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mfiorentino
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November 24, 2022
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P: (Ai) Spot removal (Sensor Dust)

  • November 24, 2022
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Since LRC is pretty good at finding and marking (visualising) spots, especially when looking at a clear sky, it should be a no-brainer to select those spots automatically. It could be a feature to use in the Healing panel where you could review and remove the ones you do not want to be erased manually afterwards.

 

A kind of "detect spots automatically"-functionality only marking them just as you would do manually. This feature could remove some heavy lifting if you are faced with an image that accidentally happens to have a lot of spots. In the background, increasing dehazing could help LRC identify the areas so that the outline becomes clearer to recognise and then mark afterwards.

 

When looking at a reasonably clear sky, you can see them clearly and want to remove them, so having LRC do most of the work for you would be a huge plus.

 

 

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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August 13, 2025
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
August 12, 2025

Bonjour,

Je reviens de voyage et j'ai encore et toujours le même problème : dans le désert ou autre environnement poussérieux, les défauts dus aux saletés et autres poussières fleurissent dans le surfaces planes et en particulier le ciel -malgré les nombreux nettoyages d'objectifs et capteur-. Quand on a 15 à 30 tâches sur 100 photos, on trouve le temps long à les enlever une par une -malgré des copier coller-. Alors que Lightroom a une option pour faire apparaître ces tâches/défauts (typiquement des petits ronds dans le ciel), il semble qu'un outil de suppression automatisée soit faisable, notamment avec l'IA. Je pense qu'il serait vivement apprécié de nombreux utilisateurs  !

Merci

Participant
July 27, 2025

Thank you!

Participant
June 4, 2025

 

 

Bonjour l’équipe Adobe,

 

Utilisateur fidèle de Lightroom Classic, je m’étonne qu’en 2025, il n’existe toujours pas une fonction automatisée d’effacement des poussières sur capteur — une tâche chronophage, particulièrement dans les séries de photos avec ciel uniforme ou fonds lisses.

 

Des logiciels comme Luminar Neo proposent depuis longtemps une fonction “remove dust spots” intelligente et en un clic, qui analyse toute l’image, identifie les artefacts circulaires et les élimine sans intervention manuelle.

 

Pourquoi Lightroom, outil de référence pour les photographes pros, ne propose-t-il toujours pas un outil aussi simple et productif ?

 

Une fonction du type :

 

  • Analyse automatique des spots de capteur

  • Traitement par lot sur plusieurs images

  • Possibilité de valider ou corriger les points détectés

 

serait un gain de temps énorme pour les workflows professionnels.

 

Merci de considérer cette évolution indispensable pour la prochaine mise à jour.

Bien à vous,

(un utilisateur qui passe trop de temps à tamponner des taches invisibles jusqu’au zoom 100 %)

Participant
May 30, 2025

I have a camera that underwent a monochrome conversion where the person who did the conversion damaged the sensor, or carelessly left some dust under the sensor lid. I have had the camera professionally cleaned since then. It's as good as it can be, but that means there are a few spots that routinely need to be removed from my images.

 

I would love a feature where I could take a reference image of a blank surface and repair the spots, where Lightroom can save that as a profile that can then be either manually or automatically applied to images taken with that camera. I have seen people ask about something like this as far back as 2008. Would be great if it was possible.

 

Thanks!

Participant
February 15, 2025

Instead of syncing removed spots with other photos, let AI to identify the sensor dust to be removed and apply the removal accordingly with a 'heal' or 'remove' existing functions. The way it should work would be similar to distraction removal in PS (like erasing electric cables).  In other words, auto-detect sensor dust without scribbling or circling manually and remove it.

Participant
November 6, 2024

With all of the advancements in AI these days, I feel like there might be a way to auto detect dirt or dust in photos. As much as I wish I was on top of keeping my sensor clean on my camera, sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't notice as I'm shooting and end up taking hours during post processing removing all of the dirt marks. It would be awesome if Lr could somehow detect when there is a dark spot in the sky or ground and auto delete it (or at least give the option to). 

ben446
Inspiring
May 27, 2024

Can we please get AI dust removal.

Single click, adjust amount, before / after, add / subtract, run on single or mutiple images.

 

Thanks

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 27, 2024

You might want to upvote your request as all votes count and the more you get the more likely your suggestion will be considered.

Known Participant
December 1, 2022

Oh, heck yes!

 

I have a really cool shoot done on a very clear day at the beach ... with a 1Ds2 that had a really filthy sensor.

 

I am absolutely 100% completely positive that "AI" can fix those **** spots.

 

Copying healing from one image to another seems like it should work in theory, but somehow LR always manages to mess that up, and this shows up when the client looks at the photo and says "hey what's wrong with my knee?".