the subject and then isolated it from the background on a duplicate layer.

2. I then used the Dust and Scratches filter in Photoshop (for speed) on the ORIGINAl layer to remove as many of the spots and speckles as I could. It did NOT remove them all.

3. Then, Photoshop now has a tool called the Remove tool, with can be used as Ai or with Ai off, and it will then just use surrounding pixels to replace the spots. This step took me about 3 minutes total.

Once I did all of that, I then turned back ON the duplicated layer of the subject, and then focused on any additional spots on the "Spider". LOL.

This is a BEFORE and AFTER of what I did. I did not do anything else to the image. No color adjustments, levels, curves, etc, etc. Just removed the spots and dust.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW to open it up, and make sure you check on the Original size to see the Before and After animation.


Click on image and view ORIGINAL size to see the Before and After.

Finally, again, very nice work on those images. Spectacular stuff.

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that looks great, my problem is i just cant get my head around layers for the life of me ive had a few friends try to teach me but i just cant retain the process. i guess im just going to have to sit and watch a few utubes, and to think i was a systems designer 40 years ago but had a major brain melt down and had to leave the industry thats why i was after a simple no layer solution, anyway thanks for the comments, these images are basically straight from camera i just use a little clarity + dehaze and some selective brightening in ACR as the 300 image stacks are near perfect. to give you subject size perspective the glass is 0.1 mm and i shoot 4 to 15 x all live and moveing subjects. on a special machine i designed and built.

Euell said:

A74Me said:

Is it possable to create a brush that can despeckle in Ps without using layers

Thanks

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The brush in Topaz Photo works very well for eliminating dust and similar

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thanks will have a look

Had a play by opening the same image in Ps twice on my twin screens and just cloneing from one screen to the other , that seemed to work ok, definatel faster than using the spot remove tool one at a time.

Along the same lines, selected the subject. inverted the selection and used the Filter/Noise/Dust and Scratches filter. Any remnants were removed with the Remove Tool. I then made a curves adjustment to add contrast to the colours and and enhance the fine hairs.



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Babine said:

Along the same lines, selected the subject. inverted the selection and used the Filter/Noise/Dust and Scratches filter. Any remnants were removed with the Remove Tool. I then made a curves adjustment to add contrast to the colours and and enhance the fine hairs.

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How did you get the hairs so well selected

A74Me said:

Babine said:

Along the same lines, selected the subject. inverted the selection and used the Filter/Noise/Dust and Scratches filter. Any remnants were removed with the Remove Tool. I then made a curves adjustment to add contrast to the colours and and enhance the fine hairs.

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How did you get the hairs so well selected

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I can not speak for Gary, but my bet is he expanded his selection area after the original selection. You can expand, or contract any selection area by going to SELECT>MODIFY> expand or contract, and then increasing or decreasing the selection area. Now, when you do that, you are going to get all the hairs into the selection, but you are also going to leave a lot of the speckles and dust spots that you must manually then remove. But, using Expand or Contract can help considerably with soft edges, especially hairs.

But, I am sure Gary will tell you how he did it also. As with many things in Photoshop, there are many ways to accomplish the mission, based on the photo itself. In this case, you have relatively good seperation of the Spider and the background for a good selection, including the hairs. The NEW Select Subject tool in Photoshop is fantastic for doing this.





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A74Me said:

Had a play by opening the same image in Ps twice on my twin screens and just cloneing from one screen to the other , that seemed to work ok, definatel faster than using the spot remove tool one at a time.

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My final try.

Hope you don't mind, but I wanted to try one more thing to see if I could get close.

In this one, I cleaned it up basically the same way I did before, but then I added some color, sharpened a tad, and then added a reflection on the glass this time. Just wanted to play to be honest. This one took me about 20 minutes total though.




Click on Image to view Full Size File and Resolution.









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Major Jack
"You are welcome to retouch any photograph I post in these forums without prior consent from me". Have fun, and play as you wish.

Major Jack said:

A74Me said:

Babine said:

Along the same lines, selected the subject. inverted the selection and used the Filter/Noise/Dust and Scratches filter. Any remnants were removed with the Remove Tool. I then made a curves adjustment to add contrast to the colours and and enhance the fine hairs.

Click to expand...

How did you get the hairs so well selected

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I can not speak for Gary, but my bet is he expanded his selection area after the original selection. You can expand, or contract any selection area by going to SELECT>MODIFY> expand or contract, and then increasing or decreasing the selection area. Now, when you do that, you are going to get all the hairs into the selection, but you are also going to leave a lot of the speckles and dust spots that you must manually then remove. But, using Expand or Contract can help considerably with soft edges, especially hairs.

But, I am sure Gary will tell you how he did it also. As with many things in Photoshop, there are many ways to accomplish the mission, based on the photo itself. In this case, you have relatively good seperation of the Spider and the background for a good selection, including the hairs. The NEW Select Subject tool in Photoshop is fantastic for doing this.

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Agreed Jack. The new Subject Select is much more refined than it was in the past.

The hairs were a target for me so I used masked curves adjustments to improve the contrast and applied selectively with a low opacity white brush; high pass sharpening to a duplicate in darken and lighten modes (whichever one did the better job) and applied the same way; using an inversed selection, applied a selective curves adjustment to darken the BG and thereby making the hairs more visible.

Great shot.

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Cheers.
Gary
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