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Removing dust and scratches

Removing dust and scratches - Photoshop Tutorial

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Removing dust and scratches

We talked a lot about preparing your images for restoration and the importance of saving time and really looking at the content. And before we go into this next part where we dig much deeper into actually repairing your photos, I just want to emphasize that it's really important to think about where the images are going. If they're going to be enlarged, by all means spend a lot of time getting into the nitty-gritty. If they are going to end up on the web, that would mean less time. If they're going to be small photograph placed back in an album, that probably doesn't need as much time either. But before we really jump in there and go really deep on the photos, think about the final destination. Think about the importance of the subject matter, because we could spend hours on this stuff. So, having said all of that, let's start with something really basic that happens with all photos and that's dust and scratches. From afar, this image looks pretty good, and I think its representative…

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