AI Dust removal in Photoshop ACR, Automatically remove spots and sensor dust from photos
Automatically remove dust in Camera Raw in Photoshop. AI spot remover
Some people are very careful and clean their lenses and sensor regularly. Even then, sometimes you can experience sensor dust, or more common, dust or dirt, or water splashes on your lens. It can happen on the front or rear glass on your lens. This shows up as spots on your photos. One step photographers take is spotting. Spotting is when you carefully examine your image at 100% or higher and scan for any spots that may need to be removed. At this point we normally fix the spots in Photoshop, ACR or Lightroom.
There is a new feature that can automatically detect and remove sensor dust in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). This feature isn’t available in Lightroom (yet?), historically, features in ACR eventually make their way to Lightroom.
This new feature is in the mainline version of Photoshop and works on Raw and other formats.
Enabling new ai Features in Camera RAW
This feature needs to be activated.
Launch Camera RAW (Filter>Camera RAW)
Choose the Gear at the top-Right
Go to Technology Previews
Make sure New AI Features is turned on. Although this isn’t in Beta, it is a Technology preview, which is Like a Beta for Camera RAW.
If this option wasn’t turned on, restart Photoshop.
Using Dust Distraction Removal with RAW Images.
In Photoshop, Choose File>Open.
If the Image is a RAW file it will open directly in ACR. If not, Choose Filter>Camera Raw Filter
Click on the Remove tool in the toolbar.
Scroll down to Distraction Removal.
You might recognize Reflections and People. You will see Dust, dust uses the same technology.
Click Apply.
ACR will analyze and remove all the dust and spots, even hairs on this image.
If you roll over the image you will see where the spots were removed. This image was really bad.
(Pro Tip: use this feature to check an image for you and then remove dust manually).
Removing Dust from a non Raw image in Camera RAW.
For a jpg, Open it in Photoshop.
Choose Filter>Camera RAW Filter
Choose the Remove tool. (The steps are the same, but first lets check for spots).
Let’s manually check for spots
Click on Visualize Spots and move the slider.
As you move the slider the image will change.
Move it all the way to the right and you can now easily see the spots in your image.
To remove the spots, simply click on Dust and it does it all for you.
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